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Air Isolated Transfer System

There are a number of applications where scientists and engineers are faced with air or moisture sensitive samples that require imaging and analysis using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Applications include: components in rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, and catalysts among others. Any exposure to oxygen or moisture in the air can completely alter or destroy the structure of these highly reactive materials. JEOL has built a special air-lock system that can handle the transfer of air-sensitive specimens to be imaged in the SEM without atmospheric exposure.
November 2, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT200, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Variable Pressure SEM 0 Comment Read More >>

Aperture Angle Control Lens

The ability to increase the probe current for fast microanalysis, while still maintaining a small spot size and small volume of excitation for high resolution, has been the holy grail of microanalysis in SEM. One of the unique features of JEOL’s FE-SEMs is the patented Aperture Angle Control Lens (ACL). This lens automatically optimizes for both high resolution imaging at low probe currents and high spatial resolution X-ray analysis at high probe currents with a seamless transition between the two.
November 2, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) 0 Comment Read More >>

Can I Trust My Quantitative EDS Data?

Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) coupled with an energy dispersive X-ray detector (EDS) are used extensively to provide insight into a sample’s chemical makeup. This SEM-EDS technique can provide information on the elements present, their relative concentrations and spatial distribution over very small volumes (micron and some instances nanometer scale).
November 2, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT200, IT800, NeoScope™ Benchtop SEM, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Variable Pressure SEM 0 Comment Read More >>

Choose the Right SEM − Analysis Edition

The holy grail of nanoscale analysis with EDS is to quickly analyze any features which can be imaged in the SEM. However, for nanoscale features this is complicated by that fact that X-ray spatial resolution is typically larger than SEM imaging resolution. Figure 1 shows EDS maps from an integrated circuit cross section at 15kV and 6kV using a W SEM and an FE SEM, as well as the approximate X-ray signal depths at those voltages.
June 23, 2021 Field Emission SEM, IT200, IT500, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Variable Pressure SEM 0 Comment Read More >>

CryoNote

“Visualize the truth” is a hope of researchers who use various measuring equipment. Researchers who use electron microscopes as well have a desire to observe the real structure. But actually, in experiments using electron microscopes, many problems arise: They include damage regions of the specimen when it is cut for the size suited to observation, artifacts due to the staining that is applied to enhance image contrast, deformation caused by substitution of water to resin for withstanding vacuum exposure, and thermal damage to the specimen with electron-beam irradiation. As a result, the visualization of the real structure in the microscope image becomes increasingly difficult. One recommended solution is to cool the specimen, that is, “Cryo” techniques. This “Cryo Note” introduces some of the diversified cryo-techniques. We sincerely hope your challenge to observe the “real structure” will be solved by “Cryo” methods.
February 13, 2022 120kV, 200kV, 300kV, CRYO ARM™ 200, CRYO ARM™ 300, Field Emission SEM, IT800, JEM-1400Flash, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) 0 Comment Read More >>

Designing Better Batteries Through Innovative Microscopy Characterization

Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) support the development of new LIB technologies with morphological observation at the micrometer to nanometer scale, as well as the chemical analysis needed to create high-performance coatings and powders. Ultra-low voltage imaging combined with signal filtering in the SEM allows direct imaging and analysis of battery constituents (anode and cathode) with nanometer resolution. Additionally, one of the important aspects of the analysis is the ability to probe chemistry of the constituents at nm scale (Fig. 1). JEOL FESEM offers the ability to perform microanalysis with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) at extremely low voltages to pinpoint localized makeup of the specimens and, in particular, low atomic number materials such as carbon and fluorine. Moreover, the unique JEOL Soft X-ray spectrometer (SXES) allows researchers to analyze Li.
December 10, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) 0 Comment Read More >>

EBSD Analysis of Materials Utilizing High Temperature Protochips Aduro System in FE-SEM

In recent years with the advances in both EBSD and FE-SEM technology there have been renewed efforts at analyzing nanostructured materials at high temperatures using dedicated specimen holders and sub-stages. Although the techniques for EBSD analysis of bulk materials using heating stages have been well established [1], the requirements for nanostructured materials preparation and analysis obviously differs from bulk materials and can benefit from a miniaturized heater with smaller sample/higher temperature capacity capability [2].
November 2, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) 0 Comment Read More >>

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) is a powerful technique capable of characterizing extremely fine grained microstructures in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Electron Backscatter Patterns (EBSPs) are generated near the sample surface, typically from a depth in the range 10 – 50nm. In order to achieve effective analysis it is imperative to combine high beam current with small probe size to achieve high spatial resolution in a time efficient manner.
November 4, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) 0 Comment Read More >>

Electron Flight Simulator (EFS)

Utilizing Monte Carlo Modeling of electron trajectories Electron Flight Simulator is a software tool designed to make your job easier. It can help you understand difficult samples, show the best way to run an analysis, and help explain results to others. With it you can see how the electron beam penetrates your sample, and where the X-ray signal comes from, for a wide variety of microscope conditions. You can model multiple layers, particles, defects, inclusions, and cross-sections. Any sample chemistry can be modeled.
November 4, 2020 Field Emission SEM, IT200, IT700HR, IT800, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Variable Pressure SEM 0 Comment Read More >>
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