E komo mai! Welcome to the Advanced Electron Microscopy Center!
The collection of instruments available in the AEMC facility.
The Advanced Electron Microscopy Center (AEMC) is a service facility that provides sample preparation and electron and ion microscopy imaging and analysis to the University of Hawai‘i research community as well as other research institutions and industrial clients. The Center is housed in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and receives support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVCRI), and the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP).
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Over 100 EDS maps were automatically collected across polished section of Hamlet meteorite (LL4).
The newly acquired AZtec® Large Area Mapping (LAM) software offers automated energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) mapping capabilities for large sample areas. The primary objective of this software is to understand the relationship between mm and μm scale structures in polished sections. Read more about it.
Backscattered electron image and a composite map within a sample returned from the asteroid Ryugu during JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission.
HIGP scientists have investigated several particles collected during each of two touchdowns of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft at the surface of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu using various electron microscope techniques (Dobrică et al. 2023, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 346, 65–75). Read more about it.
See previous AEMC highlights in the Highlights Archive.