The AMT (Advanced Microscopy Techiques Corp., Danvers, MA) CCD system has been installed on Morgagni 268 electron microscope since March 03, 2004. It is a bottom mounted CCD camera. Here is some basic information about three major parts of this system:

The camera: It is a norminal 1k X 1k camera (the display size of the installed chip is set to 1280x1024, actual chip size is a little bigger than the above dimensions). The pixel size on the chip is 24 microns. It is a lens-coupled system with a very thin layer of phospher.

The Controller: The controller box has two cables: one is the controlling cable that connects to the camera, the other cable is a firewire (1394) cable that transfers data to the computer.

The computer: An ATX PC computer with a P4 2.40 GHz processor and a CD burner. It also equipped with an Epson InkJet color photo printer to allow you print your images taken on site. Installed software includes the AMT software and a photoediting software - PhotoImpact. It is on rose2 network and has the latest patches for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system.

This document gives you a brief procedures of everyday operation of this AMT CCD camera. For details, please refer to the series of the original doduments that comes with the equipment. You can also get pdf version of this document.