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FEI Quanta 600 FE-SEM

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Capabilities:

The Quanta 600 FEG is a field emission scanning electron microscope capable of generating and collecting high-resolution and low-vacuum images.

Specifications:

Source: Field emission gun assembly with Schottky emitter source

Voltage: 200kV to 30kV

Beam current: >100nA

Resolution:

(measured as gold particle separation on a carbon substrate):

  • High vacuum
    • 1.2nm at 30kV (SE)
    • 2.5nm at 30kV(BSE)
    • 3.0nm at 1kV (SE)
  • Low vacuum
    • 1.5nm at 30kV (SE)
    • 2.5nm at 30kV (BSE)
    • 3.0nm at 1kV (SE)

Magnification:

7x (at longest working distance) to 2,000,000x in single quadrant view of the Quanta user interface on a 10″ LCD monitor

Field of View:

  • Identical field of view in high and low vacuum modes (17mm at longest working distance)
  • 500µm with standard, axial, gaseous secondary electron (SE) detector

Stage:

  • Motorized x-y-z-tilt-rotate stage that provides the following movements:
    • x = y = 150mm (motorized)
    • z = 65mm (motorized)
    • Tilt +70° to -5° (motorized)

Digital Image Size:

  • 4096 x 3536
  • 2048 x 1768
  • 1024 x 884
  • 512 x 442

Equipment associated with the Quanta 600 includes: conventional Everhart-Thornley detector, back-scattered electron detector, IR-CCD chamber camera, Oxford EDS system equipped with X-ray mapping and digital imaging, HKL/Oxford EBSD System including geological phase database for phase ID, and Gatan panchromatic cathodoluminescence detector with RGB filters.

Images can be saved in TIFF, BMP, JPEG or AVI file formats in 8-bit or 16-bit depth to the hard drive.

for imaging services, training or other questions

please contact Rick Littleton, rick-littleton@tamu.edu.

for EBSD services, training or other questions

please contact Hansoo Kim, luminesc@tamu.edu.


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Training Policy: FEI_Quanta_Training_Policy.PDF

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