Electron Microscopes

The Bioimaging Facility is equipped with three transmission electron microscopes (FEI Tecnai G2, Hitachi H7600 and Tecnai Spirit) and 2 scanning electron microscopes (Hitachi S2600 and Zeiss XB350).

Zeiss Crossbeam350 FIB-SEM

- Standard Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling
- Standard SEM imaging with a field emission gun
- Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis
- Cryo-FIB & Cryo-SEM
- 3D FIB-SEM & 3D CryoFIB-SEM for tomography
- TEM lamella preparation

FEI Tecnai G2 Twin 200kV TEM

- Maximum Resolution: 1.4 Å with 200kV LaB6 filament
- Conventional TEM imaging
- Cryo-TEM
- 3D electron tomography
- Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) with iCorr system

Tecnai Spirit 120kV TEM

- TEM imaging
- Negative staining electron microscopy