The department operates and maintains two easy-to-use table top SEMs that enable rapid imaging and elemental mapping up to magnifications of 30,000 X in addition to a high-end FIB-FEGSEM used for high resolution SEM, TEM sample preparation and 3D imaging by serial sectioning. Specifically these instruments are

– Hitachi TM 1000
– Hitachi TM 3000 interfaced to a Bruker SDD EDS detector
– Zeiss CrossBeam 1540XB with an Oxford Instruments EBSD detector and a Thermo Fisher Scientific EDS detector.

In addition, the department has open access to several SEMs maintained and operated by DTU Wind Energy. These include a Zeiss SUPRA 35 with Bruker SDD and Thermo Fisher Scientific EDS detectors and an Oxford Instruments EBSD detector, a Zeiss EVO 60 LaB6 ESEM with a Thermo Fisher Scientific EDS detector and a Bruker SkyScan X-ray micro tomography camera, and a JEOL 840 LaB6 SEM.