The Hitachi S-4800 SEM is down for maintenance. We hope to have a technician on site later this week.
STEHM UPDATE:
The STEHM has begun its long trip to Victoria, and is due to arrive Mid April 2012!
In Germany, the correctors have been installed and tested on the HF-3300V STEHM. It has been dissassembled into boxes, and has begun its trip to Canada. Next stop, Victoria! Read about the STEHM in an article in The Times Colonist.
For FIB users needing an easy way to locate a fabrication point on a gold coated glass slide at a later time, either when switching the sample to the SEM, or back into the FIB, we now have an Excel spreadsheet that will help. See the downloads section for the FB-2100 FIB in the instruments section.
When booking the FIB, please book time at earliest time slot available on the day you want to use. Please avoid booking sessions in the middle or end of the day, as this breaks up the usable time on the instrument.
The next SEM workshop is May 15th, 2012. Sign up with our online web form, in person, or by email.
The next FIB workshop is May 8th, 2012. Sign up with our online web form, in person, or by email.
For FIB users cutting features in SiN windows, we now have an Excel spreadsheet for computing the center coordinates of an arbitrarily rotated square. See the downloads section for the FB-2100 FIB in the instruments section.
For FIB users cutting patterns on gold coated glass slides, we now have an Excel spreadsheet for automatically computing focus values, as a function of position. See the downloads section for the FB-2100 FIB in the instruments section.
Read about the Advanced Microscopy Facility in The Ring, the University of Victoria community newspaper.
Read about the Advanced Microscopy Facility in the National Post article published on May 28, 2011.