Designation

LEICA HPM100

Manufacturer

LEICA

Model

EM HPM100

General informations

Provide excellent preservation of ultrastructure.
Doesn’t require freezing agent.
Simple and automated system for transferring liquid nitrogen guarantying reliability and reproducibility of freezing.
Correlated system pressure / temperature avoiding prefreezing or pressure artefacts.
Display pressure/ Temperature curves and backup data on USB key for assessing the quality of the sample after freezing.
Dewar integrated to minimize the consumption of LN2.
Air compressor fully dry integrated.
System on wheels.
200-240V / 50-60 Hz

Freezing speed

80.000°K/s on sample surface.
Sample supports and thin-walled cups to accelerate freezing speed.
Sample supports and specific cups for samples up to 5mm in diameter.

Category
Electronic imaging

This device installed in the service in 2010 is one of the latest generation for High Pressure Freezing (HPF).