Abstract:
An electrochemical cell apparatus is disclosed where the cell has a chamber for containing an electrolyte. The chamber is situated between a bottom and a top substrate. One or more bottom windows are in the bottom substrate and one or more top windows are in the top substrate. Each window has a window cover facing the chamber. The top window and bottom window each have a portion in alignment so that an electron beam passes through both respective portions. A spacer is deposited between the top and bottom substrate and forming walls surrounding the chamber. Two or more electrodes, each having an interior portion that is within the chamber and electrically continuous with an exterior portion external to the chamber, are located on the chamber side of the bottom substrate.
Abstract:
Specimen holder, specimen inspection apparatus, and specimen inspection method for observing or inspecting a specimen consisting of cultured cells. The specimen holder has a body portion and a film. The body portion has a specimen-holding surface opened to permit access from the outside. The film has a first surface forming the specimen-holding surface. The specimen disposed on the first surface of the film can be irradiated with a primary beam for observation or inspection of the specimen via the film. A region coated with an electrically conductive film is formed on the bottom surface of the body portion facing away from the specimen-holding surface. An optically transparent region not coated with the electrically conductive film is also formed on the bottom surface.
Abstract:
A closed observational device for an electron microscope is formed of a housing. The housing includes a liquid chamber formed therein, at least one view hole formed at each of a top side thereof and a bottom side thereof and communicating with the liquid chamber and coaxially aligned with the other, and a film mounted to and sealing each of the view holes. Accordingly, a general specimen or a live cell can be placed into the liquid chamber for microscopic observation under the electron microscope. Besides, the present invention can enclose the liquid inside the housing to prevent the liquid from exhausting outward or volatilization.
Abstract:
An electrochemical cell apparatus is disclosed where the cell has a chamber for containing an electrolyte. The chamber is situated between a bottom and a top substrate. One or more bottom windows are in the bottom substrate and one or more top windows are in the top substrate. Each window has a window cover facing the chamber. The top window and bottom window each have a portion in alignment so that an electron beam passes through both respective portions. A spacer is deposited between the top and bottom substrate and forming walls surrounding the chamber. Two or more electrodes, each having an interior portion that is within the chamber and electrically continuous with an exterior portion external to the chamber, are located on the chamber side of the bottom substrate.
Abstract:
Substrates and arrays that can be used for biological analysis with particle beam instruments are provided. In one embodiment, a substrate for an array is constructed and arranged to be used for imaging samples with a particle beam instrument such as a transmission electron microscope. The substrate can include one or more ligands (e.g., nucleic acids, polypeptides, oligosaccharides, and synthetic polymers) which may form an array. Corresponding changes in labeling chemistry can allow for ligands, binding partners and other relevant materials to be identifiable, quantitatable, and even sequenceable via modified forms of electron microscopy. In certain embodiments, the array dimensions are o the order of nanometers per functional region rather than micrometers as in certain conventional arrays. With these dimensions, smaller amounts of sample material can be use and more accurate genetic analyses performed. These smaller substrate dimensions may also give rise to dramatically reduced production costs, amongst other advantages. The transparency of the substrate, due to thinness, material type and other factors, may provide a suitable contrast ratio of the labeled molecules against the substrate that result in higher quality readings and lower cost analysis than some conventional techniques.
Abstract:
This device is for holding samples during their preparation prior to imaging in the electron microscope. The design means it can be transferred between the light and electron microscopes as well as trimming devices used to prepare the final sample. It can also be used at both ambient and cryo temperatures down to -110°C. The device consists of a base plate that can be held on the stage of a light microscope. It has an aperture through which transmitted light can pass. In this aperture is a clamp which holds a small transparent plastic sphere; the sample sphere. The sample for preparation is bonded to this sphere. The shape of this clamp and sphere means that the sample can be held at any angle to allow for optimal imaging in any light microscope and in the trimming devices, including the ultramicrotome. Once trimmed, the entire universal sample holder can then be transferred into the scanning electron microscope, or held in the ultramicrotome for thin sectioning.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the surface treatment of a fluid product dispensing device. The method comprises a step in which at least one surface to be treated of at least one part of the device in contact with the fluid product is subjected to ion implantation modification using multi-energy and multi-charged ion beams, said modified surface having properties that restrict the formation of a biofilm and, consequently, the appearance and/or proliferation of bacteria on the modified surface. The multi-charged ions are selected from among helium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, and the ion implantation is performed at a depth of between 0 and 3 µm.
Abstract:
A 4D electron tomography system includes a stage having one or more degrees of freedom, an electron source, and electron optics operable to direct electron pulses to impinge on a sample supported on the stage. A pulse of the electron pulses impinges on the sample at a first time. The system also includes a laser system and optics operable to direct optical pulses to impinge on the sample. A pulse of the optical pulses impinges on the sample at a second time. The system further includes a detector operable to receive the electron pulses passing through the sample, a controller operable to independently modify an orientation of the stage and at least one of the first time or the second time, a memory operable to store sets of images, and a processor operable to form a 4D tomgraphic image set from the sets of images.