Brand

Leica LSM Stellaris 5 | acquired 2021

Laserlines (all LEDs)

405 | 488 | 561 | 633

Objectives

• HC PL Fluotar 10x/0.32NA (Brightfield, DIC, Phase)
• HC PL Plan Apochromat 20x/0.75NA (Brightfield, DIC,)
• HC PL Plan Apochromat 63x/1.40NA oil (Brightfield, DIC,)

Scanheads

• Confocal point scanner with speed up to 2600 Hz: 10 frames / second @ 512 x 512
• Resonance scanner with speed up to 8000 Hz

Detectors

4 Hydrid detectors (HyD S)

Environmental

On stage Okolab | Heating unit | CO2 unit | Humidity control

Brand

Light source

Dolan-jenner 420-1000nm | X-cite 120Q

Objectives

Plan-Achromat 10x/0.25 | UPL Fluorite 40x/0.75 | UPL Fluorite 100X/.6-1.30 Iris

Detection

SPECIM V10E Imaging spectrograph with a PCO pixelfly | QImaging Exi Blue

Fluoroscence

DAPI | FITC | Texas Red

Brand

WiTec Alpha300 R Raman Confocal Microscope | acquired 2023

Laserlines

532 nm, 633 nm and 785 nm

Objectives

• 10X
• 20X (Dark-field compatible)
• 50X
• 100X
• 63X (Water Immersion)

Detectors

• UHTS300
• UHTS400

Gratings

• 600 g/mm and 1800 g/mm for the 532 nm laser
• 300 g/mm and 1200 g/mm for the 633 nm and 785 nm laser

Brand

Tescan Mira3 LM FE | acquired 2014

Emittor

Field-emission Schottky emitter | High voltage: 0.5-30 kV

Detectors

• Everhart-Thornley type  Secondary electron detector
• Retractable BSE detector with high sensitivity
• In-Beam SE Detector
• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) detector, Peltier-cooled.

Technical

• Live stereoscopic imaging using 3D Beam Technology 
• Full 5-axis motorized compucentric stage.Computized stage

Brand

Tecnai Spirit | acquired 2014

Features

BioTwin lens | 120 kV LaB6 emitter | 3Å resolution limit

Detectors

Veleta 2048×2048 wide angle | Eagle 4096×4096 bottom mount

Technical

Computized stage | Gatan cryoholder | Single tilt tomography

Condenser apertures 200 μm | 100 μm | 50 μm | 30 μm

Objective apertures 100 μm | 40 μm | 20 μm | 10 μm

Brand

ThermoFischer Scios 2 | acquired 2018

Electron optics

• Non-immersion column
• High-stability Schottky field emission gun at 20 eV-30 keV
• 0.9 nm  resolution at 30 keV STEM, 1.2 nm at 1 keV with beam deceleration

Ion optics

• Sidewinder ion column with acceleration voltage: 500 V – 30 kV
• Beam current range: 1.5 pA – 65 nA
• Ion beam resolution: 3.0 nm at 30kV

Detectors

Up to four simultaneously detected signals

• Trinity Detection System (in-lens and in-column)
  – T1 segmented lower in-lens detector
  – T2 upper in-lens detector
• Everhart-Thornley secondary electron detector
• Retractable low-voltage, high-contrast, segmented solid-state
  backscatter electron detector
• Retractable STEM 3+ detector with Brightfield/ Darkfield/ high angle annular darkfield

Stage

Flexible 5-axis motorized stage with compucentric rotation and tilt:

•  XY range: 110 mm,  Z range: 65 mm, endless rotation (360°)
• Tilt range: -15° to +60°
• Max sample height: Clearance 85 mm to eucentric point
• Max sample weight at 0° tilt: 2 kg (including sample holder)
• Max sample size: 110 mm with full rotation (larger samples
  possible with limited rotation)

Brand

Park systems NX10 AFM

Imaging modes

•  Contact mode
•  Tapping mode
•  True non-contact mode (recommended for soft samples and minimal tip wear)
•  Many other modes are available to measure electrical, mechanical, magnetic, thermal properties, and forces.

System features

•  Enclosed in an acoustic hood and vibration isolation table.
•  Independent XY scanner for sample positioning, decoupled from the Z scanner feedback loop, improving accuracy in nano resolution.
•  XY scan range: 50 µm × 50 µm
•  Z scan range: 15 µm
•  Sample size: recommended ≤50 × 50 mm, max thickness 20 mm
•  Motorized XY stage (20 mm × 20 mm, 0.6 µm steps) and motorized Z stage (25 mm travel, 0.08 µm steps)
•  Magnetic sample holder
•  Currently used only for imaging dry samples

Brand

LS instruments

Modes

Static (SLS) | Dynamic light scattering (DLS) | depolarized DLS | 3D cross-correlation scattering (3D-DLS) for optically turbid  samples.

Laser

Cobolt 05-01 diode pumped solid state laser
λ = 660 nm | P max. = 500 mW | linearly polarized and collimated

Light collection

• Single-mode optical fibres  with integrated collimation optics and laser-line filters
• Scattering angles: 10° to 135°
• Q-range for aqueous suspensions: 2.2 10⁶  to 2.3 10⁶ m^-1
• Two high-sensitivity APD detectors  (Perkin Elmer, Single Photon Counting Module)
• Single processing via a two-channel multiple-tau correlator

Source

Rigaku NanoMax-IQ

Source

Cu-α source (photon wavelength λ = 0.1524 nm)

Detection

SAXS/WAXS camera

Resolution

Accessible Q-range: 0.08 – 33.8 nm^-1