Electron Microscopies

The electron microscopy technical platform possesses three TEM, a sample preparation room, one SEM and one EPMA.

Main technical features

• a complete electronic tomography image acquisition system to acquire tomograms in TEM, EFTEM and STEM mode and rebuild them using DigitECT software from Digat and Gatan Digital Micrograph. We have a sample holder for tomography simple tilt cryo.
• a waterproof cryo transfer case for the study of flammable or air sensitive materials in the microscope.
• an electronic diffraction mapping (ACOM) system which allows the acquisition of crystal orientation maps and phases at scales down to nanometers.
• an Erlangshen ES500 CCD camera on a JEOL 2000EX
• a Gatan PIPS cooled ionic thinning device and a Solarus Gatan plasma cleaner.
• an Olympus Erlangshen CCD camera on MET Akashi HR.

Sample preparation

Sample preparation systems:

• Automatic and manual mechanical polishing systems.
• Ionic thinning Gatan: Duo-Mill et PIPS.
• Dimpler Gatan.
• Electrolytical thinning of specimens for examination in a transmission electron microscope Struers Tenupol 3 and 5.
• Leica Ultracut UCT Cryo UltraMicrotome .
• Electro-Spark Erosion Machine
• Low Speed Precision Saw Buehler Isomet

Access conditions

Accessibility open to academic and private partners, services established on official CNRS costs and invoiced according to the status of the partner.

Contact 

Eric Leroy : leroy@icmpe.cnrs.fr