What is the TEAM microscope?
The TEAM project will construct a new generation electron microscope designed to incorporate aberration-correcting electron optics, to develop a common platform for a powerful new nanocharacterization instrument, and to make this instrument widely available to the materials and nanoscience community.
Scientific Goals:
Once built, the TEAM microscope will allow researchers to address important scientific challenges such as:
- Direct imaging of individual nanostructures
- Atomic resolution tomography
- Single atom spectroscopy
- Local electronic structure and bonding
- Dynamics and mechanisms of reactions
Technical Goals:
To meet the scientific challenges, it is necessary to make a number of technical advances, including:
- Spatial resolution of 0.05 nanometers for real-time structural imaging in both broad beam (TEM) and focused probe (STEM) modes of operation.
- Capability for continuous, fine translation and sample tilting over a large angular range to permit three-dimensional tomography at the atomic scale
- Greater space and flexibility in the sample environment to allow a variety of in-situ experiments at sub-nanometer resolution, including observations of dynamic events over a range of experimental operating conditions.
The resulting improvements in electron optics, mechanics, electronics and technique will be of great importance for electron microscopy and foster the development of technologies that would otherwise not become available.