Category: FEI 200k Titan Themis STEM

STEM in Electron Optics

STEM operator schedule in August-September

If you had plans to use the STEM in the August-September I’ll be unavailable on the following dates:

August 1st – 5th (out of town); returning flight schedule for Friday 5th in the morning I’ll be available for online.

August 18th – September 7th (out of town)

Regards, Erico

Erico Freitas

Research Scientist

Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory

Materials Science and Engineering

Michigan Technological University

1400 Townsend Drive

Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Office: Room 622 Minerals & Materials Building

(906) 299-2714 or efragafr@mtu.edu

STEM Titan Themis unavailable from July 18-22

I would like to let you know I’ll be on vacation from July 18th to 22nd and will not be available to run TEM sessions or training sessions during that period of time at the FEI 200kV Titan Themis STEM.

Also, a new rooftop chiller will be installed soon at the STEM lab and the instrument will be unavailable. I’ll let you know when that is going to happen.

Regards,

Erico Freitas 

ACMAL Facility Closed (Except CIF)

Due to the intermittent power outages, in addition to the planned power outages, ACMAL will be closed for the remainder of this week. The Confocal Imaging Facility (CIF), will be available unless there is another unplanned power outage during the day. 

The X-ray facility will be open beginning Friday morning. All other facilities will be opening next week. Just a reminder, the FIB and FESEM annual maintenance will be occurring next week (5/9 – 5/11).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

STEM Update

Facilities have completed the updates on the rooftop chiller. They add capacity to the system by switching to potable water to cool the condenser side of the chillers. This will temporarily resolve the problem and get us back online until a more robust solution can be implemented.  The technician from Thermo Fisher will be here this week to complete the repairs. If all goes well the TEM will be back online next week.

Stay tuned for more information.