TEM - FEI Tecnai G2 Spirit (Irchel)

The FEI Tecnai G2 Spirit is a 120 kV transmission electron microscope equipped with two digital CCD cameras for image acquisition and diffraction analysis, scanning transmission electron microsopy option with corresponding detector, as well as Oxford EDX system for elemental analysis.

University Zurich, Irchel Campus, Room Y42-H-95. 

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Electron column

LaB6 electron source.

Acceleration voltage: 40 to 120 kV (aligned for 120 kV).

Detector Systems

Side mounted digital camera Gatan Orius 1000 (4k x 2.6k pixels). 14 bit. Pixel size 9 µm. Frame rate up to 14 fps at binning 4. Exposure time between 1 ms and 1000 s.

Bottom mounted digital camera FEI Eagle (4k x 4k pixels).

High angle annular dark field detector (HAADF) for scanning transmission electron microscopy

Oxford X-Max EDX detector.

Accessories

Goniometer: 4-axis, fully motorized stage.

Gatan cryo-holder for cryo electron microscopy.

Specific EDX holder with Be tip.

System controls

FEI control software.

Gatan Digital micrograph for image acquisition.

Oxford Inca for EDX operation and control.

FEI Xplore 3D – Batch Tomography and Dual Axis Tomography package

Literature and Links

Electron Microscopy, Methods and Protocols,Third Edition 2014 Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1117 Kuo, John (Ed.) ISBN: 978-1-62703-775-4

Funktionelle Ultrastruktur, Atlas der Biologie und Pathologie von Geweben, Author(s): Pavelka, Margit, Roth, Jürgen, 2005 ISBN: 3-211-83563-6

Biomedical Electron Microscopy, Illustrated Methods and Interpretations, Author(s): Arvid B. Maunsbach and Björn A. Afzelius, ISBN: 978-0-12-480610-8

Tecnai Spirit Description (PDF, 251 KB)

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