Novel TEM applications with precession electron diffraction: orientation imaging at nm scale, strain analysis, and solving structures ab-initio

Novel TEM applications with precession electron diffraction: orientation imaging at nm scale, strain analysis, and solving structures ab-initio Robert Stroud NanoMEGAS USA 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Location: Engineering Tower 652 Precession electron diffraction (PED) in TEM is an emerging technique, using electron diffraction patterns collection very close to kinematical condition (like in…Continue Reading Novel TEM applications with precession electron diffraction: orientation imaging at nm scale, strain analysis, and solving structures ab-initio

SCSMM 2017 fall meeting

SCSMM 2017 fall meeting will be held at City of Hope Beckman Center Argyros Auditorium on November 2nd. Caltech Linde Professor of Physics emeritus and former LIGO director Barry C. Barish is the invited speaker. The formal announcement can be downloaded here. RSVP is required Due to the generous support of our corporate members, registration…Continue Reading SCSMM 2017 fall meeting

Medical Device Seminar

TA Instruments offers a comprehensive suite of analytical tools used for materials characterization. This free one day seminar will focus on characterization of materials and biomaterials used in both medical device applications and medical device testing. Join us as we explore; Thermal and degradation stability of materials Phase transitions and the impact on mechanical properties…Continue Reading Medical Device Seminar

Advances in Ion Microscopy for Nanofabrication & Materials Science

Advances in Ion Microscopy for Nanofabrication & Materials Science Tuesday, June 13, 10am – 4pm Caltech’s Annenberg Center for Information Science & Technology, Room 105 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/Caltech-IonMicroscopyWorkshop Agenda: 10:00 Welcome and Introduction Dr. Matthew Hunt, KNI, Caltech 10:10 Gallium and Beyond: Sub 10 nm Nanofabrication with Zeiss…Continue Reading Advances in Ion Microscopy for Nanofabrication & Materials Science

Thermal Analysis of Polymers, Rubber, and Coatings

We have decided to do a follow-up low temperature seminar in Orange County to coincide with Antec in Anaheim! We will be hosting “Thermal Analysis of Polymers, Rubber, and Coatings” on May 11th in Orange County, CA (Anaheim) This seminar will focus on low temperature thermal and mechanical property analysis of polymer, rubber, and coating…Continue Reading Thermal Analysis of Polymers, Rubber, and Coatings

Strategies for Multi-Modal Analysis by Dr. Alexander Hexemer

Title: Strategies for Multi-Modal Analysis Speaker: Dr. Alexander Hexemer Date: Tuesday, May 9 Time: 11:00am – 12:00 p.m. Location: Calit2 Auditorium at UCI Abstract: This section on soft materials will be dedicated to discuss the extraction of the chemical distribution and spatial arrangement of constituent elements and functional groups at multiple length scales and, thus,…Continue Reading Strategies for Multi-Modal Analysis by Dr. Alexander Hexemer

APPROACHING VIRUS LIFE CYCLE WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Dr. Li Xing US Air Force Research Lab Monday, April 24, 2017, Colloquia Auditorium Electron microscopy has been one of the robust tools in characterizing the life cycle of viruses, such as Semliki Forest Virus (SFV), an alphavirus that belongs to Togavirus family and causes encephalitis in human. The viral particle of SFV is composed…Continue Reading APPROACHING VIRUS LIFE CYCLE WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

SEM and TEM lectures

Hi, IMRI facility users and potential users: I have scheduled 5 IMRI summer lectures in the end of Sept 2019. The details are listed below: 1) Sept 22, 9am-10:30: SEM imaging and principles 2) Sept 23, 9am-10:30: EDS composition analysis and principles 3) Sept 28, 3-5pm: FIB and advanced capabilities in SEM 4) Sept 29,…Continue Reading SEM and TEM lectures