The National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) is a
U.S. Department of Energy national user facility at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in the Berkeley Hills, hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established i ...
in
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...
, for unclassified scientific research using advanced
electron microscopy
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to control the electron beam, for instance focusing i ...
. In 2014, NCEM merged as a facility within the
Molecular Foundry, also located at Berkeley Lab. The NCEM has two
double-aberration corrected electron microscopes for atomic resolution imaging.
History
The National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) was established in 1983 to explore and research the characterization of materials with state-of-the-art instrumentation and expertise.
References
External links
Official National Center for Electron Microscopy website
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States Department of Energy national laboratories
Laboratories in California
University and college laboratories in the United States
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
{{Tech-stub