The potential of cryogenic broad ion beam milling used in combination with scanning electron microscopy (cryo-BIB-SEM) for imaging and analyzing the microstructure of cryogenically stabilized soft…

Get an insight in the working methods of the laboratory and learn about the advantages of Cryo SEM investigation in EM Sample Preparation. Find out how high pressure freezing, freeze fracturing and…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE900 - Drosophila larvae were sandwiched between two 3 mm aluminum slit carriers with the 100 μm cavities facing each other and high-pressure frozen with a Leica EM…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE900 - A 100 mesh copper grid (12 um thickness) was dipped into a concentrated Giardia suspension and sandwiched between two flat 3 mm aluminum specimen carriers with…

Application Note fo Leica EM ACE600 - A solid understanding of polymer property-structure relationships is critical to improve and shorten development routes to new products. A direct way to determine…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE600 - Carbon support films are routinely used for high resolution TEM. Thickness is one of the main criteria to assess its usefulness for a particular experiment.…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE600 - Focused ion beam (FIB) technology has become an indispensable tool for site-specific TEM sample preparation. It allows to extract electron transparent specimens…

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of tobacco leafs with subsequent platinum coating and SEM analysis.

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of nematode Eubostrichus dianae to detect the ectosymbiotic bacteria layer with subsequent gold coating ans SEM analysis.

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of wall cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) pod with subsequent gold coating and SEM analysis.

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of E. coli with subsequent platinum / palladium coating and SEM analysis. Sample was inserted into a filter disc (Pore size: 16 - 40 μm)…

Application Note for Leica EM RES102 - Thin foils are mostly unstable because of their thickness of a few microns. This makes it difficult to do slope cutting without any protection of the sample. A…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE600 - Recent developments in aberration corrected transmission electron microscopes as well as further improvements in monochromaters and spectrometers have pushed the…

Application Note for Leica EM ACE600 - Much of the battle involved in obtaining good transmission electron microscopy data is in the specimen preparation itself. Even though some nanomaterials are…

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of wrinkled giant hyssop leaf with subsequent gold coating and SEM analysis.

Application Note for Leica EM CPD300 - Critical point drying of Black mould (Aspergilus niger) with subsequent platinum / palladium coating and SEM analysis to detect conidiospores. Sample was…

Application Note for Leica EM VCT100, Leica EM ACE600 - A thin layer of latex paint was spread on a clean, scored, silicon chip. The sample was immediately plunge frozen in liquid ethane and…

Today’s automotive industry use a variety of decorative and functional treatment to improve the vehicles surfaces. Traditional quality control methods to inspect these multilayer samples have proven…