MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Probe Microscopy System for Nanoscale Probing, Manipulation and Fabrication

磁共振成像：该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。项目摘要将收购一个纳米扫描探针显微镜（NSPM）系统，用于调查和操纵纳米系统。该系统非常灵活，允许同时使用样品上任何位置的多个探针，包括光学探针、电学探针、AFM探针、蘸液笔/纳米移液管、镊子和加热器。智力优势-纳米级器件、材料和系统正在产生令人兴奋的发现，并解决最具挑战性的问题。为了开发和理解这些器件，需要一种可以探测和修改这些器件的纳米级特性的仪器。尤其是当纳米系统和器件变得越来越复杂时-集成，光学，电子和化学反应和功能。在RIT，NSPM将直接受益于这些研究领域，包括纳米光子学，等离子体，生物MEMS，光刻，电池，光电子学和纳米材料。更广泛的影响--NSPM仪器的获得将使大量的实验和发现成为可能，这些实验和发现将对计算、电信、生物科学、光刻和电力等多个领域产生重大影响。该工具将被纳入微系统工程和微电子学计划中现有的课程，并将专门为学生制造纳米器件并对其进行测试的工具开发一门课程。 此外，该仪器及其支持的研究将通过已经建立的K-12外展计划对当地社区产生影响，对美国光学学会和IEEE分会以及纽约州光子行业的成员产生影响。

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Probe Microscopy Systemfor Nanoscale Probing, Manipulation and Fabrication"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)"Project SummaryA Nanonics scanning probe microscopy (NSPM) system will be acquired for investigating and manipulating nanoscale systems. The system is extremely flexible, allowing the simultaneous use of several probes anywhere on a sample, including optical, electrical, AFM, dip-pen/nanopipette, tweezers and heaters.Intellectual Merits - Nanoscale devices, materials and systems are yielding exciting discoveries and solving the most challenging problems. To develop and understand these devices an instrument that can probe and modify the nanoscale characteristics of these devices is required. This is especially the case as nanosystems and devices become more and more complex - integrating, optical, electronic, and chemical responses and functionalities. At RIT the NSPM will directly benefit several of these research areas, including nanophotonics, plasmonics, biological MEMS, lithography, batteries, photovoltaics and nanomaterials. Broader Impacts - The acquisition of the NSPM instrument will enable a multitude of experiments and discoveries that will have a significant impact on several fields, such as, computing, telecommunications, biosciences, lithography and power. The tool will be incorporated into already existing courses in the Microsystems Engineering and Microelectronics program and a course will be developed specifically for the tool where students fabricate nanodevices and test them. In addition, the instrument and the research enabled by it will have an impact on the local community through already established K-12 outreach programs, to the local Optical Society of America and IEEE chapters and to members of New York States photonics industry.