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Microscope in Port Elizabeth

The Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy is a facility for advanced electron microscopy research of materials from the micro to atomic scale. Also included are the techniques of X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy.
The main aim of the Centre for HRTEM is to provide a broad community of South African scientists and students with a full range of state-of-the-art instruments and ex.
The facility houses four state-of-the-art electron microscopes including the only double aberration corrected transmission electron microscope on the African continent. The centre also provides training in the practical and theoretical aspects of scanning and transmission electron microscopy from the basic to the advanced level. The centre is situated at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. The other instruments include a fully analytical TEM, a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope and an analytical high resolution scanning electron microscope.

The Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy is a facility for advanced electron microscopy situated at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. Other instruments include a fully analytical TEM, a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope and an analytical high resolution scanning electron microscope. The main aim of the Centre for HRTEM is to provide a broad community of South African scientists and students with a full range of state-of-the-art instruments and expertise for materials research. Primary researcher/researcher refers to the main researcher involved in communication with the CHRTEM. A new project register form needs to be completed for each new project (even if it is for the same researcher). Centre research focuses on the application of high resolution and analytical electron microscopy techniques in the characterisation of strategic materials in collaboration with local and international leaders in physics, materials science and engineering. The ultimate goal is the support of South African industries and the promotion of resource beneficiation, international competiveness and energy security.