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Facilities

The capabilities and equipment available at Cardiff Catalysis Institute's Electron Microscope Facility.

The custom-built facility will house the Institute’s existing suite of analytical electron microscopes including a Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG-SEM) and a Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) both equipped with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX).

In early 2022 the facility will take delivery of a new aberration corrected ThermoFisher Spectra 200 scanning transmission electron microscope fitted with X-EDS, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and in-situ analysis capabilities.

Electron microscopes

Transmission Electron Microscope

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)

A JEM-2100 LaB6 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM).

Tescan Maia3 Field Emission Gun

Tescan MAIA-3 Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG-SEM)

High resolution Scanning Electron Microscope with X-EDS, EBSD, SE, BSE and STEM.

Sample preparation equipment

Quorum Q150T ES Sputter coater

Quorum Q150T ES Sputter coater

Automated sample coating and glow discharge.

Thermo-FEI Vitrobot Plunge Freezer Mark IV

Thermo-FEI Vitrobot Plunge Freezer Mark IV

Automated sample preparation for cryo-EM.