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 (link)
- Cryo-FIB & Cryo-SEM (link)
- 3D FIB-SEM & 3D CryoFIB-SEM for tomography
- TEM lamella preparation

Tecnai Spirit TEM

- TEM imaging
- Negative staining electron microscopy


Hitachi S-2600 Variable Pressure SEM

- Variable pressure SEM imaging on non-coated samples
- Energy Dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX)

Hitachi H7600 TEM

- TEM imaging
- Negative staining electron microscopy



FEI Tecnai G2 Twin 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