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Core Facility Microscopes

Equipment Capabilities Core Facility Building
3i Spinning Disk Confocal Brightfield, Fluorescence, Confocal (Spinning Disk), Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRF), Differential Interference Contrast (DIC, Nomarski), Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage, Greyscale camera Keck Center for Nano-Scale Imaging Biological Sciences West
Advanced Intravital Confocal/Multiphoton Microscope Multiphoton/confocal, Intravital, Two photon excitation, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), Third Harmonic Generation (THG), Motorized stage Translational Bioimaging Resource (RII) Bioscience Research Laboratory (BSRL)
Asylum Cypher S/ES Atomic Force Microscope Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Keck Center for Nano-Scale Imaging Chemical Sciences
CAMECA SX100 Electron Microprobe Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Wavelength dispersive analysis (microprobe) Michael J. Drake Electron Microprobe Laboratory Kuiper Space Sciences
CAMECA SX50 Electron Microprobe Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Wavelength dispersive analysis (microprobe) Michael J. Drake Electron Microprobe Laboratory Kuiper Space Sciences
Deltavision Elite deconvolution fluorescence microscope Brightfield, Fluorescence, Widefield, Deconvolution, Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera MCB Imaging facility Life Sciences South
DeltaVision RT Deconvolution Microscope Fluorescence, Widefield, Deconvolution, Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage, Greyscale camera Research Microscopy Core Service Medical Research Building (MRB)
FEI Helios DualBeam SEM/FIB Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Focused Ion Beam (FIB-SEM), Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility Kuiper Space Sciences
FEI Inspec-S Scanning Electron Microscope Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Electron Beam Lithography, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) Keck Center for Nano-Scale Imaging Chemical Sciences
FEI Tecnai Spirit transmission electron microscope Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) Imaging Cores - Electron Life Sciences North
Hitachi 3400N SEM Cathodoluminescence, Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Arizona LaserChron Center Gould-Simpson
Hitachi HF5000 - 200KeV aberration corrected TEM Scanning TEM (STEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS), Dark-field, Secondary Electron Detector Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility Kuiper Space Sciences
Hitachi S-3400N variable pressure SEM with Energy Dispersive X-ray microanalysis Raman spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Characterization/analysis, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Secondary Electron Detector Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility Kuiper Space Sciences
Hitachi S-4800 Field Emission SEM with Energy Dispersive X-ray microanalysis Scanning TEM (STEM), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Secondary Electron Detector Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility Kuiper Space Sciences
JEOL 6010LA benchtop SEM Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray Microanalysis SEM Facility (Geosciences) Gould-Simpson
Leica DMI6000 multifunction motorized inverted microscope with two cameras Brightfield, Fluorescence, Widefield, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC, Nomarski), Polarized, Microscope slide scanning, Inverted optical microscope, Motorized stage, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Life Sciences North
Nikon AX R Confocal Microscope Fluorescence, Confocal (point scanning, spectral), Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC) UA Cancer Center
Nikon AX R Multiphoton Microscope Fluorescence, Multiphoton/confocal, Intravital, Two photon excitation, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC) UA Cancer Center
Nikon BioPipeline SLIDE Brightfield, Fluorescence, Widefield, Polarized, Microscope slide scanning, Upright optical microscope, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC), Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Resource UA Cancer Center
Nikon N-STORM Fluorescence, Superresolution, Single Molecule Localization Microscopy (PALM/STORM), Upright optical microscope, Greyscale camera Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC), Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Resource UA Cancer Center