Facilities
Electron Microscope Facilities
MCEM supports four transmission electron microscopes, three scanning electron microscopes and a dual beam focussed ion beam (FIB) microscope, as well as a broad range of instrumentation for sample preparation and data analysis.
These microscopes are housed in an award-winning building designed to provide exceptional mechanical, thermal and electro-magnetic stability to optimise instrument performance. This is one of the most stable such buildings worldwide.
Transmission electron microscopes
Scanning electron microscopes/Dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) microscope
Specimen preparation equipment
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Software
| Software | Computer platform |
Amira v5, several copies | PC |
Bruker Esprit V2.1 EDS X-ray analysis software (on SEMs and TEMs and multiple off-line copies) | PC |
Latest versions of CrystalMaker, SingleCrystal, CrystalDiffract (Available for download from Monash Software Centre) | Mac and PC |
EDAX TEAM software V8/TSL OIM EBSD Suite (on microscope and off-line) | PC |
FEI TEM Imaging & Analysis software (TIA) | PC |
FIJI/Image J | PC |
Gatan Digital Micrograph V1 and V2 (on microscopes and multiple off-line copies) | PC |
HKL Channel 5 EBSD Suite (on microscope and off-line) | PC |
HREM software for Gatan DigitalMicrograph: SmartAlign with Template Matching; Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MSA); FFT-Multislice Simulation Suite; Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA); Image Processing Utility (IPU) plug-in | PC |
ICSD crystal database provided by FIZ Karlsruhe, several licences | Online |
IDL, multiple licences | PC |
Image and diffraction pattern simulation programs based on Multislice and Bloch wave methods (public domain and in-house) | PC |
JEMS for simulation of diffraction patterns and images, multiple copies | PC |
Mathematica (Available for download from Monash Software Centre) | PC |
Matlab (Available for download from Monash Software Centre) | PC |
Monte Carlo simulation of electron trajectories and X-ray production (Casino, WinXray and in-house) | PC |
muSTEM electron scattering simulation suite, multiple copies | PC |
Oxford AZtec V5 EDS and EBSD analysis software (on microscope and multi-seat network licence) | PC |
PDF4 ICDD Crystal Database (available in the Monash X-ray Platform) | PC |
TeamViewer | PC and Mac |
VASP (Vienna ab-initio simulation program) licence | Linux |
WEIN2K | Fortran 90 compiler |
* In-house software for elastic and inelastic electron scattering calculations for the interpretation of CBED, STEM, Phase Contrast images, EELS and EDX based on Multislice and Bloch Wave algorithms.