The Advanced Microscopy Facility hosts instruments across self-driving labs, confocal, single-molecule super-resolution, STED, scanning probe, near-field, and correlative imaging. Each entry below opens to specifications, location, and access details.
Atomic force microscopy 1 instrument
AFM Cypher ES
Atomic force microscope, sub-nm topology in dry and liquid environments.
View instrumentConfocal microscopy 3 instruments
Nikon AX with NSPARC
Confocal with the NSPARC super-resolution detector, around 120 nm lateral, in AdBio Lab, Helix.
View instrumentNikon A1R HD25
Confocal with 25 mm field of view, 8 kHz resonant scanner, six lasers, temperature-controlled stages. Hosted by Janne-Mieke Meijer’s group, Flux.
View instrumentNikon A1
Older Nikon confocal at AMF, sharing the Ti2 body with the Abbelight SAFe-360 in Flux 4.102.
View instrumentCorrelative imaging 1 instrument
CLEM (Zeiss + Glacios)
Cryo-fluorescence on a Zeiss AxioImager with Linkam cryo-stage, correlative with Thermo Fisher Glacios cryoTEM at CMEM.
View instrumentCustom-built 3 instruments
Custom-built microscopy
Bespoke optical setups for imaging questions off-the-shelf systems cannot answer.
View instrumentiSCAT
Home-built interferometric scattering microscope for label-free imaging of single proteins, vesicles, viruses, and nanoparticles. Mass photometry and iNTA, with fluorescence channels coming.
View instrumentSpatiotemporal Microscopy
Ultrafast pump–probe microscopy for direct imaging of heat, charge, and exciton diffusion in thin films, 2D materials, and nanoribbons. Femtosecond temporal, sub-micron spatial.
View instrumentNear-field optical (SNOM) 1 instrument
Cryo-neaSNOM
Scanning near-field optical microscope, vis/IR/THz, cryogenic temperatures. Hosted by Klaas-Jan Tielrooij’s group.
View instrumentSelf-Driving Labs 3 platforms
Robotlab SDL
Closed-loop SDL on a Confocal.nl NL5+ confocal driven by Micro-Manager (open-source, Fiji/ImageJ-based). Coacervates, condensates, soft materials. Hosted by Yannick Leurs and Willem van den Hout.
View instrumentPhaseXplorer SDL
Autonomous mapping of phase-separation across multivariate spaces — 100× faster, 10,000× less material. Confocal.nl NL5+ on Micro-Manager. Hosted by Nadia Erkamp in Ceres.
View instrumentXperimate SDL
Autonomous formulation, application, and analysis of coatings, inks, and paints — wet and dry. AI/ML guided. Hosted by Joost van der Tol and Ghislaine Vantomme.
View instrumentSingle-molecule localisation (SMLM) 3 instruments
Nikon N-STORM
TIRF-based SMLM on a Nikon Ti-E body, 405 to 637 nm excitation, photoactivation.
View instrumentOxford Nanoimager (ONI)
Desktop SMLM workhorse, dSTORM and single-particle tracking in live cells.
View instrumentAbbelight SAFe-360
Multi-colour SMLM with DNA-PAINT, on a Nikon Ti2 body, in Flux 4.102.
View instrumentSTED super-resolution 1 instrument
Abberior STED ExpertLine
STED super-resolution microscope, real-time scanning, live-cell capable.
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