MRI: Acquisition of a Dual Beam Focused Ion Beam System: Advancing Research and Education at Portland State Univ and at the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute

该提案要求获得双光束聚焦离子束（FIB）系统的资金，以支持波特兰州立大学（PSU）以及相关机构和工业合作伙伴的资助研究，并推进纳米材料和纳米器件的开发。该仪器将被安置在PSU的电子显微镜和纳米制造中心（CEMN）。CEMN是一个多用户设施，由几个最先进的高分辨率电子显微镜和一个设备齐全的标本制备实验室组成。它为PSU的研究人员和学生以及其他大学的研究人员和当地高科技公司的技术人员提供服务。俄勒冈州立大学的CEMN也是俄勒冈纳米科学和微技术研究所（ONAMI: www.onami.us）的研究机构之一，该研究所是俄勒冈州公立研究型大学的合作实体，包括PSU，俄勒冈州立大学（OSU）和俄勒冈大学（UO）；位于华盛顿州里奇兰的太平洋西北国家实验室（PNNL）；以及俄勒冈州和华盛顿州西南部世界领先的高科技产业集群的几家公司。新仪器将允许ONAMI的研究人员充分运用他们的专业知识，为俄勒冈州的大学带来原位纳米制造和纳米成像能力。双光束FIB提供的先进技术目前在俄勒冈州的任何一所大学都无法获得，它将使ONAMI的研究人员能够在未来很长一段时间内启动许多新的纳米科学和纳米技术相关项目。此外，它还将刺激和培养俄勒冈州跨学科和不同大学校园的研究人员之间的互动/合作，通过学术-工业联络研究建立新的伙伴关系，并改善不同学术背景的研究生和本科生的跨学科教育。来自西北地区的高中教师将有机会接触到这种新仪器，然后把纳米技术的概念带到他们的学校，帮助激励未来几代科学家和工程师。

This proposal requests funds for the acquisition of a dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) system to support funded research and to advance nanomaterials and nanodevice development at Portland State University (PSU) and related institutions and industrial partners. The proposed instrument will be housed in the Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication (CEMN) at PSU. The CEMN is a multi-user facility consisting of a several state-of-the-art high resolution electron microscopes and a well equipped specimen preparation laboratory. It serves PSU's researchers and students and those from other universities and technical personnel from local high-tech companies. PSU's CEMN also serves as one of the research facilities for the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI: www.onami.us), a collaborative entity involving Oregon's public research universities including PSU, Oregon State University (OSU), and University of Oregon (UO); the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington; and several companies that are part of the world-leading high-tech industry cluster in Oregon and southwest Washington. The new instrument will allow researchers in ONAMI to fully apply their professional expertise by bringing in-situ nanofabrication and nanoimaging capabilities to the universities in Oregon. The advanced techniques provided by the dual beam FIB, which are currently not available at any university in Oregon, will enable ONAMI researchers to initiate many new nanoscience and nanotechnology related projects for a long time to come. In addition, it will stimulate and nurture interactions/collaborations among researchers across disciplines and different university campuses in Oregon, creating new partnerships through academic-industrial liaison research and improving the cross disciplinary education of graduate and undergraduate students of varied academic backgrounds. High school teachers from the Northwest will have the chance to get their hands on the new instrument and then bring the concepts of nanotechnology to their schools, helping to motivate future generations of scientists and engineers.