The consortium approach allows SuperSTEM to provide access to cutting-edge aberration corrected instruments at the following locations:
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SuperSTEM Site
Microscopes
SuperSTEM 1
VG HB 501 with Mark II Nion Cs corrector
- C3 Nion QO corrector for sub-1.0Å probes with 80pA current
- 40-100kV cold FEG emitter with 0.3eV energy spread
- BF/MAADF/HAADF detectors: 0-6/35-100/70-210mrad collection angles
- UHF Enfina spectrometer with multipole coupling up to 19mrad EELS collection
- Ex-situ gas reaction cell
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SuperSTEM 2
Nion UltrastemTM 100
- C5 Nion QO corrector, full correction up to six-fold astigmatism C5,6
- 40-100kV cold FEG emitter with 0.3eV energy spread
- Flexible post-specimen optics for large EELS collection angles and flexible imaging detector setup
- Ultrastable x, y, z sample stage with multi-holder in-vacuum magazine for convenient loading
- ±35° tilt angle in 2 directions
- UHV Enfina EELS spectrometer
- Bruker SSD EDS detector (0.13sr solid angle)
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Sample Finishing
- Gatan DuoMill600 with oil-free vacuum system
- Fischione Model 1020 plasma cleaner
- Turbo-backed vacuum oven with accurate temperature regulation for ex-situ bakes of samples
- Emitech K950X carbon coater/evaporator with film thickness monitor for depositing material and carbon coating samples prone to charging
- Cemm CoatMaster for masking regions of interest during carbon coating
- Fumehood with common laboratory solvents
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Computer Cluster
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Streamline Opteron Cluster 'Helium'
- 20 Opteron "Santa Rosa" 2.2Ghz CPUs ( Socket F Model 2214, 2MB)
(10x Dual, dual core nodes)
- 40 GB RAM
(4GB per node)
- 3 TB RAID user filestore
- HP Procurve 1400 24 port GigE Switch
- SUSE Linux
- Sun Grid Engine
- Portland Group Compiler
- UPS
- 1 master:
- Supermicro AS-2021M-T2RB 2U chassis
- Supermicro H8DME-2 Motherboard
- 4GB RAM
- 2x 250Gb system drive + user filestore
- 9 slaves:
- Supermicro 1U AS-1021M-T2B Super Server chassis 1U chassis
Supermicro H8DMR-i2 Mainboard motherboards
- 4GB RAM
- 80GB drive
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website contact: dorothea@superstem.org |
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