Acquisition of Variable-Temperature Scanning Probe Microscope for Nanostructured Materials Research and Education

凭借材料研究计划仪器的这一奖项，哈佛大学化学和化学生物学系将从Omicron Instruments获得一个变温扫描探针显微镜螺栓连接模块。该仪器将促进许多领域的研究，包括a）单个纳米晶体的相变，B）通过单个分子、纳米晶体及其阵列的电子传输，以及c）通过单个碳纳米管和纳米棒的电子传输。VT-SPM系统将作为哈佛大学目前和未来研究纳米结构和材料的主要基础设施，它将作为新的合作努力的场所，以制造和操纵纳米尺度的材料，并以前所未有的细节研究其物理和化学性质。在受控的样品温度下，导电和非导电表面以及各种化学衍生的纳米结构的分辨率成像。SPM成像和操纵纳米尺度结构作为温度函数的能力开辟了化学，物理和相关跨学科科学领域的许多新的研究前沿，因为它允许对纳米尺寸材料进行物理和化学研究作为最重要的热力学变量，温度。使用SPM将使学生接触到表面科学，材料科学和纳米科学新兴领域的核心工具。凭借材料研究计划仪器的这一奖项，哈佛大学化学和化学生物学系将从Omicron Instruments获得一个变温扫描探针显微镜螺栓连接模块。该仪器将促进许多领域的研究，包括a）单个纳米晶体的相变，B）通过单个分子、纳米晶体及其阵列的电子传输，以及c）通过单个碳纳米管和纳米棒的电子传输。VT-SPM系统将作为哈佛大学当前和未来研究纳米结构和材料的主要基础设施，它将作为新的合作努力的场所，以制造和操纵纳米尺度的材料，并以前所未有的细节研究其物理和化学性质。使用SPM将使学生接触到表面科学、材料科学和新兴纳米科学领域的核心工具。%

With this award from the Instrumentation for Materials Research Program, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University will acquire a Variable-Temperature Scanning Probe Microscope bolt-on module from Omicron Instruments. This instrument will facilitate research in a number of areas, including a) the phase transitions of individual nanocrystals, b) the electron transport through individual molecules, nanocrystals and their arrays and c) the electron transport through individual carbon nanotubes and nanorods. The VT-SPM system will serve as a major piece of infrastructure for building present and future efforts in investigating nanostructures and materials at Harvard University and it will serve as a locus for new collaborative efforts to fabricate and manipulate nanometer-scale materials and to investigate their physical and chemical properties in unprecedented detail.A scanning probe microscope (SPM) coupled with a variable-temperature stage allows atomic-resolution imaging of both conductive and nonconductive surfaces as well as a variety of chemically derived nanostructures at controlled sample temperature. This ability of SPM to image and manipulate nanometer-scale structures as a function of temperature opens up many new research fronts in chemistry, physics and related interdisciplinary areas of science since it allows physical and chemical investigations of nanometer-sized materials as a function of the most important thermodynamic variable, temperature. Using the SPM will expose students to a central tool for surface science, materials science and the emerging field of nanoscience.***With this award from the Instrumentation for Materials Research Program, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University will acquire a Variable-Temperature Scanning Probe Microscope bolt-on module from Omicron Instruments. This instrument will facilitate research in a number of areas, including a) the phase transitions of individual nanocrystals, b) the electron transport through individual molecules, nanocrystals and their arrays and c) the electron transport through individual carbon nanotubes and nanorods. The VT-SPM system will serve as a major piece of infrastructure for building present and future efforts in investigating nanostructures and materials at Harvard University and it will serve as a locus for new collaborative efforts to fabricate and manipulate nanometer-scale materials and to investigate their physical and chemical properties in unprecedented detail. Using the SPM will expose students to a central tool for surface science, materials science and the emerging field of nanoscience.%%%