The National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) was a
U.S. Department of Energy national user facility at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, the United States Department of Energy. Located in ...
in
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...
, for unclassified scientific research using advanced
electron microscopy
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a hi ...
. It has since been merged with the
Molecular Foundry
The Molecular Foundry is a nanoscience user facility located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and is one of five Nanoscale Science Research Centers sponsored by the United States Department of Energy.
Ove ...
, also located at Berkeley Lab.
External links
Official National Center for Electron Microscopy website
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States Department of Energy national laboratories
Laboratories in California
University and college laboratories in the United States
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
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