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

材料研究仪器计划和主要研究仪器计划的这一奖项将为凯斯西储大学（CWRU）提供部分资金，用于收购200 kV场发射枪，能量过滤透射电子显微镜（EFTEM）LEO 923 LC FEG OMEGA。该仪器将用于材料表面分析中心（CSAM）。 CSAM为校园内众多部门的研究人员和学生以及任何俄亥俄州高等教育机构的研究人员和联邦实验室的研究人员提供仪器访问，如赖特帕特森空军基地和NASA格伦研究中心。新仪器补充了CSAM中的现有仪器，采用了各种新的能量过滤透射电子显微镜技术，包括零损失成像，定量电子衍射和电子光谱成像。LEO 923具有高分辨率成像、能量过滤和高空间分辨率化学微观分析的出色能力，使其成为研究包括纳米材料在内的各种材料的结构、成分和电子结构的特别强大的工具。EFTEM构成了材料科学中一种新的、使能的表征工具。CWRU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方案和本科生研究暑期方案，增加女大学生在拟议仪器用户中的比例。 该奖项将加强正在进行的合作研究项目与两个历史悠久的黑人学院-菲斯克和塔斯基吉大学-已经到位，更多的计划。拟议的收购将使各种各样的研究项目，包括研究纳米结构外延半导体异质系统，电沉积金属化层，纳米电容器的存储设备，金属基纳米复合材料，微机电系统（MEMS），热障涂层，宽，带隙半导体。这个奖项从仪器材料研究计划和主要研究仪器计划将提供案例西储大学（CWRU）部分资金用于购买200 kV场发射枪，能量过滤透射电子显微镜（EFTEM）LEO 923 LC 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方案和本科生研究暑期方案，增加女大学生在拟议仪器用户中的比例。与两所历史悠久的黑人大学--菲斯克和塔斯基吉大学--正在进行的合作研究项目已经到位，并计划进行更多。该仪器将使各种各样的研究项目，包括研究纳米结构外延半导体异质系统，电沉积金属化层，纳米电容器的存储设备，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。

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.