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 Freeze Etching System
CNS ID: HAR-034
Make: Balzers (Bal-Tec)
Model: BAF 400 T
Category: Materials Preparation
Name: Freeze Etching System
Location: LISE - B15K
 
 
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High vacuum coating system under cryo or ambient conditions. Replicas of unfixed viscous or liquid samples are flash frozen and freeze "cracked" or microtomed in system followed by coating of platinum and carbon to create a permanent replica for TEM or SEM imaging.
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Contact Info:
Adam Graham
LISE B50
11 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-384-8912
agrahamcns.fas.harvard.edu
David Bell
LISE B56
11 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-6794
dcbcns.fas.harvard.edu
 
 

05/06/13
New Computational Cluster On-Line
 

05/02/13
LED Measurement System and Integrating Sphere now available! Contact Jason Tresback for training.
 

03/12/13
Quantox non-contact electrical measurement tool commissioned. See Philippe for training.
 

02/20/13
Olympus Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy Hands-On Demo
 

DRIE system on site - available soon.
 

01/18/13
i-line stepper coming to CNS this spring!
 

08/14/12
We bought the k-alpha XPS - it will be staying!
 

05/14/12
We bought the Heidelberg uPG501 direct write system - it will be staying!
 

10/04/12
XeF2 etch system now available!
 

02/21/12
Time Resolved PL Spectroscopy now available
 
 
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