• Material Measurement Laboratory /
• Microscopy

Mi­cro­scopy

A Thor­labs Cerna mi­cro­scope is avail­able to ana­lyze sur­face mi­cro­struc­ture in the vis­ible & near-in­frared spec­trum. Cerna is es­sen­tially a heav­ily mod­i­fied Nikon FN1 mi­cro­scope with the fol­low­ing fea­tures:

• Ob­ject­ives: plan-fluor 10x, 40x, 60x (air), 100x (oil im­mer­sion)
• Mod­al­it­ies:
  • Bright­field
  • Dark­field
  • Po­lar­ized light
  • Dif­fer­en­tial In­ter­fer­ence Con­trast
  • Epi-fluor­es­cence
• Im­ages can be re­cor­ded us­ing two high-res­ol­u­tion cam­er­as: Pro­silica GT5120NIR (IR-en­hanced CMOS, mono­chro­mat­ic) and Pro­silica GT6600 (RGB CCD with Bay­er grid).
• All mi­cro­scope axes are fully mo­tor­ized (ob­ject­ive, con­dens­er, sample X & Y) and can be driv­en with 1 μm res­ol­u­tion.
• Meas­ure­ment se­quences are script­able via a ded­ic­ated Py­thon API