With a user group spanning manufacturing, engineering, textiles, electronics, biomedical and other sectors, Plymouth’s Electron Microscopy Centre provides expert, local access to imaging and analysis instrumentation; supporting a diverse range of activities including:

• Product / Process Improvement
• Materials Properties Analysis
• Research & Innovation
• Defect / Failure Analysis

The EM Centre is continuously updating facilities, equipment and instrumentation to enhance capability and create new opportunities for collaboration, and our current services include:

• Quality Monitoring & Control
• Nanotechnology
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• X-Ray Micro-Analysis
• Low-Vacuum SEM
• Low-Temperature SEM
• Light / Optical Microscopy

Microscopes are integrated with sophisticated software for image analysis, image processing and x-ray characterisation of materials, with facilities for rapid report generation. Remote, real-time SEM operation is also available.

The EM Centre offers professional training and skills development.

For more information please contact Dr Roy Moate - Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Manager of Electron Microscopy Centre.