Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Vacuum impregnation system, specially designed for impregnated of porous materials.

Carbon coater machine

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

To avoid the charge of non-conductive samples, the coated machine deposits 
carbon on the sample for MEB or MET observation

Cryo ultra microtome

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Equipment for making ultrafine cuts at low temperatures using diamond knives.

 Applications: Polymer sections for TEM, powder dispersed in a resin

Dimpler

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

he Dimpler is a precision instrument used for grinding circular dimples in the surface of materials. The Dimpler The sample is placed on a horizontal plane rotating around a vertical axis and a grinding wheel rotating
 around a horizontal axis. The dimple technique produces with minimal damage a thin region
 in the disk (thickness less than 50 μm) while leaving a relatively thick support border surrounding the thin
region and thus providing a very robust sample. A chemical or ionic thinning then makes it possible 
to obtain large transparent areas.


Applications:
Many materials can be dimpled: ceramics, metals, minerals, glasses, minerals, multi-phase materials,
 composites etc.

Ion polishing system PIPSI

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

PIPSI is a ion polishing machine that works by ion thinning at a very small angle (between 0 and 10 °). The low spray angles have the advantage of minimizing the damage caused by irradiation and beam heating while at the same time producing samples with electron-transparent areas with minimal artefacts. Ability to work at low temperatures.

Applications:

TEM preparation for many materials: ceramics, metals, minerals ...

Ion polishing system GATAN DUO MILL

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

The GATAN DUO MILL 600 DIF model is used for the final stage of sample preparation for transmission electron microscopy. The sample is thinned on both sides by means of an argon ion beam.

The acceleration voltage, the ionic current and the angle of incidence varying from 0 to 40 ° can be selected according to the properties of the sample material. Pre-thinned samples are bombarded until perforation or until the sample becomes electron-transparent. Ability to work at low temperatures for fragile materials.

Applications:

Thin slimming and large area of thinning for ceramics, metals, minerals

ISOMET LOW SPEED BUEHLER

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Small slow speed chainsaw for cutting materials with a diamond disc

Knifemaker

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Allows you to make glass knives for ultra microtome cuts

Metals coated machine: Precision Etching and Coating System (PECS)

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

PECS deposits extremely thin metal coatings on samples for both SEM and TEM observations.
The target material is bombarded by two argon ion beams accelerated to about 8 kV. 
The ejected target material then strikes the surface of the sample which is rotated at different angles
 during the coating process. The thickness of the deposit can be controlled.

 Application: Coated of chrome deposit, carbon, platinum ...

Microtome

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Equipment allowing to make cuts of order 5 to 120μm at room temperature.

Application: Polymers

Optical microscope :Olympus BX70

Research team: Staff.

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Reflected and transmitted light, camera,polarizer, DIC

Optical Microscope Olympus BH2

Research team: Staff.

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Optical microscope with transmitted light and polarizer

Precision Polishing system PIPSII

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

This is a second-generation of ionic polishing system for the preparation of samples for the MET.
 Each gun can work from 0.1-8 kV with an inclination angle of ± 10 ° and are motorized.
 The PIPS is equipped with a displacement plate in X and Y of the sample for precise positioning of the target 
area. The system is also equipped with a cold module to thin temperature sensitive materials. 
IT is equipped with a Zoom digital microscope with a computer control system of Digital Micrograph
 for in situ observation of sample.
Application:
Cleaning FIB lamella

SEM-FlexSem1000

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

The FLEXSEM 1000 is a compact variable pressure MEB that offers the performance of a conventional SEM.
 It is equipped with SE, BSE and EDX detectors

 - Thermionic emission: Tungsten filament

- Adjustable acceleration voltage from 1 keV to 20keV

-Resolution with SE sensor: 4nm at 20kV, - Resolution with BSE detector: 5nm at 20kV

- Possibility to work at low pressure from 6 Pa to 100 Pa

- Motorized stage with continuous movements on 5 axes: X, Y, Z, R, T

- Observations of fine, massive, dry, fatty, hydrated samples, without prior preparation

- Possible increase up to x 60,000

Semi-automatic polisher:Multiprep

Contacts: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET, Maya MARINOVA.

The MULTIPREP allows the precise polishing of samples to be analyzed by microscopic (optical, SEM, MET etc.).
 Possibility of parallel polishing, angle polishing. Two micrometers allow precise adjustments of the tilt 
of the sample  relative to the abrasive plane

Ultra microtome

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Equipment for making ultrafine sections at room temperature with diamond knives.

Applications: Polymer sections for TEM, powder dispersed in a resin

Ultrasonic Cutter

Platform: Electron Microscopy Platform (PMEL).

Contact: Anne-Marie BLANCHENET.

Equipment for ultrasonically cutting discs 3 mm in diameter.

 

Applications: hard metals, mineral ceramics