Sputter carbon and e beam coater Leica EM ACE 600

Description

The EM ACE600 sputter coater is a versatile high vacuum film deposition instrument for your FE-SEM and TEM applications.

Whether you need to

• enhance contrast by a fine-grained metal layer,
• produce nanometer thin but robust carbon films,
• rotary shadow your sample to make smallest features visible, or to
• move into cryo-coating

Application

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Carbon coating as an interstitial layer to prevent FIB milling artefacts and damage. Examples of FIB-induced damage in TEM lamellas. (A)
ACE600 stage after deposition of 35 nm of amorphous carbon. (B) Overview image (HAADF-STEM) of a mounted FIB lamella. (C) Overview image
(HAADF-STEM) to demonstrate the uniform thickness of the carbon protection layer. (D and E) Higher magnification images (HAADF-STEM) of the
sample, showing superior preservation of the surface atoms and layers. (Courtesy images Ricardo Evoagil, Jo Verbeeck, EMAT, University of
Antwerp; FIB sample prepared by Stijn Van den Broeck)