MRI: Acquisition of Ion Mill for TEM Sample Preparation

MRI：购买离子磨机用于 TEM 样品制备

• 批准号: 2018560
• 负责人: Joyce Palmer-Fortune
• 金额: $ 13.61万
• 依托单位: Smith College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Ion; Mill; TEM

This award from the Major Research Instrumentation program supports Smith College with the acquisition of Transmission Electron Microscopy sample preparation tool. Acquisition of this tool greatly expands Smith’s capabilities to make non-biological samples for study in the electron microscope, and thus opens new research areas to Smith faculty and students, who are the primary users of the tool. This tool allows researchers at Smith to offer undergraduates accessible pathways into meaningful materials research in their first two years of college and opens doors for women and underrepresented minorities who make up 100% of Smith students. Involvement with research in the early college years is known to positively affect retention of women and under-represented minorities in the sciences. In addition, students gain meaningful skills such as how to make samples for the electron microscope, how to use an electron microscope, and how to analyze the results. These skills are valued in graduate programs and in industries that rely on materials development. Acquisition of this tool also increases the ability of the faculty to mentor women undergraduates of all racial and economic backgrounds in the physical and materials sciences.This award from the Major Research Instrumentation program supports Smith College with the acquisition of a Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) sample preparation tool. Acquisition of this tool greatly expands Smith’s capabilities to make non-biological samples for study in the electron microscope, and thus opens new research areas to Smith faculty and students, who are the primary users of the tool. The acquisition of the ion mill will enable scientists at Smith College to make high quality cross-sectional TEM specimen, improved quality plan-view TEM specimen, and to train Smith College undergraduates to make TEM cross-sectional samples and improved plan-view samples. Acquisition of this tool greatly improves the opportunities for current and future Smith faculty and students to enter into collaborations with researchers at other institutions who engage in research on fabrication of hard/brittle materials and especially thin films on substrates such as silicon, GaAs or other semiconductor materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项来自主要研究仪器项目，支持史密斯学院获得透射电子显微镜样品制备工具。该工具的获得极大地扩展了Smith制作非生物样品用于电子显微镜研究的能力，从而为Smith的教师和学生开辟了新的研究领域，他们是该工具的主要用户。这个工具允许史密斯学院的研究人员在大学的头两年为本科生提供有意义的材料研究途径，并为女性和占史密斯学生100%的少数族裔打开了大门。众所周知，在大学早期参与研究对保留女性和科学领域代表性不足的少数民族有积极影响。此外，学生还将获得一些有意义的技能，如如何制作电子显微镜的样品，如何使用电子显微镜，以及如何分析结果。这些技能在研究生课程和依赖材料开发的行业中很有价值。获得这一工具也增加了教师在物理和材料科学方面指导所有种族和经济背景的女本科生的能力。该奖项来自主要研究仪器项目，支持史密斯学院获得透射电子显微镜（TEM）样品制备工具。该工具的获得极大地扩展了Smith制作非生物样品用于电子显微镜研究的能力，从而为Smith的教师和学生开辟了新的研究领域，他们是该工具的主要用户。离子磨机的收购将使史密斯学院的科学家能够制作高质量的横截面TEM样品，改进质量的平面视图TEM样品，并培训史密斯学院的本科生制作TEM横截面样品和改进的平面视图样品。该工具的获得极大地改善了当前和未来史密斯学院的教职员工和学生与其他机构的研究人员合作的机会，这些研究人员从事硬/脆材料的制造研究，特别是在硅、砷化镓或其他半导体材料等衬底上的薄膜。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。