Acquisition of a High Resolution TEM Equipped with GIF and EDS

9977391 Ajayan使用主要研究仪器基金，将获得最先进的完整分析高分辨率透射电子显微镜（HRTEM）与纳米分析能力。 该仪器将包括一个基本的200 keV TEM机器，能量色散X射线分析仪（EDS），Gatan成像过滤器（GIF）的电子能量损失谱（EELS）和化学绘图和加热阶段。 新仪器将使校园内的电子显微镜设施现代化，并将对研究能力产生重大影响。它将被安置在伦斯勒理工学院的材料研究中心。 有新的战略研究和学术倡议，例如纳米结构材料和电子互连，遭受校园缺乏这种现代仪器。 该HRTEM的影响将是巨大的，因为它将允许对材料结构进行原子尺度的观察，使用EDS进行定性和定量分析，以及使用EELS进行键合状态和化学分析。 来自材料科学与工程，化学工程，生物医学工程，电气和计算机科学工程，化学，物理和地球与环境科学系的教师将在他们的研究项目中使用该仪器来检查各种材料和结构，包括碳纳米管，纳米复合材料，金属和陶瓷纳米结构，半导体材料和薄膜，电沉积涂层，纤维-基质复合材料界面、组织-生物材料界面、蛋白质结构、玻璃和复合矿物。 此外，这一工具将对研究生和本科生的培训和课程编制产生重大影响。 动手培训，实时演示新的显微镜，在线广播的一些实验教室，和研究生的HRTEM项目将发生。 本科生谁是大学本科研究计划的一部分，并在RPI的本科生网站的研究经验将受益于这个现代化的设施。从主要研究仪器计划的资金购买高分辨率透射电子显微镜将对伦斯勒理工学院的研究和培训基础设施产生重大影响。 正在研究先进材料的七个部门的调查人员将使用这一工具。 学生，从博士后到本科生，将接受使用培训。

9977391AjayanUsing Major Research Instrumentation funds, a state-of-the-art complete analytical high resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) with nano-analytical capabilities will be acquired. The instrument will include a basic 200 keV TEM machine, energy dispersive X-ray analyzer (EDS), Gatan Imaging Filter (GIF) for electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and chemical mapping and a heating stage. The new instrument will modernize the electron microscopy facility on campus and will have a large impact on the research capabilities. It will be housed in the Materials Research Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There are new strategic research and academic initiatives, for example on nanostructured materials and electronic interconnects, that suffer from the lack of such modern instrumentation on campus. The impact of this HRTEM will be tremendous as it will allow the atomic scale observation of material structures, qualitative and quantitative analysis using EDS, and the bonding state and chemical analysis using EELS. Faculty from the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Bio-medical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Earth and Environmental Sciences will use this instrument in their research projects to examine a wide range of materials and structures that include carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, metal and ceramic nanostructures, semiconductor materials and thin films, electrodeposited coatings, fiber-matrix composite interfaces, tissue-biomaterial interfaces, protein structures, glasses and complex minerals. In addition, this instrument will have a significant impact on graduate and undergraduate training and course development. Hands on training, real-time demonstrations on the new microscope, on-line broadcasting of some of the experiments to class-rooms, and HRTEM projects for graduate students will take place. Undergraduate students who are part of the university undergraduate research program and the Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at RPI will benefit from this modern facility. Acquisition of a high resolution transmission electron microscope with funds from the Major Research Instrumentation program will have a large impact on the research and training infrastructure at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This instrument will be used by investigators in seven departments that are working on advanced materials. Students, ranging from post doctoral to undergraduates, will be trained in its use.