IK4-AZTERLAN is a technology Center specialized in metallurgy. The internal level of expertise and most of the materials involved in the daily work have therefore a metallic nature. Nevertheless and due to the versatility offered by the Scanning Electron Microscopy techniques there are very different types of materials that can be analyzed in this kind of equipments. Among them, we can mention materials such as glass, plastics, rubber, wood conglomerates, paintings, sands, refractory materials, … etc.
The analysis of this type of materials is possible since the equipment has three different modes of vacuum: high vacuum, for conductive samples; controlled pressure, for samples that do not conduct electricity and the environmental pressure, for biological samples.
The analysis of this type of materials is possible since the equipment has three different modes of vacuum: high vacuum, for conductive samples; controlled pressure, for samples that do not conduct electricity and the environmental pressure, for biological samples.