Overview
To understand the correlation between material microstructure and mechanical properties, ESI provides different facilities capable of reveiling structures down to the atomic level, as well as probing material properties at very small length scales, for example in situ in electron microscopes or x-ray facilities.
TEM JEOL 2100 F

The JEOL JEM-2100F is field emission gun transmission electron microscope operating between 80 kV and 200 kV. It is equipped with an imaging spherical aberration corrector (CEOS), an Oxford INCA Energy TEM 200 EDS system, a high-angle annular dark field detector, a Gatan annular dark field/bright field STEM detector, as well as a Gatan Tridiem image filter (GIF) system. With the aberration corrector, the ultrahigh resolution atom imaging of the crystal lattice can be readily achieved.
TEM CM12

The Philips CM 12 TEM has a microprocessor-based control system, and can operate at various accelerating voltages (20, 40, 60, 80, 100 and 120 kV), depending on the sample and technique used. The resulting image can be displayed, captured and saved via a digital camera onto a PC. The microscope has a cold beam gun which causes less damage to the specimen.
The Veeco Dimension AFM is a large sample platform for almost all standard SPM techniques (topography imaging including phase mapping, MFM, LFM etc.). Replacing the standard cantilever holder by a Hysitron transducer enables the user to perform various mechanical tests on the micron and nanometre scale: instrumented indentation, scratch- and scanning wear tests with high precision and reproducibility, under ambient air or in fluid. In–situ SPM imaging allows exact positioning (10 nm) of the probe tip.
SEM-LEO982

The LEO-982 is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with a field emission gun (FEG) that is dedicated to be used for in-situ micro-mechanical testing at high resolution. Therefore, it can be equipped with different miniaturized loading devices (ASMEC microindenter, Hysitron PI-85 Picoindenter) and an in-situ AFM (AFSEM).
SEM-LEO1525

This scanning electron microscope (Leo 1525, Zeiss) is equipped with a field emission gun in combination with the unique Gemini-lens system from Zeiss, allowing for the significantly better resolution required for the needs of cutting-edge microstructural characterization in material science research. Therefore, the system is equipped with an electron backscatter detection (EBSD) system, EDS, and a various in-situ deformation devices (Kammrath & Weiss or homebuilt).