Field Ion Microscopes and Atom Probes

Seeing and Catching Atoms: ORNL's Atom Probe Field Ion Microscope

By Michael K. Miller, Philippe J. Pareige, and Kaye F. Russell

What is FIM? What is an Atom Probe? and What is a 3D Atom Probe?

FIM Group, Department of Materials, Oxford University

ALIS Corporation's revolutionary Atomic Level Ion Source

Using a beam of helium ions as the imaging particles, higher resolution and greater detailed images can be generated because ions can be focused into a smaller probe size and have less sample interaction than electron beam instruments.

FIM - Field Ion Microscopy and APFIM - Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy

A breif introduction from Surface Science Techniques

Fundamentals of the Atom Probe

The Three-Dimensional Atom Probe (3DAP) microscope is a point projection microscope that resolves millions of individuals atom positions in three dimensions and identifies the species of each atom by time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. From Imago Instruments.

Facilities

FIM Group	Department of Materials, Oxford University
Groupe de Physique des Materiaux	University of Rouen
Center for Atom-Probe Tomography	Northwestern University
ORNL Atom Probes	Shared Facilities ONRL
The Atom Probe Group	Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Graz