All instrument

The Nanowizard II – JPK-Bruker is designed for biological samples. It is equipped with a Zeiss fluorescence microscope and it is used for high resolution imaging and nanomechanical characterization.

The Raman Spectrometer XploRA Plus is a compact and fully automated micro-spectrometer using the vibrational Raman spectroscopy and an AFM for combined Raman-AFM and TERS. The operation modes combine confocal Raman, fluorescence and photoluminescesce imaging and spectroscopy, through manipulators and probes.

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Leica TCS SP2 equipped with 3 fluorescence PMT detectors

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Leica TCS SP8 equipped with DMI8 microscope, FCS Picoquant module and with PMT detector for transmission imaging and 5 internal detectors.

This is a state of the arte confocal microscope with excitation given by laser lines at 454, 488, 514, 635 nm and equipped wit Hybrid PMT detectors. The system has spectral resolution on the images. In addition the microscope is equipped with a STED superresolution module.

Cryogenic Electron Microscopy in Transmission, model Thermo Scientific™ Glacios™. The instrument is equipped with XFEG optics at 200 keV, cryogenic system of the sample preparation and handling, and software and support tools for the analysis of collected images. The Cryo-TEM is equipped with XFEG optics at 200 keV

DMA Star Systems – Mettler Toledo – allows Dynamic mechanical analysis to measure the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of materials as a function of temperature, time and frequency.

FIB-SEM with simultaneous milling and EBSD. The intrument allows preparation of high-quality ultra-thin TEM lamellae, delayering processes in technology nodes, precise nanopatterning and high-resolution 3D reconstructions.

Nicolet Nexus 870. Instrument for FT-IR spectroscopy and microscopy, model Nicolet Nexus 870, equipped with external optical table, two external detectors (MCT e TRS), GeATR, one Hind photoelastic modulator, and one IR Continuµm microscope.

The FTIR (dimensions 570 x 550 x 250 mm) is endowed with LightDrive Optical Engine components (source, laser, interferometer and detector) and a solid-state, temperature-controlled diode laser that with its enhanced long-lifetime and temperature-stabilized design guarantees accurate and precise data acquisitions.

Development of new methods for optical non-linear microscopy to be applied to biophysics and medical physics in-vivo. Under developing is a two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging microscopy and second harmonic generation microscopy.

The rapiflex™ MALDI Tissuetyper™ is specifically designed for MS imaging with a spatial resolution of 10-20 µm, so as to obtain information at the single cell level, and with a speed 10 times better than other commercial MS-Imaging tools.

Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid mass spectrometer for the analysis of molecules and supramolecular complexes with ultra-high resolution for proteomics, structural proteomics and other omics sciences. The instrument supports multiple fragmentation modes (CID, HCD, ETD) and their combinations and is coupled with a nano-flow UHPLC EASY-nLC 1000,

The NMR spectrometer is Bruker Avance III 600 MHz NMR, equipped with three probes suitable for the analysis of liquid, solid and heterogeneous samples.

Microscope inViaTM QontorTM model, with excitations at 532 and 785 nm, with motorized XYZ stage, flexible arm and Raman imaging techniquesx

Xenocs XEUSS 3.0 system operates in SAXS (Small Angle X-ray Scattering), USAXS (Ultra SAXS) and GISAXS (Grazing Incidence SAXS) modes. It is equipped for measurements on powders, pastes, gels, liquids and films, temperature control and robot for automation of sample preparation.

Small and Wide Angle X-ray Diffractometer. Samples can be measured at different temperature, humidity, high pressure and under mechanical stress/strain conditions. Special features: – TrueFocus: self-alignment with X-ray beam; – TrueSWAXS: simultaneous SWAXS studies up to 60° 2Ѳ.

Scanning Electron Microscope with field emission source, equipped with SE, BSE and Environmental (GSED) detectors, EDS system (Oxford Inca Energy System 250), heating stage (FEI) and tensile/compression test module (Gatan MST200).

The SUPRA 35 Field Emission SEM provides improved image resolution and a high productivity and versatility.

FEG-SEM with a nominal resolution of 1.2 nm, equipped with an integrated EDS/WDS micro-analytical system and with an EBSD detector for the crystallographic analysis of the sample surface

Scanning electron microscope with field-emission source, equipped with detectoirs for EDS, backscattered and secondary electrons

SEM system with EDS-SPM, Correlative AFM during SEM. The instrument has conventional tungsten filament, equipped with modern electron optics based on a unique four-lens Wide Field OpticsTM column. The SEM is equipped with four types of detectors (EDS, BSE, SE, water vapour detector).

The spectrometer Eclipse, Varian, is a fluorimeter for the measurement of excitation and emission spectra of fluorophores in solutions.

Transmission Electron Microscope with LaB6 source (120 kV) and BF detector and FEI Eagle 4k CCD camera (bottom mounted).

The TEM instrument – ThermoFisher Talos F200X – combines outstanding high-resolution S/TEM and TEM imaging with high performance energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) signal detection and 3D chemical characterization with compositional mapping.

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) with LaB6 emitter, 80-200 kV accelerating voltage, point-to-point resolution of 0.24 nm, EDS micro-analysis, 9 Mpx CMOS camera.

Rigaku SmartLab SE is an X-ray powder diffractometer for thin film diffraction, SAXS, pole figure, residual stress and non-ambient experiments, and with automatic alignment.

The RIGAKU Nano3DX is a X-ray microscope to measure large samples at high resolution. This is achieved with a high-power rotating anode X-ray source and a high-resolution cMOS-type detector. The instrument allopws CT reconstruction, image processing, 3D visualization and segmentation, quantitative analysis.