FUSION- In Situ Heating and Electrical Biasing Holder for Electron Microscopy

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In Situ Heating and Electrical Biasing Holder for Electron Microscopy

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In Situ Heating and Electrical Biasing

The FUSION products revolutionize the analytical capabilities of electron microscopes by providing the ability to conduct both in situ electrical analysis and in situ heating at temperatures up to 1200 °C, while maintaining the maximum resolution of the instrument.

Download FUSION Sample Preparation Methods

Preparing FIB Lamella on FUSION E-chips
Preparing Particles on FUSION E-Chips
Preparing Nanowires on FUSION E-chips

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Stable Heating and Electrical Biasing

FUSION is a product platform, available for all major microscope manufacturers and most modern TEMs and SEMs.

The FUSION products revolutionize the analytical capabilities of electron microscopes by providing the ability to conduct both in situ electrical analysis and in situ heating at temperatures up to 1200 °C, while maintaining the maximum resolution of the instrument. No other commercial solution enables real-time, dynamic thermal and electrical analysis in a fast, versatile, high-resolution and easy-to-use package.

With better resolution comes quantifiably better analysis and results. You’re developing materials that will change the world, and Protochips is developing products to help you get there.[/text_output]

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Stable Heating and Electrical Biasing

FUSION is a product platform, available for all major microscope manufacturers and most modern TEMs and SEMs. All products use the same consumable Aduro E-chips allowing for correlative studies between instruments including TEM and SEM. Aduro is a very flexible and versatile tool, enabling the thermal or electrical analysis of samples by simply replacing the consumable E-chips that support the sample.

The functionality of the platform is based on the type of E-chip you choose rather than the holder. The unique membrane heater within the thermal E-chip provides extremely high thermal stability and low drift.[/text_output]

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Key benefits

• Electrical and thermal analysis – A single system provides a flexible platform for research
• Direct heating of support film – Very accurate temperature control of sample
• Robust semiconductor ceramic material – Inert, ultra-high stability and low drift, capable of reaching temperatures from ambient to 1200°C in 1ms
• Consumable semiconductor specimen support devices – Disposable design eliminates cross-contamination and provides compatibility with virtually any TEM/STEM/SEM instrument

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[x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]FUSION is an advanced system to heat and electrically bias samples within an electron microscope.The system is optimized to produce heating up to 1200 °C or electrical biasing without degrading the resolution of the instrument. With FUSION, atomic resolution of heated samples is now possible. This video outlines the FUSION technology as well as several scientific applications.[/text_output][x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]This real-time video shows rapid heating and quenching of micron-sized copper-silver particles in the SEM. The video demonstrates how quickly the Protochips FUSION can heat and quench samples, on the order of milliseconds. Take note of the temperature display on the upper left corner of the video.[/text_output][x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]Using the Protochips FUSION System in the SEM, we show Schott glass melting at ~620 °C. Its known melting point is 622 °C. This demonstrates the accuracy of the Aduro heating system.[/text_output][x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]This video shows gold nanoparticles at 600 °C to demonstrate the stability of the Protochips FUSION at high temperatures, as well as its ability to resolve dynamic events with sub-Angstrom resolution. The initial video was taken at 1 frame per second, and then sped up to 5 frames per second using video editing software later. The video was taken in the TEAM 0.5 microscope (FEI Titan, 300 kV, Cs aberration correction, monochromator) at Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.[/text_output]

[x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]A step-by-step demonstration of a thermal experiment and an electrical bias study using the Protochips FUSION system.[/text_output][x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]The FUSION heating and electrical biasing system is compatible with environmental electron microscopes. This real time video shows ceria (CeO2) in a reducing atmosphere of hydrogen at 1.2 Torr at 750 °C. The lattice and surface reactions can be easily seen.[/text_output][x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][text_output]This real-time video shows two gold nanoparticles that are on the surface of larger iron oxide particles at 900° C. At this temperature the gold is very mobile, and the two particles coalesce into one larger nanoparticle. This demonstrates the stability of the Protochips Aduro system at high temperatures. This video was taken on a JEOL ARM200F (200 kV, Cs aberration correction) at JEOL in Akishima, Japan. [/text_output]

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Specifications

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Application Notes

Correlative Analysis in the TEM and SEM (327 downloads )
Melting and Sinter Behavior of Silver Nanoparticles in the TEM (303 downloads )
In Situ Measurements of the Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Silver Nanowires (278 downloads )
Thermal Drift and Settle Times measured for Different Temperature Excursions in the TEM (293 downloads )
EDS in the TEM and SEM with Aduro (288 downloads )
Ion Beam Deposition of Tungsten Metal onto Thin Silicon Nitride Membranes (306 downloads )
PdZn Alloy Nanoparticles on ZnO Nanobelts (284 downloads )
Visualizing Temperature Evolution of Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts in High Resolution (273 downloads )
Thermal Stability Study of LAST Thermoelectric Material in the SEM (290 downloads )
Atomic Resolution Imaging at High Temperatures in the TEAM 0.5 (313 downloads )
In Situ FCC to L10 Tetragonal Phase Transition of Magnetic FePt Nanoparticles (283 downloads )
Atomic scale imaging of 2D materials (322 downloads )
Visualizing the Electrical Switching Mechanism in ZnO-Based ReRAM Devices (308 downloads ) [/text_output]

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