BINA faculty members Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Prof. Avinoam (Avi) Zadok and Prof. Adi Salomon, together with Dr. Yafit Fleger, head of BINA’s Charged Particle Microscopy (CPM) unit, won the Council for Higher Education’s Institutional Equipment Grant. This grant made possible the purchase of a Thermo Fisher Helios 5 UC DualBeam equipped with a cryogenic system from Leica, a state-of-the-art electron-ion microscope (CryoFIB-SEM) capable of producing 3D tomography of organic and inorganic molecules. The decade-old multidisciplinary team of PhDs from the life sciences, chemistry and physics making up the CPM unit have mastered the operation of seven powerful imaging and fabrication machines. The CPM unit is equipped with several scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and focused ion beams (FIBs) and provides analysis services to academia and industry in the fields of material science, electromagnetics, optic engineering and the life sciences, to name a few. Thanks to the unit’s diverse experience and expertise, the Cryo-FIB-SEM— which was installed just before the COVID-19 outbreak—is already operational, and it runs daily in order to keep up with the enormous demand for its unique slicing, fabricating, scanning and imaging capabilities. 27
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