Figure 2
(a) The Shifter as installed at a mounting microscope. (1) Clear protective enclosure lid. (2) Port for loading sample plates. (3) Shifter enclosure (∼90 × 30 × 6 cm). (4) Mounting aperture/optical axis. (b) A simplified drawing of the main elements of the sample stage within the Shifter enclosure, showing the microplates (5) in their plate carriers (6), which are mounted on the Y-axis carriage (7), all of which travels on and with the X-axis carriage (8). |