Launch of EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected STEM Oxford Materials

27th March 2012

Launch of EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected STEM

A consortium of five UK universities (Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow) has been awarded £4.5M to operate SuperSTEM as an EPSRC Mid-Range Facility for the next five years. SuperSTEM offers world leading atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy capabilities in two scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) instruments. Pete Nellist of the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford acts as the Consortium Scientific Champion for the facility. An opening celebration was held in January 2012. The consortium also recently made a successful bid to the EPSRC Strategic Equipment Panel for a further £1M to enable the purchase of a new instrument offering spectroscopic resolution to better than 60 meV with high spatial resolution.

SuperSTEM is available for all EPSRC eligible researchers, and can be accessed via www.superstem.org.

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