Introduction of Surface Science/Quantum Mechanical TunnelingExperiments to the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

化学系的课程通过引入一套新的材料科学实验在扫描隧道显微镜（STM）和原子力显微镜（AFM）到物理化学实验室，从而显着提高毕业生的教育和培训进行了改进。 材料科学，一个相对较新的，非常重要的，迅速发展的跨学科科学领域仍然是，在大多数情况下，在本科层次的教学在这个和大多数其他机构未探索。 最近的发展使STM和AFM负担得起，并访问本科实验室，从而提供了一个简单的方法，用于教学量子力学隧道和相关的STM和AFM压电定位，隔振等技术的基本重要概念的部门，这套新的实验被纳入物理化学实验室，本科化学专业的门户课程。 该课程还包括美国化学学会认证的材料科学选项。 该设备是化学系材料科学实验室的基石。 这些课程最终可以支持大学机械工程系的材料计划。 *

The curriculum of the Chemistry Department is improved by introducing a new set of material-science experiments in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) into the Physical Chemistry laboratory thereby significantly enhancing the education and training of graduates. Materials science, a relatively new, very important, and rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of science remains, for the most part, unexplored at the undergraduate level of instruction at this and most other institutions. Recent developments make STM and AFM affordable and accessible to the undergraduate laboratory and thereby provide the department with a straightforward method for teaching the fundamentally important concept of quantum mechanical tunneling and related STM and AFM technologies of piezoelectric positioning, vibration isolation, etc. This new set of experiments is incorporated in the Physical Chemistry laboratory, a gateway course for undergraduate chemistry majors. The curriculum also includes an American Chemical Society certified option in materials science. This equipment is the cornerstone of a materials science laboratory within the Chemistry Department. These courses can eventually support the university's materials program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. *