Our equipment consists in one state-of-the art NION microscope dedicated to high spatial and spectral resolution spectromicroscopy and fitted with original home-made developments and 2 VG microscopes mostly dedicated to instrumental development. All equipement are actively used for our own research, and the NION microscope is accessible through our plateform and within the METSA and ESTEEM3 networks.
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Chromatem
CHROMATEM is a monochromated and Cs-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope designed and built by NION based on the HERMES model, and adapted to some Orsay STEM team specifications, making it a world-wide unique machine for electron and photon spectromicroscopy techniques with ultra-high energy and spatial resolution. CHROMATEM will address cutting-edge issues and target new problems,…
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VG Lumière
The VG Lumière (“light” in french) is a VG HB501 devoted to nanooptics and instrumentation development. It is fitted with a new in house made light injection devices for Electron Energy Gain Spectroscopy.
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VG cold
Our first Vacuum Generator HB 501 is fitted with a CFEG which enabled a high brightness, a sub-nanometer spatial resolution and a good (less than 0.3 eV) spectral resolution, making it ideal for medium resolution analysis applications. Although bought 30 years ago, the VG cold has been constantly improved with in-house made instrumentation, such as…