Original title: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy and its Application Possibilites in ISI ASCR
Authors: Neděla, Vilém
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Workshop of Interesting Topics of SEM and ESEM, Mikulov (CZ), 2014-08-26 / 2014-08-31
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Abstract: The first commercially available environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) was introduced in 1988 by Dr. G.D. Danilat and his company Electro Scan. Prof. Autrata and Doc. Jirák of the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, public research institution, and the Brno University of Technology launched a laboratory operation with the first purely Czech ESEM AQUASEM in 1995. The Team of Environmental Electron Microscopy (EEM), headed by Dr. Vilém Neděla, a former student of Professor Autrata, has continued the nearly twenty-year tradition of ESEM progress in the Czech Republic. The team has studied interactions of electrons with high-pressure gas environments, designed, developed and simulated detection systems for SEM and ESEM and performed simulations of gas flows in ESEM. In interdisciplinary cooperation with various partners the team has developed and tested methods of observation of sensitive, native or live specimen studied under conditions of dynamic in-situ experiments using the today already obsolete ESEM AQUASEM II with directly heated tungsten cathode converted by Dr. Neděla at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic still in his student years. In near future the institute plans purchase of a new ESEM with high resolution and a unique configuration of accessory analytical and other equipment. Thus a new laboratory of environmental electron microscopy with state-of-the-art equipment will be established at the ISI ASCR in Brno. The new laboratory will allow for specimen study with electron beam in combination with optional micro handling, dynamic in-situ experiments with specimen temperature variation from -25°C to 1000°C, or local gas and liquid injecting directly onto the sample.
Keywords: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy; Institute of Scientific Instruments
Project no.: EE.2.3.20.0103
Funding provider: GA MŠk
Host item entry: Workshop of Interesting Topics of SEM and ESEM, ISBN 978-80-87441-12-1

Institution: Institute of Scientific Instruments AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0235964

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