SEM Sample Holders
Modern Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) include relatively large and robust samples stages which allows the specimen to be moved under the scanning beam. One of the main advantages of the SEM is that large specimens, multiple specimen areas or multiple smaller specimen can be examined easily. It is paramount that the samples are held stable under scanning electron beam during imaging or EDS analysis to enable high resolution imaging. SEM sample holders are used to hold the sample son the SEM stage.
SEM sample holders are indispensable tools for holding specimens, parts and SEM stubs in the SEM. The use of the SEM is widespread in research, product development, materials analysis, quality control, mining, forensics etc. These wide ranging applications require specialized SEM sample holders to cope with the large variety of samples. Using specialised or dedicated SEM sample holders will improve imaging results, efficiency, productivity and ease of use. Compared to the capital and running costs of the SEM, the cost for special SEM sample holders is negible and quickly amortized.
There are number of SEM manufacturers which results in different approaches of holding sample mounts and sample holders on the SEM stage. SEM sample holders and SEM stage adapters need to be made compatible with the different SEM stages. Specialised SEM sample holders are available for SEMs made by FEI, Philips, Zeiss, LEO, Hitachi, JEOL, Phenom, Aspex, Cambridge Instruments, Leica, AmRay, Electroscan, ETEC, Pemtron and CamScan.
Examples of specialised EM-Tec SEM sample holders are:
The best sources for your SEM sample holders and SEM stage adapters is Micro to Nano, which is specialized in practical and custom SEM sample holders.