FEI has installed its Titan scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) at Zaragoza University's Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), located in Spain.
By providing direct access to structural and analytical information down to the atomic level, the Titan S/TEM will play an essential role in all three of the institute's primary interest areas: the physics of nanosystems, nanobiomedicine and nanomaterials.
According to Prof Ricardo Ibarra, the INA's director, the Titan system can visualise and analyse natural and synthetic materials at the nano scale and below.
He said: 'The bulk behaviour of most materials is determined by properties and interactions at this very small scale.
'We expect the Titan to be an indispensible tool in our efforts to design and create new materials, nanodevices, sensors and actuators that will provide our society with new, leading products, solutions and applications,' added Ibarra.
The INA includes high-level specialists in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, biochemistry and medicine, allowing it to perform multidisciplinary research using all branches of knowledge to address topics in nanoscience.
Advanced microscopes, such as the Titan S/TEM, will constitute the core of the new facility, known as the ICTS (the National Spanish Advanced Microscopy Laboratory-LMA), for the scientific community to share.
