Instrumentation
Adelaide Microscopy houses a broad range of instrumentation, for detailed information and images please see our brochure or the full list below.
For more information on the most appropriate microscope for your samples, please contact Adelaide Microscopy or see the AMMRF Technique Finder and MyScope Virtual Microscopy.
Quicklinks: FIB, SEM, ESEM, Microprobe, TEM, ICP-MS, Micro-CT, Confocal, Multiphoton, Optical, Xenogen, LMD, AFM, SNOM, BET, Sample Prep Equipment
Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM)
- FEI DualBeam Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB/SEM) - The Helios Nanolab
- FEI Quanta 450 FEG Environmental SEM (ESEM) - SDD EDX detector, high vacuum, low vacuum and ESEM modes, cooling, heating and tensile stages
- Philips XL30 FEG SEM - with EDX detector, mapping capability, Oxford CT1500HF Cryo stage, HKL Channel 5 Electron BackScatter Diffraction System (EBSD)
- Philips XL40 SEM - with EDX detector
- Philips XL20 SEM - with EDX detector, Gatan Cathodoluminescence (CL) detector
Electron Microprobes (EPMA)
- Cameca SXFive Microprobe - with SDD EDS detector, 4 WDS detectors, high speed x-ray mapping, Cathodoluminescence (CL), Probe for EPMA software
- Cameca SX51 Microprobe - with SAMx Analysis and control software, Gresham Sirius EDS detector
Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM)
- Philips CM200 TEM/STEM - with EDAX, full cryo set up including GATAN anti-contaminator and cryo-transfer station, GATAN 678 Image Filter, P/EELS, Gatan 832 SC1000 CCD camera
- Philips CM100 TEM - with automated stage, including relocation software, multiple specimen and tilt rotate holder, SIS Megaview II CCD camera and AnalySIS software
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometers (ICP-MS)
- Agilent 7500cx with attached New Wave UP-213 Laser Ablation System
- Agilent 7700s with attached Resonetics M-50 Laser Ablation System
- Agilent 7500cs with ORS for Solution ICP Analysis
X-ray Micro-Tomography (Micro-CT)
- SkyScan 1076 Micro-CT - in vivo high resolution micro-CT system, live animal scanning
- SkyScan 1072 Micro-CT - high resolution micro-CT system
BioPhotonic Imaging System
- Xenogen IVIS 100 - real-time imaging of cellular and genetic activity within a living organism
Confocal Microscope
- Leica SP5 Spectral Scanning Confocal Microscope - high-res imaging, FRAP, FRET and FLIM
Optical Microscopes
- OLYMPUS BX51 - DIC, Phase, DF, BF
- Leica MZ16FA Stereo Microscope - motorised, fully apochromatic stereofluorescence stereomicroscope
- Nikon Petrographic Microscope
