TEM Specimen Holders
Our specimen holders extend the capabilities of the Transmission Electron Microscope. Conduct your experiments in-situ in the TEM.
FIB / SEM Accessories
Our sample stages extend the capabilities of the Scanning Electron Microscope / Focused Ion Beam Microscope. Conduct experiments inside the SEM or prepare your specimen inside the FIB.
TEM Holder Accessories
To get the most out of your TEM holders use Hummingbird Scientific's selected TEM holder accessories.
Find Hummingbird Scientific at these Spring Events
May 17, 2013
It is shaping up to be a busy spring for all of us at Hummingbird Scientific. Keep an eye for our representatives at the following events!May 20th - 22nd 69th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Microscopy Society in Osaka, Japan.May 22nd - 24th 4th International Workshop on Remote Electron Microscopy and In Situ Studies in Lisbon, Portugal.June 11th - 14th International Workshop on Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale in Xi'an, China. [Read More...]HBS at Materials Research Society 2013 - San Francisco, CA April 1-5
February 25, 2013
Hummingbird Scientific will be at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, California April 2-4 for the Spring 2013 MRS Meeting. Come visit us at booth #307 to learn more about our newest in-situ TEM products and talk to our scientists and precision engineers. [Read More...]Liquid TEM Collaboration ORNL and HBS Wins Outstanding Paper Award
August 7, 2012
At the 2012 Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting, Raymond Unocic of the Microscopy Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with Hummingbird Scientific, received the Birks Award from the Microanalysis Society for the Best Contributed Paper presented at the 2011 Microscopy and Microanalysis conference. [Read More...]Microscopy Today 2012 Innovation Award
August 7, 2012
At the 2012 Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Phoenix, EMSL scientist Chongmin Wang and a team of researchers, including Norman Salmon and Daan Hein Alsem from Hummingbird Scientific, received a Microscopy Today 2012 Innovation Award. [Read More...]Understanding Biomineral Nucleation in CaCO3
With a custom TEM sample holder from Hummingbird Scientific, Nielsen et al. were able to observe, in situ, crystal nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in solution at the nanometer scale. The careful design of the cell and sample holder gave them control over the reaction environment which allowed the researchers to directly investigate nucleation. You can watch the attachment of an aggregate and subsequent transformation into crystal by clicking the image above.
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Reference:
Nielsen MH et al. Structural evolution, formation pathways and energetic controls during template-directed nucleation of CaCO3. Faraday Discuss. 2012; 159:105-121. Image copyright 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry.
Liquid EELS in TEM
Researchers at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory worked with a continuous flow in-situ liquid stage developed by Hummingbird Scientific to obtain electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) spectra from nano-particles in colloidal suspension using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM).
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References:1) Jungjohann, Katherine L., James E. Evans, Jeffery A. Aguiar, Ilke Arslan, and Nigel D. Browning. "Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy for In Situ Liquid Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy." Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, no. 03 (May 2, 2012): 621-627. ABSTRACT Paper and images copyright © 2012, Microscopy and Microanalysis.
2) R.R. Unocic, L. Baggetto, K.A. Unocic, G.M. Veith, N.J. Dudney, and K.L. More. "Coupling EELS/EFTEM Imaging with Environmental Fluid Cell Microscopy." Microscopy and Microanalysis 18 (Suppl 2), 2012 1104-1105
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