TEM Laboratory
TEM Laboratory
Contact: Elvio Carlino, Regina Ciancio
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TEM laboratory, established during 2002, is part of the Centre for Electron Microscopy (CEM) of IOM-CNR whose equipment includes the sample preparation facilities, the laboratory for simulating TEM images and spectra and the SEM facility. CEM has the mission to represent a EM facili- ty for the scientific and industrial community and to explore and to develop new TEM methodologies to be applied to the study of hard and soft matter. The latter strongly take into account the location of the CME: inside TASC labora- tory and close to the synchrotron storage ring of ELETTRA and to the FEL FERMI. |
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A JEOL JEM 2010F UHR TEM/STEM is installed in a dedicated laboratory on a vibration-insulation foundation. The TEM laboratory is kept at constant temperature with a drift rate < 0.1°C/min, with low noise and minimal turbulence. The microscope demonstrated unique performances in the world and it is equipped by a energy-disperse x-ray spectrometer (EDS) with ultra-thin window to enhance detection of light elements (Z > 5). The scanning TEM (STEM) attachment coupled with EDS can be used to obtain chemical profiles with high spatial resolution. STEM is also equipped by high angle annular dark field detector, and a method has been developed at CEM capable to image the structure and chemistry of a specimen at a resolution of 0.123nm.
