Instruments

Transmission Electron Microscopes and Peripherals

JEM 3200FSK
(Excitation energy selective cathodoluminescence microscope)

  • High resolution TEM imaging
  • EELS
  • Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy
  • Hambury Brown-Twiss cathodoluminescence
  • Inelastically scattered electron-photon correlation
  • Photon mapping
  • Lattice irradiation

FEI(ThermoFisher) Titan cubed G2

  • Rapid STEM imaging
    Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
    Electron tomography
  • High resolution STEM imaging
  • EDS
  • Strain mapping (Nano beam diffraction)
  • Precession electron diffraction

IGSES shared facility

JEOL ARM 200F

  • High resolution STEM imaging
  • EDS
  • Strain mapping (Nano beam diffraction)
  • Precession electron diffraction

IGSES shared facility

Specialized Peripheral Equipment

Specimen Holders

  • High angle triple axis holder
  • High tilt cryo holder (liquid nitrogen)
  • Double tilt cryo holder (liquid nitrogen)

Above: IGSES shared facility

  • Strain & tomography holder
  • Double tilt MEMS chip heating holder

Above: IGSES Hata Laboratory‘s facility

※Many of these specialized holders were developed in collaboration with Mel-Build Co.(Fukuoka, Japan)

Anaerobic Glove Box

Reactive specimens can be handled/treated under inert gasses atmosphere using this glove box setup. Then, they will be loaded in a dedicated specimen holder to be transferred into a specific microscope without exposing to the atmosphere.

IGSES Hata Laboratory‘s facility

Optical Microscope

Optical Microscope

  • Photoluminescence measurement
  • Time-resolved measurement with ns pulsed excitation laser (under implementation)

Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopes(FIB-SEM)

FEI(ThermoFisher) Scios

  • Ga ion beam
  • Micrometer-sampling
  • EBSD
  • Cryo stage

IGSES shared facility

FEI(ThermoFisher) Helios 5 Hydra

  • Plasma ion beam sources (Xe, Ar, O, N)
  • Sub-millimeter-sampling
  • EDS
  • EBSD
  • TOF-SIMS
  • Vacuum transfer from the glove box

IGSES shared facility

Sample Fabrication equipment

Gatan PIPS II Ar ion milling system

IGSES shared facility

Spin Coater

Centrifuge

RF-Sputtering Deposition System

Electric Furnace

Drying Oven

Thermal ​Deposition System

Software

ex.) Deep learning-based noise filter created by DragonflyDragonfly

Software

  • 3D reconstruction(Temography, Inspect 3D)
  • FDTD(CrystalWave)
  • Machine Learning & Other Image Processing(Dragonfly)
  • Gatan DigitalMicrograph
  • Custom-developed software based on Python, DM-Script, MATLAB, and Mathematica