AIBN TEM Facility

The CMM facilities are located on the ground floor of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology building. These purpose built laboratories house four state of the art transmission electron microscopes and a range of sample preparation facilities. In addition the laboratory is equipped with a sophisticated optical microscopy suite with three optical microscopes in various configurations.
The laboratory is designed for easy access and caters for sample preparation in both the materials and biological disciplines. This combination of facilities leads to a synergistic set-up where the CMM staff can provide expertise and assistance in preparing and characterising materials from a diverse range of research areas.

Main Equipment:

  • Transmission electron microscopes
  • JEOL 2100. 200keV instrument, LaB6 filament, STEM BF & HAADF, EDS, XRM, high resolution Orius 2kx4k CCD, with a double-tilt and cryo-double-tilt specimen holders
  • FEI F20. 200keV instrument, FEG, STEM BF & DF, EDS, XRM, 70º tilt, double-tilt specimen holder, Gatan Imaging Filter and digital camera
  • JEOL 1010. 100 keV instrument, wide angle CCD
  • JEOL 1010. 100 keV instrument, wide angle CCD

Optical Microscopes:

  • Olympus BH61 and Olympus DP70 RGB CCD, with fluorescence, BF, DIC
  • Olympus BH61 and Micropublisher 3.3 RGB CCD with BF, DIC, plus Metallurgical objectives
  • Olympus SZH10 stereo microscope and Micropublisher 3.3 RGB CCD

Sample preparation:

  • 4 Leica Ultramicrotomes
  • Precision Ion Polishing System (PIPS) - for ceramic material only
  • Plasma Etcher (Ar/O)

Computers:

  • 3 workstations with a comprehensive suite of off-line processing software

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