Auxiliary equipment

• Objectives: 2.5x, 5x, 10x, 50x and 100x

• Reflection and transmission illumination

•  Motorized stage

•  Axio vision software
  • Mosaic acquisition with alignment and focus correction algorithm

• 15kV acceleration voltage; 20~10,000x magnification

• standard mode and charge-up reduction mode

• specimen traverse; X:15 mm, Y:18mm

• 70 maximum sample size in diameter; 20 mm maximum sample thickness

• high-sensitive semiconductor BSE detector

Not fully tight, useful for manipulation of samples under nitrogen gas flow or liquid nitrogen bath.

• Binocular and illumination source
• Sectioning down to 500nm
• Automatic sectioning speed control                                            

Cryogenic:

-Liquid nitrogen flow (-50 to -120 °C)

-Blade and sample temperature control

-Diamond, Tungsten carbide and stainless steel blades

-Stainless steel and PEEK sample holders

-Diamond, stainless steel and tungsten carbide blades

Room temperature:

-Diamond and stainless steel blades

-Several sample holder adapters

Cryodewar for cryopreservation of safety authorized samples.

The tank has a liquid nitrogen capacity of 72 L for storage in liquid phase and 15 L for gas phase storage.

Static holding time of 120 days for liquid phase and 25 days for gas phase.

4 Aluminum racks can hold up to 20 boxes with 100 2 ml tubes inside the cryodewar

The emitech freeze dryer is available for users to prepare samples such as thin tissue sections or cells. The peltier contact maintains a temperature of -65C at the sample. The vaccum is in the range of 1x10^-2mbar.

Sample holders for freeze drying are available at ID21. The maximum diameter of the sample holder to maintain a good contact with the cold stage is 2.5cm.

• Reflection, ATR and transmission configuration

•  Motorized stage

•  GLobar source (no longer connected to synchrotron)