Acquistion of a Field-Emission Analytical Electron Microscpoe

该奖项提供资金，用于升级扫描透射式显微镜和场发射枪，用于材料研究。新泽西州已经提供资金购买了一台传统的扫描透射电子显微镜。这项合同允许购买一台大幅升级、新开发的具有先进性能的场发射枪扫描电子显微镜。该仪器将位于史蒂文斯理工学院的一个新的显微镜设施中，该设施是由州政府资助开发的，并通过新泽西地区的5个机构组成的财团-表面工程材料先进技术中心-提供。财团机构包括：新泽西理工学院、普林斯顿大学、罗格斯大学、史蒂文斯理工学院和大卫·萨诺夫研究中心。该联盟是为了研究表面和薄膜材料问题而成立的，由罗格斯大学的伯纳德·基尔博士领导。史蒂文斯中心专注于与表面和薄膜相关的材料研究问题，如：纳米相陶瓷的界面、陶瓷/金属间化合物基复合材料、光电薄膜结晶和缓冲超导薄膜。该仪器将向该中心的成员以及当地大学和行业的其他人提供。

This award provides funds to upgrade a scanning transmission microscope with a field-emission gun which will be used for materials research. The State of New Jersey has provided funds to purchase a conventional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope. This award allows for the purchase of a substantially upgraded, newly developed Field Emission Gun-Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope with advanced capability. %%% The instrument will be located at Stevens Institute of Technology in a new microscopy facility being developed with state funds, and available through a consortia of 5 institutions in the New Jersey area, the Advanced Technology Center for Surface Engineered Materials. Consortia institutions include: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and David Sarnoff Research Center. The consortia was created to study surface and thin-film materials problems and is headed by Dr. Bernard Kear, at Rutgers. The Center at Stevens focusses on materials research problems related to surfaces and thin films such as: interfaces in nanophase ceramics, ceramic/intermetallic matrix composites, optoelectronic thin film crystallization, and buffered superconducting thin films. The instrument will be available to members of the center and others from local universities and industries.