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High vacuum coater/freeze fracture unit

Leica EM ACE600

Technical DetailsSEM coater

    • Equipped with cryo-transfer SEM sample holder (Leica VCT100).

 

  • Supper-coat Au/Pd for high resolution analysis in SEM.

 

  • Freeze fracture to reveal internal structures of a frozen specimen.

 

  • Freeze etching to provide details of the fractured surfaces that were originally hidden by subliming superficial ice layer under vacuum.

 

  • Transfer samples to cryo-SEM under cryogenic conditions without ice crystal contaminations.