FESEM (1994)
Magnification: 20 X to 500,000 X
Resolution: 1.5 nm at 15 kV
Cold field emission emitter (new source installed 2012)
Accelerating voltage from 0.5 to 30 kV
Lower SE detector, Upper SE detector and Robinson BSE detector
Manual stage: 25mm X, Y 25 mm, 28 mm Z, 360o rotation and -5o to 45o tilt
Load lock: maximum sample size of 50 mm diameter and 20 mm height
Dual CRT 12” displays
Vacuum system consists of oil rotary pump, oil diffusion pump and upper column ion pumps
Haskris water circulation system
Quartz XOne EDS system (2014)
The Quartz XOne software has image collection and live and post-collection data analysis for spectral and mapping
Light element detection from Boron to Uranium
Maxim PulseTor Torrent 30 mm2 detector with an energy resolution (installed) of 126.4 eV (Mn Ka)
Peltier cooled to -30 oC
A PulseTor Torrent pulse processor with Tripp-Lite power conditioner
USB Slow Scan interface
HP-Compaq 64-bit Windows 7 computer with XOne 9.5 software