With many thanks to FEI Company for the extended evaluation we have enjoyed of the Quanta 3D FEG, we will be saying ‘good-bye’ to that loaner in mid-May, as it has been sold.

We will be replacing the Quanta with a much higher resolution instrument, the Helios, which will be moving to the Micron Microscopy Core labs of the Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building (SMBB), in December, 2011 (immediately upon commissioning).

The UHR instrument coming to the U in December is described here:123