RUEDI National Facility
RUEDI will be the only facility in the world offering Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging measurement capabilities.
Operating as part of an evolving national research infrastructure, RUEDI will form part of an ecosystem linking directly to shared research facilities at the University of Liverpool, including the Albert Crew Centre for Electron Microscopy and at other partner institutions.
RUEDI will be situated in the Northwest of England at the STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) Daresbury Laboratory site.
In line with other national infrastructures, RUEDI will offer a ‘free at the point of use’ access for academic users.
Coming Soon: JEOL aberration corrected 60-300kV GrandARM
- Cs Corrected STEM ~0.05nm spatial resolution
- IDES/DE Integrated Compressive Sensing
- CEOS EELS ~0.3eV energy resolution
- 3 CMOS detectors: STEM, EELS, Cryo-EM
- Atomic Resolution JEOL Dual EDS System
- Advanced cryoFIN + LN2 stage
- Operando Gas, Liquid, Heating Stages
- IDES Luminary Micro Optical Excitation
Transformative innovations in (bio)-materials advance by identifying functionality, understanding its origins and optimising its applications. As we move towards ever more complex materials, systems and processes, the ability to directly observe and control functionality on its emergent atomic/molecular length/time scales becomes key to rapidly advancing innovation in all technological areas - as Lord Kelvin famously said, “To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”. The new £4M EPSRC funded JEOL GrandARM 300F2 is, first-and-foremost, the highest combined spatial (~0.05nm) and temporal (~1ms) resolution imaging device available in the world today – it is therefore a unique tool for scientific innovation (available January 2023). These imaging capabilities can be applied over a wide range of environmental conditions, such as temperature (from liquid Nitrogen to over 1000oC), stress/strain, electrical bias, gas pressure, and liquid concentration. This means that atomic and molecular control can be exerted over materials structures/processes under precisely the conditions relevant to advances in new technologies that rely on chemical or biochemical dynamics. This instrument is housed and operated by the Albert Crewe Centre (ACC) for electron microscopy, one of the UofL shared research facilities (SRF). The ACC links to campus activities in materials synthesis (Materials Innovation Factory), advanced energy technologies (Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy), and AI (Distributed Algorithms CDT).
Coming Soon: ThermoFisherFEI Helios 5CX cryo-FIB/SEM
- C/Pt/W deposition
- Nanomanipulator
- STEM detector
- Cryo-stage and transfer
- Inert sample transfer to glovebox
- Oxford EDS/EBSD with Aztec
- Avizo 3D imaging – Slice and View
- Compressive Sensing acceleration
This new ~£2.5M EPSRC funded ThermoFisherFEI Helios 5CX cryo-FIB/SEM is a companion to the new AISTEM and provides for both specimen preparation and 3D/in-situ imaging capabilities (available July 2022). A key capability of this cryo-FIB/SEM is to provide the ultimate in specimen preparation for both atomic resolution STEM and cryo-EM. Workflows link to correlative optical imaging and to atomic scale STEM/TEM. In addition, the3D slice and view capabilities provide for a larger area analysis that can be coupled directly with EBSD, EDS and with experiments performed in the in-situ liquid stage.