Electron diffraction facility

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About the Electron diffraction facility

天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 electron diffraction facility enables single-crystal structure analysis of crystallites too small for single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) experiments.

We can obtain data from grains well below 1 micrometre and determine their crystal structure in an analogous way as is used in SCXRD.

Measurements are conducted using the continuous rotation method, allowing rapid data collections.

Compounds across a wide range of research areas can be used, including, but not limited to: 

  • small organics
  • natural products
  • metalorganic complexes porous materials
  • inorganics

Data collections can be performed routinely from 100 Kelvin (K) to room temperature (rt). Additional elemental analysis of the crystals of interest is available using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). 

天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 specialists have more than 20 plus years’ experience in materials characterisation, material science and electron microscopy. 

Technical specification

Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-ED

  • LaB6 (Lanthanum Hexaboride) electron gun up to 200 kilovolt (kV)
  • high-speed, high-sensitivity photon-counting Rigaku HyPix-ED hybrid pixel array detector
  • JEOL JED-2200 energy-dispersive spectrometer

 

Holders

  • JEOL standard transmission electron microscope (TEM) holder with high-tilt retainer - rt experiments
  • Gatan Elsa cryogenic holder - rt to 100 K experiments
  • Hummingbird in situ gas-cell and heating holder  

 

Contact us

Contact us

For more information, please contact us using the email addresses below

Professor Simon Coles

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, Highfield Campus, 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, SO17 1BJ 

Dr Mark Light

Dr Daniel N Rainer

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