ENVIRONMENTAL SEM laboratory

Room 107, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research,
University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4
Technician:  Sharon Lackie, Room 109
Phone:  (519) 253-3000 Ext. 4850 (office), Ext. 4932 (SEM Lab)
Fax:  (519) 971-3616
e-mail:  sharonl@uwindsor.ca

LOW VACUUM

The low vacuum mode is very useful for looking at non-conductive samples that are not really wet.  It allows us to look at uncoated samples without producing charging artifacts, but without coating the sample.  This is very useful for samples such as some alloys, rocks and minerals, glass, insects or other biological samples, polymers and many other types of samples.

1. Fresh uncoated pollen imaged in Low Vacuum     

2. Uncoated Wing of a Moth in Low Vacuum