The research infrastructure of the laboratories at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) has been boosted by a recently launched transmission electron microscope.

The Materials Research Laboratory and the NOMATEN Centre of Excellence at the NCBJ deal, among other things, with research and testing of structural materials and their combinations, using modern, specialised analysis equipment. 

In one of the laboratories at NOMATEN, a JEM-F200 transmission electron microscope (TEM) from JEOL was recently installed and commissioned. The microscope is equipped with a Schottky Field Emission Gun, which provides a highly focused, bright and stable electron beam, enabling high-resolution imaging (down to 0.06 nm in TEM mode) and stable measurement conditions during long-term analyses.

The primary use of the TEM microscope at NOMATEN is to study radiation-induced changes in materials at the nanoscale, including dislocations, planar defects such as misalignments and bulk defects such as blisters or separations.