Leica EM UC6 Ultramicrotome makes nanoslices of a sample and a freshly cut surface is then measured by AFM. Thus, many physical properties of a surface are studied and 3D-volume imaging is available after the reconstruction.
After the NTEGRA Tomo operation sample slices stay available for TEM analysis
More detailed description see in Journal of Microscopy "Atomic force microscope (AFM) combined with the ultramicrotome: a novel device for the serial section tomography and AFM/TEM complementary structural analysis of biological and polymer samples." |