Functional Remote Microscopy via the AtlanTICC Alliance

Abstract

The first phase of the AtlanTICC Alliance "Global Lab" has been set up utilizing a high bandwidth, low latency secure communications network connecting Imperial College London, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Georgia Institute of Technology. The "Lambda rail"[1] has enabled total remote control of the JEOL 2200FS aberration-corrected STEM/TEM instrument by Imperial researchers, in experiments amongst the Alliance partners conducted to date. The JEOL instrument is housed in ORNL's Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, a facility that provides ultimate environmental control necessary for a number of instruments capable of sub-Ångstrøm resolution to routinely achieve their specification capabilities. Initial testing has proved that the system is not only capable of full remote control of the microscope (bar sample loading and filling of the cold trap), but also, with the addition of the high-definition audiovisual system, a new capability for collaborative experimentation. Figure 1(a) shows a webcam view of the microscope control room in the AML, with the instrument seen through the window in its isolated room.

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“…) it has been possible to control the JEOL 2200FS aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) at ORNL from the electron microscopy lab in the department of materials, Imperial College London [5] . Imperial College has the first monochromated FEI Titan 80-300 in the UK with a Gatan Tridiem spectrometer.…”