Acquisition of a High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope for the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory

这笔赠款为密歇根大学电子微束分析实验室(EMAL)购买高分辨率透射电子显微镜(HRTEM)提供支持。在密歇根大学(U Of M)，高分辨电子显微镜(HREM)已成为表征纳米结构材料的关键技术。EMAL设备可供校园内所有研究小组、大学以外的研究人员和工业界使用。该仪器将成为EMAL材料研究的主要高分辨电子显微镜。在过去的15年里，密歇根大学、其他大学和产业界的50多个研究小组使用了现有的过时的电子显微镜。通过这种使用，他们的研究已经在密歇根大学发表了1150多篇文章，密歇根大学350多名研究生使用旧设备进行了大部分论文研究。新的仪器将为大学的研究项目提供必要的能力，吸引新的研究项目，并允许在HREM方面对研究生进行更高级的培训。新的HREM将是校园内众多材料研究项目的重要组成部分，涉及来自材料科学与工程、核工程和放射科学、化学工程、物理和地质科学等多个系的14名教职员工。这一新的高分辨率电子显微镜(HREM)将使研究团体能够更有效地在纳米尺度上进行材料研究，同时也促进研究生和本科生的教学、培训和学习。大约40名学生和博士后在他们的研究中积极使用HREM。大多数使用HREM的教员在他们的研究小组中都有本科生，他们积极地从事材料的表征工作。暑期高中实习生也可以参与研究和实验室管理。新仪器将用于针对少数民族高中生和年轻女性的暑期研究项目。校园里任何需要这些新功能的研究人员都可以使用这种新仪器。

This grant provides support for the acquisition of a high resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM) for the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL). High-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) has become a critical technique in the characterization of nanostructured materials at the University of Michigan (U of M). EMAL equipment is available to all research groups on campus, outside university researchers and to industry. This instrument will become the primary HREM for materials research in EMAL. In the past 15 years, over 50 research groups, from within the U of M, other universities and industry, have used the existing, outdated electron microscope. Through this usage, their research has resulted in more than 1150 publications at the U of M, and more than 350 graduate students at the U of M have used the old equipment for a major portion of their thesis research. The new instrument will provide essential capabilities to the University's research programs, attract new research programs, and allow more advanced training of graduate students in HREM. The new HREM will be an essential part of numerous materials research programs across campus, involving 14 faculty from several departments including Materials Science and Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Physics and Geological Sciences. This new high resolution electron microscope (HREM) will allow the research community to more effectively pursue their studies of materials at the nanoscale, while also promoting the teaching, training and learning of the graduate and undergraduate students. About 40 students and post-docs actively use HREM in their research. Most faculty, who use the HREM have undergraduate students in their research groups actively working on characterization of materials. Summer high school interns are also able to participate in research and laboratory management. The new instrument will be used in summer research projects for minority high school students and young women. The new instrument will be available to any researcher on campus who needs these new capabilities.