• 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