Electron microscopy at the GI department

This page lists the options for performing electron microscopy at the GI department.

List of equipment

Electron microscopes

• JEOL1400 TEM
• JEOL2100 TEM

Electron microscope sample holders and cryo-accessories

• Quick-change holder (2x)
• Quartet holder
• Single-tilt holder
• Cryo-holder, cryo-dock and cryo-pumping station
• Beryllium holder (for EDX)
• Dual axis room temperature tomography holder

Sample prep equipment

• Safematic CCU-010 coater for glow discharging, carbon coating and sputter coating
• FEI Vitrobot plungefreezer
• Leica HPM100 high-pressure freezer
• Leica EMPACT high-pressure freezer
• Reichert-Jung UC-E microtome
• Leica UC7/FC7 cryo-microtome
• Leica AFS1/AFS2 freeze-substitution machines
• Leica Vibratome VT1000S
• EM KMR2 knife maker
• Balzers BAF400 freeze etcher
• Balzers CPD-020 critical point dryer
• Edwards 306 thermal evaporation coater