OFFICIAL PRODUCTIONS OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPY UNIT

Annual Report 1998/1999
Annual Report 1999/2000
Annual Report 2000/2001
Annual Report 2001/2002
Annual Report 2002/2003
Annual Report 2003/2004

from 2005, the Unit has since stopped producing its annual report although collation of information is still being performed. Please contact Prof Mary Ng if you need any information.

THE ESEM E-BOOK

We have produced an electronic-handbook for Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) users in Life Sciences. As this technology is not widely used in Singapore, the handbook can be used as a convenient form of reference for the current and future users of the ESEM.

The specimens used are fungi of different species and their morphology differences were taken note of using the Environmental SEM. The variables in the experiment are the different ways of specimen preparation and the different viewing conditions such as the pressure and the accelerating voltage used. To compare, another batch of fungi underwent normal processing and viewing under the conventional high-vacuum SEMs. Over 400 digital images were taken and selected ones are featured in the handbook.

The handbook contains:

1) Specimen preparation techniques for ESEM
2) Optimised ESEM conditions for imaging
3) Comparisons of image quality with conventional SEMs
4) The "Dos and Don'ts"

Click here to see the presentation!

All of the above are official productions by the Electron Microscopy Unit, Dean's Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. We appreciate that there is no misuse of any content in the presentations. Best viewed on a PC platform with Windows 2000 and above