STEM in Electron Optics
We are increasing the hourly fee for internal use of the S-TEM to $70/hr. This fee will help us offset the service contract cost and is consistent with fees for the same or similar equipment at other universities. The new fee will take effect on October 1st.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Abstract: This talk presents an overview of state-of-the-art capabilities of the aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (ac-STEM) at ACMAL, Michigan Tech. The FEI Titan Themis microscope we have here is one of a kind in the whole nation in terms of capabilities.
Tuesday, October 22 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Minerals and Materials Engineering Building (M&M), 610
1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931
The STEM is back online now and ready for use. We will pick up with the current reservations.
There was a power outage last night that has caused a problem with the STEM beam. We cancelled this mornings reservations and Pinaki is working on it. Hopefully its ready for this afternoon session. We will update at noon.
Some users require an 80kV beam voltage for biological samples. It isn’t possible to switch back and forth. Going from 80kv back to 200kV requires a period to stabilize again (overnight). Therefore, we are trying to schedule the 80kV experiments to Thursday and Friday each week.
Let me know if you don’t think this will work for you.
Due to some emergency situation in FEI, the service engineer is not coming next week. He’d be here during the week of 07/15.
If you want to book any time next week in STEM please contact me.
Thanks,
Pinaki
Pinaki Mukherjee
Engineer/Scientist
Materials Science & Engineering
O: 9064872637
C: 4028023154
FEI will be here next week to do routine maintenance on the Titan.
Expect Monday through Thursday.
The S-TEM will be serviced next week (Monday – Thursday) so unavailable for use. Please plan accordingly.
IT has rewritten the logbook system software. There are some great new features that we will appreciate. It isn’t ready for installation – on some systems we are going to have to upgrade the thin clients (little computer boxes) to use a newer web browser. We’ll do initial testing on the FIB since it gets less use. These instruments will be upgraded
FESEM
SEM
TEM
FIB
ESEM
Confocal (has newer client – may not need upgrading)
STEM (has newer client – may not need upgrading)
I’ll let you now when we are testing on the FIB.
We have installed a high-end PC in the M&M Rm 631A (grad computing lab) for accessing Titan image files. We have installed FEI Velox and Gatan software. The plan is to eventually install the JCPDS electron diffraction database too.