Acquisition of an Analytical Electron Microscope

资金将支持微观结构特征描述工作 在机械和材料工程系， 电气工程和物理。日益需要 材料表征，产生于创建 航天工程材料加工中心 摩擦学，以及表面原子和分子物理学 根据材料和电气工程的要求， 部门，证明收购现代分析 范德比尔特研究团体的电子显微镜。

Funds will support the microstructural characterization effort within the Departments of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Physics. The growing need for materials characterization, resulting from the creation of the Centers for Space Processing of Engineering Materials, Materials Tribology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics at Surfaces as well as demands within the Materials and Electrical Engineering Departments, justifies the acquisition of a modern analytical electron microscope for the Vanderbilt research community.