Leica ACE600 high vacuum coater is a dedicated system for routine coating of non-conductive samples for subsequent examination in SEM, TEM and/or microprobe microscopes.  The coating is  usually done by the sputtering method, where argon plasma erodes a target material which is then deposited on the sample surface. Conductive coating can be performed also by carbon thread/rod evaporation which is important when low atomic number coating is required, especially for EDS or microprobe analysis. Our equipment is fully automated and able to use both methods: metal sputtering and carbon thread evaporation.