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AMIL Service
 AMIL
is foremost a research instrumentation and service facility. Its services are
available to AU faculty, staff, and student researchers; state institutions; and
to business and private industry.
The facility is used extensively for research in the areas of
biological sciences, engineering, geological sciences, textiles, and materials
science. Complete individual training, and familiarization with instrumentation
and specimen preparation techniques are available upon request. Instrument use
and some technical services are on a fee-charge basis.
The AMIL houses a Zeiss Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) ,
a Zeiss Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and a BioRad Laser Scanning Confocal
Microscpe with Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 XZ workstation. In addition, our Zeiss
Axiovert 200 Inverted Fluorescence microscope workstation is equipped with 4
cameras and utilizes MetaMorph Imaging software.
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TEM is used in the study of subcellular organization and
observation of submicroscopic organisms in the magnification range up to
150,000X with our instrument.
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SEM is widely used in the materials and biological sciences
for analyzing surface samples, usually in the working range of 10X to
20,000X.
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The confocal microscope provides for digitized optical
sectioning of properly prepared samples and can be operated in fluorescence
(confocal), reflectance (confocal), and transmittance (non-confocal) modes.
With the SGI Indigo2 XZ Workstation and Vital Images software, it is
possible to post-process collected, serial, optical sections for
3-dimensional reconstruction and measurements.
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The Zeiss Axiovert 200 fluoresence microscope allows the
visualization of fluorescent dyes and immunolabeled probes.
Click here for more information about the
Confocal Microscope.
Click here for more information about
Pricing. | 
