Acquisition of an Energy-Filtering Transmission Electron Microscope for Nanocharacterization Research and Student Training.

这份来自材料研究仪器项目和主要研究仪器项目的合同将为凯斯西储大学（CWRU）提供部分资金，用于采购200千伏场发射枪、能量过滤透射电子显微镜（EFTEM） LEO 923 LCs FEG OMEGA。该仪器将用于材料表面分析中心（CSAM）。CSAM为来自校园众多部门的研究人员和学生，以及俄亥俄州任何高等教育机构的研究人员和联邦实验室（如赖特帕特森空军基地和美国宇航局格伦研究中心）的研究人员提供仪器访问权限。新仪器补充了CSAM现有仪器的各种新技术，包括能量过滤透射电子显微镜，零损耗成像，定量电子衍射和电子光谱成像。高分辨率成像、能量滤波和高空间分辨率化学微观分析的协同作用，使LEO 923成为研究包括纳米材料在内的各种材料的结构、组成和电子结构的特别强大的工具。EFTEM在材料科学中是一种新的、使能的表征工具。CWRU的材料科学与工程系已采取措施，通过与乌尔苏拉学院合作的项目和本科生暑期研究项目，增加了拟议仪器使用者中女本科生的比例。该奖项将加强与两所历史悠久的黑人大学菲斯克大学和塔斯基吉大学正在进行的合作研究项目，这些项目已经到位，而且还在计划中。此次收购将使各种各样的研究项目成为可能，包括纳米结构外延半导体异质系统、电沉积金属化层、存储器件纳米电容器、金属基纳米复合材料、微机电系统（MEMS）、热障涂层和宽带隙半导体的研究。这份来自材料研究仪器项目和主要研究仪器项目的合同将为凯斯西储大学（CWRU）提供部分资金，用于采购200千伏场发射枪、能量过滤透射电子显微镜（EFTEM） LEO 923 LCs FEG OMEGA。该仪器将用于材料表面分析中心。该中心为来自校园众多部门的研究人员和学生提供仪器访问。CWRU的材料科学与工程系已采取措施，通过与乌尔苏拉学院合作的项目和本科生暑期研究项目，增加了拟议仪器使用者中女本科生的比例。与两所历史悠久的黑人大学——菲斯克大学和塔斯基吉大学——正在进行的合作研究项目已经到位，而且还在计划中。该仪器将实现各种各样的研究项目，包括纳米结构外延半导体异质系统、电沉积金属化层、存储器件的纳米电容器、金属基纳米复合材料、微机电系统（MEMS）、热障涂层和宽带隙半导体的研究。

This award from the Instrumentation for Materials Research program and the Major Research Instrumentation program will provide Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) partial funding for acquisition of 200 kV Field-Emission Gun, Energy-Filtering Transmission Electron Microscope, (EFTEM) LEO 923 LCs FEG OMEGA. The instrument will be for the Center for Surface Analysis of Materials (CSAM). CSAM provides instrument access to researchers and students from numerous departments across the campus as well as to researchers at any Ohio institution of higher education and to researchers at Federal laboratories, such as Wright Patterson Air Force Base and NASA Glenn Research Center. The new instrument complements the current instrumentation in CSAM with various new techniques of energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy, including zero-loss imaging, quantitative electron diffraction, and electron spectroscopic imaging. The synergy of its outstanding capabilities of high-resolution imaging, energy-filtering, and high spatial resolution chemical micro-analysis renders the LEO 923 a particularly powerful tool for studying the structure, composition, and electronic structure of a large variety of materials, including nanomaterials. EFTEM constitutes a new, enabling characterization tool in materials science. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at CWRU has taken steps to increase the fraction of women undergraduates among the users of the proposed instrument, through programs with Ursuline College and through the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research. The award will strengthen ongoing collaborative research projects with two historically black colleges- Fisk and Tuskegee University - are already in place and more are planned. The proposed acquisition will enable a broad variety of research projects, including research in nanostructured epitaxial semiconductor heterosystems, electrodeposited metallization layers, nanocapacitors for memory devices, metal-matrix nanocomposites, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), thermal barrier coatings, and wide-bandgap semiconductors.This award from the Instrumentation for Materials Research program and the Major Research Instrumentation program will provide Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) partial funding for acquisition of 200 kV Field-Emission Gun, Energy-Filtering Transmission Electron Microscope, (EFTEM) LEO 923 LCs FEG OMEGA. The instrument will be for the Center for Surface Analysis of Materials. The center provides instrument access to researchers and students from numerous departments across the campus. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at CWRU has taken steps to increase the fraction of women undergraduates among the users of the proposed instrument, through programs with Ursuline College and through the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research. Ongoing collaborative research projects with two historically black colleges- Fisk and Tuskegee University - are already in place and more are planned. The instrument will enable a broad variety of research projects, including research in nanostructured epitaxial semiconductor heterosystems, electrodeposited metallization layers, nanocapacitors for memory devices, metal-matrix nanocomposites, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), thermal barrier coatings, and wide-bandgap semiconductors.