AMT have recently added to their range of digital cameras for transmission electron microscopes (TEM) with the launch of the AMT16000. Building on 17 years of camera manufacture and a user base of more than 1000 systems the AMT16000 has been developed to provide an easy to use and cost effective imaging system for new and existing TEMs with a resolution of 4872x3248 pixels.
The AMT16000 is primarily designed for life science, pathology and virology applications operating at below x200K where a wide field of view is required. AMT is the first camera supplier to offer a “mid mount” bottom interface which places the camera detector near to the plate film plane. The advantage of mid mount is that unlike traditional bottom mount cameras which give a small field of view the mid mount gives you a field of view of around 50-70% of film.
Acquiring the image from within the plate film region reduces TEM distortion effects and allows spatial resolution to be maximised by careful selection of phosphor and lens combinations. A new custom finite-conjugate lens has been developed for the AMT16000 with extremely flat focus and low distortion.
All AMT camera systems are reliable, easy to use and feature packed, the AMT16000 being no exception. With no moving O-ring seals and no water cooling, vacuum integrity and system reliability are second to none. The Kodak KAI-16000 CCD sensor is clocked at 38 Mhz with a progressive scan output giving live imaging (x4 binned) at 10 frames per second, making live survey and focusing very easy.
Software features include live FFT, on-screen measuring, image analysis, montaging and stitching. European systems are packaged with a DELL Precision workstation PC and 24” ultrasharp monitor.
