A High-Voltage Electron Microscope Control System based on Grid Infrastructure

Abstract

This paper proposes High-Voltage Electron Microscope (HVEM) Control System, which is the cornerstone of teleinstrumentation infrastructure for e-Biology. The proposed architecture is designed prinipally for people whose primary work involves accessing a remotely located HVEM. Our architecture is designed to satisfy the requirements that allow the user 1) to control every part of a HVEM in a fine-grained manner, 2) to check the HVEM and observe various states of the sample, and 3) to take high resolution images of the sample. To this end, this paper proposes an HVEM Control System designed using the concept of Grid and Web Services, explains the problems which our prototype system encounters, and describes methods to solve these problems.