Stage specifications

Stage and sample WITHOUT Volumescope microtome Type Eucentric goniometer stage, 5-axes motorized

Stage and sample WITH Volumescope microtome Section thickness Effective section thickness using MED ≥ 10 nm

System control 64-bit GUI with Windows 10, keyboard, optical mouse

XY 110x110 mm

Repeatability <3.0 μ m (at 0° tilt)

Motorized Z 65 mm

Rotation n × 360°

Tilt -15° / +90°

Max. sample height Clearance 85 mm to eucentric point

Max. sample weight • 500 g in any stage position • Up to 5 kg at 0° tilt (some restrictions apply)

Cutting thickness Guaranteed 40 nm Achievable 25 nm

Cutting speed User-defined: 0.1–1 mm/sec

Cutting window 2 mm

Sample Z travel range 1.2 mm

Sample size 600 x 600 μ m

24-inch LCD display, WUXGA 1920 x 1200 (second monitor optional)

Customizable graphical user interface, with up to 4 simultaneously active views

FLASH automated image tuning for focus, lens align, and stigmator

Image registration

Navigation montage

Image analysis software

Undo / Redo functionality

User guidance for basic operations / applications

Optional joystick

Optional manual user interface (knob board)

Image processor Dwelltime range from 25 ns to 25 ms/pixel (in Volumescope 2 SEM: 50 ns–1 ms)

Up to 6144 x 4096 pixels (40k x 40k with Maps Software)

File type: TIFF (8-, 16-, 24-bit), JPEG, or BMP (in serial block-face imaging: 8-, 16-bit)

Single-frame or 4-view image display

SmartScan Mode (256-frame average or integration, line integration and averaging, interlaced scanning)

DCFI Mode (drift-compensated frame integration)

Digital image improvement and noise reduction filter

Accessories (optional) Sample / chamber cleaning: CryoCleaner, Integrated Plasma Cleaner

Analysis: EDS, EBSD, WDS, CL, Raman

Thermo Scientific QuickLoader ™ Load Lock for fast sample transfer

Navigation: correlative navigation, Maps Software tiling and stitching

Gas injection: up to 2 units (other accessories may limit number of GIS available) for beam-induced deposition of platinum, tungsten, carbon

Manipulators

Cryo-stage

Electrical probing / multi-probing stations

Electrostatic beam blanker