UNIVERSITY of SUSSEX SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE FACILITY

Life Sciences (Services) SEM Home Page Instrumentation Introduction to electron microscopy How an SEM works Beam / sample interactions Setting up the microscope Preparing the sample Critical point drying (CPD) Mounting the sample Sputter coating (Gold) Carbon Coating Cryo-Stage SEM Image Gallery 2005 Wellcome Trust Image Award Course Material Palaeoenvironments & Human Impact Scientific Techniques in Geography Biodiversity Survey

The Scanning Electron Microscope Facility is used by faculty and students from Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Engineering and Archeology for both research and teaching. Also available to commercial work and industry For further information contact:- Dave Randall School of Life Sciences University of Sussex Falmer Brighon BN1 9QG Tel: 01273 678385 (internal ext 8385) d.p.randall@sussex.ac.uk Dave Randall's staff web page