- Cs Corrected STEM ~0.05nm spatial resolution
- IDES/DE Integrated Compressive Sensing
- CEOS EELS ~0.3eV energy resolution
- 3 CMOS detectors: STEM, EELS, Cryo-EM
- Atomic Resolution JEOL Dual EDS System
- Advanced cryoFIN + LN2 stage
- Operando Gas, Liquid, Heating Stages
- IDES Luminary Micro Optical Excitation
Transformative innovations in (bio)-materials advance by identifying functionality, understanding its origins and optimising its applications. As we move towards ever more complex materials, systems and processes, the ability to directly observe and control functionality on its emergent atomic/molecular length/time scales becomes key to rapidly advancing innovation in all technological areas - as Lord Kelvin famously said, “To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”. The new £4M EPSRC funded JEOL GrandARM 300F2 is, first-and-foremost, the highest combined spatial (~0.05nm) and temporal (~1ms) resolution imaging device available in the world today – it is therefore a unique tool for scientific innovation (available January 2023). These imaging capabilities can be applied over a wide range of environmental conditions, such as temperature (from liquid Nitrogen to over 1000oC), stress/strain, electrical bias, gas pressure, and liquid concentration. This means that atomic and molecular control can be exerted over materials structures/processes under precisely the conditions relevant to advances in new technologies that rely on chemical or biochemical dynamics.
This instrument is housed and operated by the Albert Crewe Centre (ACC) for electron microscopy, one of the UofL shared research facilities (SRF). The ACC links to campus activities in materials synthesis (Materials Innovation Factory), advanced energy technologies (Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy), and AI (Distributed Algorithms CDT).