STFC adds to imaging capabilities

STFC’s Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC) has strengthened its imaging capabilities with additional benchtop SEMs at both its Harwell and Daresbury campuses, representing the 100^th and 101^st benchtop SEM’s installed by Hitachi in the UK.

STFC’s I-TAC initiative provides lab space and equipment to over 60 companies working in bioscience, energy, space technologies, advanced materials and chemical engineering. This has enabled them to achieve over £80 million in investment, to create over 100 jobs and to develop over 40 products. Companies are also given flexible access to high-specification equipment alongside the world-class science of STFC. The instruments add capability in spectral-imaging EDX, and 3D surface metrology.