IMS 7f-Auto

Several hundred CAMECA IMS 6f, 7f, 7f-Auto and 7f-GEO are installed worldwide, the list below is only a very short extract from our customer list!

Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Widely recognized as one of the top five materials research facilities in the world, the MRL serves as the innovation engine for discoveries in new materials.

Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech, USA
Operated by the University's Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS), the Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory serves the needs of researchers from VirginiaTech and from the surrounding industrial community, facilitating research in nanoscale engineering and the environment, fuel cells, paleobiology... The NCFL was one the first lab in the world to be equipped with a CAMECA IMS 7f-GEO.

Washington University in Saint-Louis (WUSTL), USA
WUSTL’s Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Group has been equipped with an IMS 7f-GEO since 2013. Research focuses on micro-scale variations in the C and S isotopic composition of biological and sedimentary materials, biogeochemical interactions between microbes and their environment.

CalTech Center for Microanalysis, USA
The Center for Microanalysis at Caltech houses a IMS 7f-GEO and a NanoSIMS 50L, providing expertise for microanalysis of geological, meteoritic and synthetic materials. Research projects carried out at CCM are most varied, ranging from cosmochemistry to experimental studies on climate change, geochronology, in-situ studies of microbial communities, materials science engineering...

University of Manitoba, Manitoba Regional Materials and Surface Characterization Facility, Canada
Equipped with a CAMECA IMS 7f and several other instruments for materials characterization, the Manitoba Regional Materials and Surface Characterization Facility provides a unique resource to regional government and industrial researchers and enables world-class research into the chemical, structural and morphological nature of surfaces and bulk materials.

Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Germany
The CAMECA IMS series instrument in Rossendorf is coupled to an accelerator mass spectrometer at the core of the "Super-SIMS" initiative of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology.

Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
The Ioffe Institute is one of Russia's largest institutions for research in physics and materials. Under leadership from Boris Ber, the Surface Analysis Group applies various IMS microprobes to investigations of coatings, thin films and various semiconductor structures.

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The School of Geoscience at University of Edinburgh is one of the largest and most successful groupings of geographers, Earth and environmental scientists in the UK. It is equipped with various CAMECA ion microprobes including an IMS 7f-GEO.

GEMAC Univ. Versailles, France
The GEMAC laboratory is equipped with an IMS 7f model used to investigate and develop materials, nanostructures and prototypes of elementary devices for electronics and optoelectronics.

CIM PACA, Arcsis, France
Located in the South East of France, a basin for semiconductor production, CIM PACA is the flagship characterization platform of ARCSIS, a consortium that unites world-ranking semiconductor groups including Philips, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments etc... as well as several dozens of small and mid-size companies, engineering schools, research laboratories and universities of the region. CIM-PACA is dedicated to the design, test and validation of new semiconductor technologies.

CC-MEM, Institut Jean Lamour / Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France
The Centre de Compétences en Microscopie Electronique et Microsondes (CC-MEM) is a collaborative research facility hosted by the Ecole des Mines de Nancy. The IMS 7f delivered in 2009 at CC-MEM contributes to cutting-edge research in material sciences, metallurgy, nanosciences.

Cinvestav, Seccion de electronica del estado solido, Mexico
Created in 1961, Cinvestav (Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) is a leader institution in research and postgraduate education in Mexico and the world

Specific to IMS 6f users: extend the lifetime of your instrument with our IMS 6f overhaul program:
IMS 6f ion microprobes are robust, but old instruments whose electronic components are becoming obsolete. To minimize the risk of long, non-scheduled downtime, CAMECA  offers an IMS 6f overhaul program, that will fully rejuvenate your instrument with a complete new electronics system, pumping and vacuum, new hardware, full automation, user-friendly acquisition and processing software, etc...
Download the IMS 6f-E7 upgrade flyer for all details of this upgrade and its benefits in terms of performance, productivity, ease-of-use, and of course, uptime and sustainability.

Automation & Software

PC-Automation (7f equipped with SUN workstation)
PC automation system to replace SUN system, allows full automation & unattended operation and greatly improves performance and throughput.

Post-treatment Station (6f-E7/ 7f)
PC computer for off-line data processing (CAMECA software not included).

Desk Control Duplication (7f with PC-Automation / 6f-E7)
Instrument control from an operator room. Ensures optimized operation comfort when the lab is split in two parts.

APM Software Licence (PC-Automation / 6f-E7 /7f with PC-Automation)
Automated Particle Measurement software program for fast screening of large numbers of particles and detection of specific elements or isotopes. More information.

WinCurve Software Licence (offline) (7f / 6f-E7)
Offers powerful SIMS data processing & graphing capabilities. More information.

WinImage II Software Licence (offline) (7f / 6f-E7)
Offers powerful SIMS image processing capabilities. More information.

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Sources

Cs Ion Source Isolation (7f with PC-Automation)
Isolation and Pumping of the Cesium Microbeam Source.

Duo Accel/Decel (7f with PC-Automation)
Low primary ion energy system for the duoplasmatron source.

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Airlock

Storage Chamber Upgrade (7f with PC-Automation / 6f-E7)
Manual storage chamber with its load-lock designed to store up to six sample holders under high vacuum. Ensures substantial throughput improvements for applications that depend on the best UHV conditions. 

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Specimen chamber

Z-Motion (7f with PC-Automation / 6f-E7)
Z-Axis manual adjustment for the sample stage.

Turbospectro upgrade (7f with PC-Automation / 6f-E7)
Turbomolecular pumps for the mass spectrometer (to replace the existing ion pumps, for optimized pumping speed in the mass spectrometer and improved abundance sensitivity while using the oxygen flooding.

Digital Video Camera (7f with PC-Automation / 6f-E7)
Numerical camera and LED sample illustration system (white light).

EPS (7f with PC-Automation)
Electrical isolation of the magnet flight tube in order to allow fast mass peak switching.

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Secondary Optical System

EM Detector Post-accelaration (7f with PC-Automation)
Postacceleration for the electron multiplier detector. Increases sensitivity when analysing heavy elements and when running the mass spectrometer at low secondary extraction voltage (<3 kV).

Vacuum

Pfeiffer Turbopump 7f
Peiiffer Turbopump 6fe7