MRI: Acquisition of an FEI Helios Focused Ion Beam and Scanning Electron Microscope Workstation

MRI：购买 FEI Helios 聚焦离子束和扫描电子显微镜工作站

• 批准号: 1229290
• 负责人: Jennifer Dionne
• 金额: $ 123.27万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1229290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; FEI; Helios; Focused

This award to Stanford University is for the acquisition of a Helios NanoLab 600i dual-beam Focused Ion Beam / Scanning Electron microscope manufactured by the FEI Company. The Helios offers unprecedented capabilities for fabricating and characterizing two- and three-dimensional nanoscale objects. It will enable more than thirty Stanford research groups to address grand challenges in nanoscience and nanotechnology. For example, the Helios will support research efforts to: create plasmonic optical tweezers that can trap single atoms; detect cancer in its earliest stages; create the first integrated circuit that can serve as an efficient source of terahertz radiation; develop organic solar cells with higher efficiency and organic transistors with higher mobility; determine how neurons communicate with each other in the brain; and, elucidate the quantum mechanical phenomena that determine the behavior of topological insulators. The Helios will also enable a broad range of scientists to prepare higher-quality samples for transmission electron microscopy because it prepares lamellae with a low-energy (500 eV) ion beam. As a result, researchers will be able to take full advantage of state-of-the-art aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopes that can image samples with sub-Ångstrom resolution. The Helios will reside within the Stanford Nano Center (SNC), a shared user facility, where external users from corporations, national laboratories, and other academic institutions will have access. In addition, it will be part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network(NNIN). No open laboratory in northern California contains a Focused Ion Beam instrument as advanced as the Helios. Researchers at Stanford will collaborate with the FEI Company to implement full remote control by domestic and international users of the Helios. The Helios will be featured in public outreach events such as Stanford Days and Nanodays, and its capabilities will be shared with minority-serving institutions in an effort to catalyze future collaborations.

该奖项授予斯坦福大学是为了收购FEI公司制造的Helios Nanolab 600i双光束聚焦离子光束 /扫描电子显微镜。 Helios提供了前所未有的功能，用于制造和表征二维纳米级对象。它将使三十多个斯坦福大学的研究小组能够应对纳米科学和纳米技术的巨大挑战。例如，Helios将支持研究工作：创建可以捕获单个原子的血浆光学镊子；在最早的阶段发现癌症；创建第一个可以作为Terahertz辐射的有效来源的集成电路；开发具有较高效率的有机太阳能电池和具有较高迁移率的有机晶体管；确定神经元如何在大脑中相互交流；并阐明决定拓扑绝缘子行为的量子机械现象。 Helios还将使广泛的科学家能够为透射电子显微镜准备更高质量的样品，因为它可以用低能（500 eV）离子束制备薄片。结果，研究人员将能够充分利用最先进的像差校正的透射电子显微镜，这些透射电子显微镜可以通过sub-Ångstrom分辨率对样品进行成像。 Helios将居住在Stanford Nano Center（SNC）内，该中心是共享用户设施，该公司的外部用户来自公司，国家实验室和其他学术机构。此外，它将是国家纳米技术基础设施网络（NNIN）的一部分。北加州没有开放式实验室包含像Helios一样高级的聚焦离子束仪器。斯坦福大学的研究人员将与FEI公司合作，由Helios的国内和国际用户实施全面的遥控器。 HELIOS将在斯坦福时代和纳米派等公共宣传活动中展出，其能力将与少数派服务机构共享，以促进未来的合作。