Cryo-EMโœ“ External Access

Advanced Microscopy and Analytical Core (AMAC)

Louisiana State University

๐Ÿ“ BATON ROUGE, LA ยท Website โ†—

LSU's Advanced Microscopy and Analytical Core in the Chemistry and Materials Building operates a 120 kV JEOL JEM-1400 TEM with a Gatan cryo-plunge system for frozen-hydrated cryo-TEM specimens, alongside a Thermo Fisher Spectra 300 S/TEM fitted with a Gatan ELSA cryo-transfer holder. Separate cryo-TEM hourly rates are posted for internal academic, external academic and industry users.

Equipment Inventory(2 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

JEOL JEM-1400

JEOL ยท Screening / Negative Stain

TEM
Voltage: 120 kV
Configuration: 60โ€“120 kV; side- and bottom-mounted 2K x 2K cameras; Gatan cryo-plunge system for cryo-TEM; Room 144A

Spectra 300

Thermo Fisher Scientific ยท S/TEM

TEM
Configuration: 60โ€“300 kV aberration-corrected S/TEM; Super-X EDS; DualEELS; EMPAD 4D-STEM; Ceta-S camera; Gatan ELSA 698 cryo-transfer holder; Room 144C

Rates

This facility publishes its rates as a document rather than a web page. View the facility's rate document โ†’