MM3E

Positions you can return to#

Based on the hugely successful MM3A-EM, the MM3E exhibits the same compactness, precision and stability, combined with closed-loop positional feedback on every axis. Define a parking position and a working position once, then recall each at the click of a button — instead of hunting for the same spot in the chamber run after run. Repeatability is better than 2 µm, with drift held below 1 nm/min.

Give your microscope a hand: use the MM3E to add new capabilities and functionality to your instrument.

A spherical drive that behaves like XYZ#

Drag-and-drop control software performs the coordinate transforms so the spherical, non-cartesian mechanism handles like a familiar XYZ stage, inside either the SEM or FIB view. The optional encoded axial rotation drive turns the specimen compucentrically, resolved to under 0.5 × 10⁻⁶° and repeatable to within 0.02°, so the point of interest stays framed as you rotate.

Built for the choreography of lift-out#

No backlash and no blind axis mean the tip goes exactly where the software says it will, run after run — which is what TEM lamella lift-out demands: approach, attach, cut free, transfer. The Tip Exchanger tool swaps probe tips without venting the chamber, so a session recovers from a mount or geometry change in minutes, not a pump-down cycle.