[3dem] DDD on 120kV TEM equipped with LaB6

Fri Mar 22 07:03:39 PDT 2019

Yes indeed.   Why not.  My guess is, it will definitely come and it will
reduce the cost too.   But first by whom is the question.

Natesh

On Fri 22 Mar, 2019, 7:17 PM Philip Köck, <Philip.Koeck at ki.se> wrote:

> Would a 120 kV TEM with FEG make any sense?
>
> Philip
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> *Subject:* Re: [3dem] DDD on 120kV TEM equipped with LaB6
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> Dear Benjamin,
> If you would have gone to much more defocussed C2, a small C2 aperture,
> and therefore darker illumination, better coherence and longer exposure
> time, you should have been able to get many more Thon rings and much higher
> resolution also with the LaB6 source.
>
> An interesting question is:
>
> For what type of electron microscope, kV,  detector, purchasing price,
> maintenance costs, and operator workload is the ratio of “number of atomic
> structures produced in a week” and “overall facility cost” maximal?
>
> Henning.
>
> Henning Stahlberg
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> On Mar 21, 2019, at 22:20, Benjamin Bammes <bbammes at directelectron.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mohammad,
>
> I collected some cryo-EM data with a DE-12 on a LaB6 120 kV TEM a couple
> years ago (see attached slides). Using about 60 images collected in less
> than an hour, I got a 10 Angstrom reconstruction of Mm-Cpn. The combination
> of the high SNR of the DE-12 and it's high speed for doing motion
> correction seemed to make a big difference (note that very few 120 kV LaB6
> reconstructions at that time had reached 15 Angstroms resolution, let alone
> 10). I've always been interested to see if someone could push this further,
> since we clearly saw Thon rings up to 6 Angstroms or so. So I think this is
> quite promising, providing the direct detector has sufficient dynamic range
> for lower energy electrons and high-speed dose fractionation for motion
> correction on these less stable instruments.
>
> Note that the DE-12 camera has since been updated and is now the
> DE-DirectView.
>
> (Acknowledgment to Wah Chiu who was our collaborator on this short
> proof-of-concept experiment.)
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:01 AM Mazhab-Jafari, Mohammad <
> Mohammad.Mazhab-Jafari at uhnresearch.ca> wrote:
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>> Dear 3DEM community,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has used a K2 or any other direct detector
>> device cameras on a 120kV TEM equipped with a LaB6 emitter? If so what
>> resolution range can be expected for 3D reconstruction of a well-behaved
>> protein (~1MDa in size) with single particle image analysis method?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any insights will be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mohammad.
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