San Diego State University Electron Microscope Facility

Facility Equipment

FEI Tecnai 12 Transmission Electron Microscope

(Purchased with support by the National Science Foundation under grant 030829)

(How it works)

• fully automated and computer controlled
• cryosample ready
• Teitz 214 high resolution digital camera

Hitachi S-2700 Scanning Electron Microscope

• GW Current Probe Meter
• GW Backscattered Secondary Electron Detector
• Oxford Inca X-ray Microanalysis accessory

Leica TCS SP2 Confocal Inverted Light Microscope

Leica DMRBE Upright Light Microscope

• Digital image capture, z stepper motor
• brightfield
• darkfield
• epi-fluorescence
  • Ultraviolet
  • Green
  • Red
  • Far Red
• Nomarski DIC
• polarization
• phase contrast
• video

Nikon Microphot Light Microscope

• brightfield
• darkfield
• epi-fluorescence
• Nomarski DIC
• polarization
• phase contrast
• video

Optronics 'Magnifire' cooled color camera

"Microtome" deconvolution image analysis, by Vaytek

Hummer VI Sputter Coater

Denton DeskII sputterCoater, with Carbon accessory

Samdri-790 Critical Point Dryer

Microtomes

• plastic thick and thin-sectioning
• cryo-histomicrotomy

Tektronic-440 Dye Sublimation Printer

LaserJet and Inkjet printers

Balzers 301 Freeze Fracture Device

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The statements found on the Electron Microscopy Facility Home Pages are for informational purposes only. While every effort is made to ensure that this information is up to date and accurate, official information can be found in the University publications.

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sbarlow@sunstroke.sdsu.edu

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