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Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Suite

Launched in March 2013, this is a commercial service for advanced materials characterisation offering brand new high-resolution TEM system: JEOL 2100 for both external and internal users.

The state-of-the-art instrument features;

  • high-resolution Gatan digital camera with resolution 0.2 nm, capable of detailed observation and measurements of crystal lattice
  • dark field (HAADF detector) imaging in STEM mode
  • 3D tomography with high-stability goniometer stage specifically tuned for high-tilt tomographic applications
  • EDS elemental analysis with elemental mapping and line scan capability
  • CRYO imaging at -175 oC.

Equipment

Name Make/Model Details
TEM Microscope JEOL JEM-2100 TEM Morphogical, structural and chemical analysis (nanostructure analysis).

Get in touch

Dr Mahmoud Akhtar

Email
akhtarm@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 0680

Location

  • Main Building
    Park Place
    CF10 3AT