Protrain Series of Electron Microscopy Short Courses

Monitoring and Maintaining Electron Microscope Performance

This e-book is a must for anyone looking after an electron microscope. The book covers all the areas that will help an operator to judge a problem, fix it themselves, or have the correct information to be able to talk knowledgeably to service staff over the phone in order to decide a course of action.

Not just a maintenance course but a course that has been designed to lead an operator through all that is required to fully understand an SEM, a TEM and an EDS system. The CD covers the way the units of the SEM and TEM columns work, gun, lenses and deflection coils, as well as the structure of the EDS detector. Then it moves on to discuss the components of the vacuum system how they work and how they relate to each other when in operation. A short section covers the components and the structure of the components, circuit diagrams, and electronics. The course then moves on to two chapters where the alignment of the microscopes is outlined in detail. The following chapter covers the basic maintenance of the instruments, removing parts from the microscopes, cleaning and general maintenance procedures appropriate for the gun, column liners, scintillators, screens, filament alignment and flaming apertures, amongst other points. The course then moves on to discuss the monitoring of performance in SEM, TEM and EDS systems, resolution, and the calibration of magnification, drift rate and contamination rate. The chapter including general advice on high resolution operation of the microscopes and the desired settings for performance. The next chapters deal with analyzing instrument performance, problems that arise with the instruments with a view to understanding the problem and finding a fix. There follows a chapter on fine tuning the instrument set up. The final chapter deals with typical problems found in SEM, TEM and EDS systems and routes to their solutions, here we include emergency procedures for window failure on an EDS system as well as solutions to many of the day to day instrument hiccups.

	SPI #	Each		In Stock
Monitoring and Maintaining Electron Microscope Performance CD	09301-AB	$ 237.00		Yes

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