Research in a wide range of disciplines – materials science, nano-science, heterogeneous catalysis, corrosion science, polymer science, to name but a few – is in strong need of improved surface imaging techniques with structural, chemical, electronic, and magnetic contrasts at spatial resolutions in the nanometer range. Spectroscopic PhotoElectron and Low Energy Electron Microscope (SPELEEM) is unique in that it provides easy access to all of these contrast mechanisms at resolutions in the nanometer range in a single instrument. One of the recent and the most important developments concerning this instrument is the upgrade to a microscope with an aberration corrector, which improves the spatial resolution of the microscope by an order of magnitude while increasing the transmission by a similar factor.
SPELEEM also has the advantage of having a large dynamic range of view of up to ~100 micrometres thereby facilitating easy access to the structure of not only the nanometer but the micrometre scale as well. Finally, as the detection in SPELEEM is done at video rates, monitoring of real-time dynamical processes is possible.
Beamline documents
MAXPEEM Review Report (download PDF)
MAX IV is involved in the European project NEP (Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis – Europe|PILOT) by offering a limited amount of beamtime at MAXPEEM for peer-reviewed proposals for multidisciplinary, frontier research at the nanoscale, scaling up to the micro-world. For further information please consult the NEP webapge.
