Equipment manager
Richard Thorogate
Equipment manufacturer
Olympus
Equipment model
BX51
Equipment technique
Equipment Location
The Olympus BX51 upright microscope offers reflection mode (for opaque samples) and transmission light illumination. Current applications include characterisation of silicon wafers and devices, organic/inorganic thin films and biological samples.
Features of the BX51 include:
- Large mechanical stage, rotatable 200 degrees
- U-PO3 polariser slider for reflected light with U-AN360-3 analyser for reflected light (360 degrees)
- Hamamatsu camera
- Brightfield, darkfield, fluorescence, DIC
Objectives:
- LMPlanFl-BD: Long WD Plan semi-apochromat for brightfield/darkfield 5X/0.13
- LMPlanFl-BD: Long WD Plan semi-apochromat for brightfield/darkfield 10X/0.25
- LMPlanFl-BD: Long WD Plan semi-apochromat for brightfield/darkfield 20X/0.40
- LMPlanFl-BD: Long WD Plan semi-apochromat for brightfield/darkfield 50X/0.50
- UMPlanFL-BD: Universal Plan semi-apochromat for brightfield/darkfield 20X/0.46
- MPlanFL-BD: M Plan achromat for brightfield/darkfield 50X/0.8