Laboratory design for high-performance electron microscopy
Journal Article
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· Microscopy Today
OSTI ID:860305
Proliferation of electron microscopes with field emission guns, imaging filters and hardware spherical aberration correctors (giving higher spatial and energy resolution) has resulted in the need to construct special laboratories. As resolutions improve, transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEMs) become more sensitive to ambient conditions. State-of-the-art electron microscopes require state-of-the-art environments, and this means careful design and implementation of microscope sites, from the microscope room to the building that surrounds it. Laboratories have been constructed to house high-sensitive instruments with resolutions ranging down to sub-Angstrom levels; we present the various design philosophies used for some of these laboratories and our experiences with them. Four facilities are described: the National Center for Electron Microscopy OAM Laboratory at LBNL; the FEGTEM Facility at the University of Sheffield; the Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences at TSRI; and the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory at ORNL.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Basic EnergySciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory DE-AC05-00OR22725; NationalInstitutes of Health. National Center for Research Resources P41 ProgramRR27573
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 860305
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--54925; BnR: KC0201010
- Journal Information:
- Microscopy Today, Journal Name: Microscopy Today Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 12
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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