Gentle Asher Chamber GV/GA

Description

The Gentle Asher has been specifically designed to expand the GV10x investment for sample cleaning prior to inserting into the EM chamber. The Gentle Asher Chamber, which is integrated with a GV10x, is ideal for preventing black scan square deposits.

The GVGA is not a plasma cleaner in the traditional sense since the plasma species are not accelerated but downstream with energies ≤ 30ev so ion sputter and specimen topography damage are eliminated. Atomic O2 produced in the GV10x plasma source removing hydrocarbon contamination from samples by chemical interaction that produce CO2, CO & H2O molecules which are then pumped away.

GV10x is a versatile tool enabling:

– storage and cleaning  samples in TEM holders

– surface modification of samples

– sample cleaning by using an external chamber

– cleaning the SEM chamber

– in-situ sample cleaning during imaging