The Electron Microscopy Center located at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering serves faculty and students within the Technion, as well as from other institutions and local industry. The center provides service on all the microscopes, and trains students and scientists for independent use of the equipment. The facilities are run by expert staff members and include state of the art advanced scanning electron microscopes (SEM), transmission electron microscopes (TEM), focused ion beam microscopes (FIB) and computerized light microscopy (LM). In addition, a complete specimen preparation laboratory is included within the framework of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory.