"New" Environmental SEM in the NC EMAL

Live Webcam of the North Campus EMAL XL30ESEM

View of the Philips/FEI XL30 ESEM in room 422 of the North Campus EMAL. The image is brought to you via an Axis 206 Network Camera.

The XL30ESEM that has been installed in the North Campus EMAL was donated by the Ann Arbor Research and Development Labs of Pfizer Inc.

This instrument is a Philips (now FEI) XL30ESEM. It is a tungsten filament based instrument capable of imaging in high vacuum mode and environmental mode (upto ~10Torr). It has an Everhart-Thornley secondary electron detector, a gaseous secondary electron detector (GSED), and a solid-state backscattered electron (BSE) detector. An embedded EDAX XEDS system and Oxford Instruments (now Gatan) cryo stage are also available.

It is described in more detail on the EMAL instrument webpages.

Rules for the use of this ESEM.

1. Anyone who is trained to use the XL30FEG may use it. Is is slightly different in operation, since it is not a field emission gun instrument. However, it is not sufficient to warrant separate training.
2. There is no advanced booking on this instrument.
3. Users may come into the lab and book up to two hours of time on any given day. A day booking sheet is available at the microscope.
4. If the scope is not in use users may start to use it at anytime.
5. If the user that had booked it for that time is not in the building any user may then use it for up to two hours.
6. If no one is booked after a user has finished a two hour session then the current user may continue to use it until the next user who has booked arrives or a user arrives and requests to use the equipment, it that time the user who has used more than two hours must vacate the instrument.
7. These rules are intended to provide an instrument that may be accessed more readily for "emergency" use.
8. If there are problems with these rules they may be modified in the future.
9. Please check the webcam to determine if the instrument is free.

Other SEMs on campus
SEM Users, for medium resolution work, don't forget the Hitachi S3200N (Central Campus) & the XL30 Tungsten in MS&E. Also, remember that the FIB Dualbeam systems are SEMs. The Nova is the highest resolution SEM on campus (1.1nm) and the Quanta is an Environmental SEM (ESEM).