The NORTEM consortium offers access to a wide range of TEM instruments with different capabilities and complementarity between the two nodes. The instruments were purchased in 2012 and installed in 2013. The two top instruments in Trondheim and Oslo are complementary.
Microscopes in the Oslo node
FEI
Titan G2 60-300
Detailed information
- Wien-filter monochromator: 0.2 eV energy resolution in EELS (at 200 kV)
- Aligned for 60, 200, and 300 kV accelerating voltages
- DCOR Cs probe corrector: 0.8 Å spatial resolution in STEM (at 300 kV)
- Super-X EDS detector: 0.7 srad collection angle. Windowless design allows superior light element detection
- High brightness XFEG
- S-TWIN objective lens: 2.0 Å spatial resolution in TEM (at 300 kV)
- Gatan 2k Ultrascan 1000XP CCD camera
- Gatan GIF Quantum ER 965 with Ultrafast DualEELS spectrometer and 2k CCD detector
- Omega-q mapping module
- TrueImage Professional package
- Smart tilt and k-Space Control diffraction package
- Remote operation
- High-visibility, low-background Double tilt sample holder, ± 35 degrees tilt in two directions
- Gatan Double tilt heating holder, up to 850 °C, ± 30 degrees tilt in two directions
- Gatan Double tilt cryo stage, -170 to +110 °C, ± 30 degrees tilt in two directions
- Protochips Fusion 500 Double tilt holder with MEMS-based E-chips for in-situ thermal and electrothermal TEM analysis. Heating up to 1200 °C
- Protochips Atmosphere gas cell system: allows high spatial resolution S/TEM imaging, EELS and EDS at ambient pressure and high temperature. Supplies experiment gases at pressures up to 1 atm, temperature between room temperature and 1000 °C at any pressure within operating range
JEOL
2100F
Detailed information
- Oxford X-Max-80 SDD EDS detector, 0.23 srad collection angle
- Point resolution (UHR-configuration): 1.9 Å in TEM (at 200 kV)
- Electron holography Bi-prism
- Schottky field emission gun (FEG). Energy spread < 0.8 eV (0.6 eV attainable)
- Aligned for 120 and 200 kV
- Lattice resolution (UHR-pole piece): 1 Å in TEM (at 200 kV)
- STEM resolution: 2 Å
- STEM JEOL HAADF detector and Gatan BF/DF detector
- Gatan Orius 200D CCD camera
- Gatan Quantum 963 EELS spectrometer
- Holders: single tilt holder, double tilt holders (± 25 degrees tilt in two directions), cold stage holder (-170 to +110 °C)
Microscopes in the Trondheim node
JEOL
ARM200F
Detailed information
- Cold field emission gun with energy spread of < 0.3 eV
- Fully aligned at 80 and 200 kV
- Cs-probe corrector (Resolution in HAADF < 1Å)
- Cs-image corrector (Resolution in HRTEM < 1 Å)
- Centurio SDD EDX (solid angle 0.98 sr)
- Quantum GIF with DualEELS and 2k CCD
- 2k Orius CCD (side mounted) and 2k UltraScan XP CCD (bottom mounted)
- Stable 5-axis gonio with piezo control in x, y and z-directions
- Detectors for BF(2x), ABF, ADF, and HAADF(2x) STEM
- Gatan GMS 2.3, 64 bit.
- Custom designed room with water cooled walls and field cancellation
- Holders: single tilt holders, single tilt reinforced, double tilt holders (+- 30 degrees), double tilt reinforced, cold stage holder, heating holder, enviromental cell/transfer holder, tomography holders and a rotation holder.
- Location: Kjemiblokk 1-U2
JEOL
2100F
Detailed information
- 200 kV Schottky field emission gun (energy spread 0.7 eV). Operational at lower voltages as well
- Gatan 2k UltraScan CCD (bottom mounted)
- Scanning option (STEM) with BF and HAADF detector
- Oxford X-max 80 SDD EDX (solid angle 0.23 sr)
- ASTAR orientation mapping system
- Gatan TEM/STEM tomography
- Gatan GMS 2.3, 64 bit.
- Holders: single tilt holders, double tilt holders (+- 30 degrees), cold stage holder, heating holder, enviromental cell/transfer holder, tomography holders and a rotation holder.
- Location: Kjemiblokk 1-U2
JEOL
2100
Detailed information
- LaB6 filament. Aligned and calibrated at 120 and 200 kV.
- Gatan 2k Orius CCD (side mounted, large view)
- Scanning option (STEM) with BF and HAADF detectors
- GIF system with 2k CCD
- Oxford X-max 80 SDD EDX (solid angle 0.23 sr)
- Gatan GMS 1.8, 32 bit.
- Holders: single tilt holders, double tilt holders (+- 30 degrees), cold stage holder, heating holder, environmental cell/transfer holder, tomography holders and a rotation holder.
- Location: Kjemiblokk 1-U2