Applications and Uses

• enhance contrast by a fine-grained metal layer
• produce nanometer thin but robust carbon films
• rotary shadow your sample to make smallest features visible

Coating Capabilities

• different coating methods sputtering, carbon thread, carbon rod and e-beam evaporation with up to two methods can be used at the same time in the same instrument
• angled sources attached to a metal vacuum chamber and a rotating stage to allow evenly distributed films on a stage size over 100mm
• can be upgraded into a coater with a cryo-stage to perform freeze fracture application
• fully automated coating process ensures that the conditions are the same for each run
• a special solution of valves ensure an accurate and stable Argon pressure during sputter coating together with a quartz crystal thickness measurement in the middle of the stage, gives full control over the result
• pre-vacuum level, main contributor to the granularity for a coated layer, can be set to a low 10-6mbar (even less is possible) value for high resolution imaging or to the 10-4mbar range, to process a sample very fast
• ultrathin, robust and stable Carbon coating system using adaptive pulsed carbon thread method
• low angle coating technique to create visible shadow on the sample using the angled e-beam source together with a motorized 3-axis movable stage