Advancing Transmission Electron Microscopy at the NCEM: Prospects for the Detection of Single Light Atoms in Soft and Hard Materials with a TEAM Microscope

The National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) is one of the world's foremost centers for electron microscopy and microcharacterization. As a national user facility, NCEM is open to scientists from universities, government and industrial laboratories after critical review of a scientific proposal. NCEM scientists conduct research by applying new techniques to critical materials problems. Here we present the recent developments of two electron optical methods: High-resolution aberration-corrected imaging and phase contrast microscopy using an electrostatic phase plate. These developments aim at maximizing the impact of electron microscopy on the atomic-scale characterization of soft and hard materials.