Single Crystal Electron Diffraction

Electron diffraction solves crystal structures similar to how X-ray crystallography works. As the name suggests, the uses an electron beam instead of X-ray radiation. The major difference consists in the size of the crystals: submicrometer sized crystals can and must be used for structure determination. This is smaller than the grains in very fine icing sugar.

Service Requests

• Please contact Tim Gruene.

Instrumentation

• CM200 Transmission Electron Microscope, equipped with a QUADRO detector (Dectris Ltd). The QUADRO detector is a permanent loan courtesy the Swiss NanoScience Institute in recognition of the NanoArgovia Project A3EDPI
• JEM2100Plus (JEOL, 200keV LaB6), equipped with a 1024x512 JUNGFRAU detector (in collaboration with the PSI detector group)