Centre For Advanced Microscopy & Materials Characterization
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Centre For Advanced Microscopy & Materials Characterization
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CAMMC
Equipment
The Centre for Advanced Microscopy & Materials Characterization provides access to the following equipment:
The Centre for Advanced Microscopy & Materials Characterization provides access to the following equipment:
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Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM)
Description
The FEI Quanta 200 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) comes with an EDAX Octane Plus SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) and TEAM software. The ESEM can operate in Low Vacuum for non-conductive samples, eliminating the need for conductive coating. The ESEM has a resolution of 3 nanometers in High Vacuum, and can accommodate wet, dirty, non-conductive and outgassing samples. The EDAX EDS (Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy) TEAM software has the capability of a wide variety of materials characterization modes including simple point analysis, linescans and element mapping (including multifield maps and phase analysis). The facility has a Leica EM ACE600 Carbon Thread Evaporator for when conductive coating is necessary.
Location
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER)
Room # 107
Additional Information:
Techniques
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
Software
- EDAX TEAM Software
Configurations
- FEI Quanta 200 FEG Environmental SEM (now Thermo Fisher Quattro ESEM)
- EDAX Octane Plus SDD X-Ray detector
- Centaurus Cathodoluminescence detector
Resources
(Raman-Atomic Force Microscope) System
Description
The WITec alpha300 RA System is a multifunctional integrated system which allows users to do both Raman spectroscopy and AFM on the same sample, on the same instrument, using integrated software. It also has a True Surface Profilometer and SNOM (Scanning Near Optical Microscopy) capabilities which can achieve an optical resolution of 50-100 nm. The system has a 532 nm and 785 nm laser and is equipped with both transmitted and reflected light sources for a variety of samples. It is also capable of carrying out analyses in liquid and has water-immersion objective lenses.
Location
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER)
Room # 109
Additional Information:
Techniques
- Raman Point Analysis
- 2-D and 3-D Raman Mapping
- Atomic Force Microscopy
Software
- WiTec Project 6 Software
Configurations
- alpha300 R (Raman)
- alpha300 A (AFM)
- 532 nm and 785 nm wavelength lasers
- True-Surface profilometer
- SNOM lens
Resources
Description
The Beckman Coulter Multisizer 4e Particle Counter is an accurate and versatile system for measuring particle sizes in liquid. The instrument uses the Coulter principle to detect particles via electrical zone sensing and has a range of particle size measurement from 0.2 – 1600 μm. Data can also be expressed as particle size categories for mixed size populations.
Location
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER)
Room # 207
Additional Information:
Techniques
- Coulter principle (electrical zone sensing)
Configurations
- Beckman Coulter Multisizer 4e
- Built-in stirrer
- Aperture sizes: 10 – 2000 µm
- Sample volume: 4 – 400 mL
Resources
Description
Leica EM ACE600 Carbon Thread Evaporator applies a thin layer (thickness controlled) of conductive carbon to samples to make them conductive in preparation for SEM/EDS applications. The carbon deposited has no grain structure, so is invisible to the SEM for imaging. The thickness can be controlled and can be applied as thin as 5 nm.
Location
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER)
Room # 109
Additional Information:
Techniques
- Carbon thread evaporation