Environmental scanning electron microscope
Made 1978
Summary
2010/26/1
Environmental scanning electron microscope, prototype, steel / aluminium / plastic / rubber/ glass, modified JEOL JSM2 (1968), made by Dr Gerry Danilatos, Australia, 1978 - 2003
The ESEM consists of five main components and numerous accessories. (1) The main console rack houses the electron optical column and specimen chamber. A high-tension electric cable is attached to the top of the electron optical column. The high-tension power supply, in the lower part of the console rack, has inlet and outlet ports for cooling water. An evacuation port attaches the specimen chamber to the two (2 and 3) rotary vacuum pumps.
(4) The display and operation system houses the electronic controls for the electron beam, detection devices and imaging systems, such as cathode ray tube viewing screen, and a Polaroid camera to photograph the television image. (5) A power supply box provides stabilised power to the display and operation system.
Accessories include metal and plastic specimen holders that allow a specimen to be viewed under environmentally controlled conditions while it is in the path of the electron beam.
The ESEM consists of five main components and numerous accessories. (1) The main console rack houses the electron optical column and specimen chamber. A high-tension electric cable is attached to the top of the electron optical column. The high-tension power supply, in the lower part of the console rack, has inlet and outlet ports for cooling water. An evacuation port attaches the specimen chamber to the two (2 and 3) rotary vacuum pumps.
(4) The display and operation system houses the electronic controls for the electron beam, detection devices and imaging systems, such as cathode ray tube viewing screen, and a Polaroid camera to photograph the television image. (5) A power supply box provides stabilised power to the display and operation system.
Accessories include metal and plastic specimen holders that allow a specimen to be viewed under environmentally controlled conditions while it is in the path of the electron beam.
Production
This unit, originally a JEOL JSM-2 scanning electron microscope, owned by UNSW, was transferred to CSIRO Wool Research Division, already converted to ESEM mode by Dr. Gerry Danilatos, who then brought it to a state-of-the art prototype just prior to its commercialisation. Commercial prototype models (ElectroScan) based on Danilatos's environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) patents derived from this unit, first appeared in 1988. Philips Electronics North America Corporation purchased ElectroScan (11/07/1996) to form Philips Electroscan, which changed to FEI Company (21/02/1997) on merging Philips ElectroScan with FEI. There are now thousands of ESEMs in use world-wide; no research body dealing in biological or environmental mode studies can do without a ESEM.
1978
Source
Gift of Dr Gerry Danilatos, 2010
3 May, 2010
Cite this Object
Environmental scanning electron microscope 2017, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 24 September 2017, <https://ma.as/319604>
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