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IN-VSEE is a consortium of university
and industry scientists and engineers, community college and high school
science faculty and museum educators with a common vision of creating an
interactive World Wide Web (WWW) site to develop a new educational thrust
based on remote operation of advanced microscopes and nano-fabrication
tools coupled to powerful surface characterization methods.
It has developed three web-accessible resources:
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Remotely operabable scanning probe microscope
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Collection of multidisciplinary educational modules
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Visualization gallery
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ASU offers programs
in SPM to undergraduates as well as graduate students. These instruments
provide an unparalleled opportunity to interactively learn about and visualize
surfaces and surface properties at resolutions down to the atomic scale. |
| The goal of the Women's Images of Science and Engineering
(WISE) is to attract and retain girls and women into careers in science
and engineering. The target populations are middle school, highschool andcommunity
college students. It focuses on providing participants with hands-on experiences
using state-of-the-art imaging technologies which demonstrate how scientists
and engineers explore structure, property and function of materials through
images using scanning tunneling, atomic force, electron and optical microscopes. |
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Partnership for Research in
Stereo Modeling
PRISM is an interdisciplinary laboratory serving research and graduate
level teaching needs at ASU in the area of three-dimensional computer-aided
design and rapid prototyping. PRISM provides an umbrella for research in
three domains: Data acquisition (via 3D scanning, medical diagnostics,
radar, etc.), visualization and modeling, and rapid prototyping. |
Patterns
in Nature Van Mobile Laboratory
The Patterns in Nature (PiN) Van is a mobile microscope workstation
and educational teaching aid. The PiN Van uses microscopy to show students
the patterns that exist in nature, and that these patterns are repeated
at many levels of scale and in many unexpected ways. The PiN Van provides
opportunities to expose students to microscopy and visualization using
state of the art microscopes, generally used by researchers. It is also
used for professional development for teachers. |
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Optical Microscopy
Laboratory at the Centre for Solid State Science provides a microscopic
tour where you can discover new and interesting things about the ordinary
things around us. View an actual specimen under a microscope in the laboratory,
and drive the microscope yourself. |
| The Center for Solid
State Science (CSSS) was established by the Arizona Board of Regents
in 1974. Major goals of the Center then and now are: to encourage and support
interdisciplinary materials research; to contribute to the academic program
of the University by providing an environment where students gain hands-on
experience and exposure to interdisciplinary laboratories and procedures;
and to organize, develop, operate and administer user-oriented facilities
for performance of multidisciplinary materials research. |
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Scientific Imaging for Middle Schools
The SIMS project partnered two seventh grade classes in different school
districts from the Phoenix Metropolitan area with ASU staff to create an
attractive entry for teachers and students into an integrated approach
to science and math. Scientific Imaging is the theme and microscopes, including
Optical Microscopes, Electron Microscopes and Scanning Probe Microscopes
were used. Students had an opportunity to operate these state of the art
scientific tools to create their own images. They also used computers to
analyze, measure and manipulate images.
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NANO-IMAGING
Welcome to the
Nanoworld
"The Center for Microscopy and Microanalysis is an interdisciplinary
research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure
and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macro
molecular scales."
The Nanoworld
Image Gallery
We trust that some of these images will assist you in your teaching
and or general education
SPM Images
These images have all been taken by IFR SPM Group
The Molecular
Expressions Photo Gallery
Our gallery contains hundreds of examples of full color photomicrographs
(photographs taken through a microscope) selected from our many collections
Chemist’s Art Gallery
Welcome to the Chemist’s Art Gallery containing Spectacular visualization
and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory
at CSC by the Visualization Group and group at other locations.
Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy
Scientists discovered a new method for confining electrons to artificial
structures at the nanometer lengthscale. In the STM Image Gallery,
you will find a collection of really nice visualizations of all sorts of
different surfaces.
MicroScapes
Gallery
MicroScapes brings you the world too small for the human eye in a series
of photographs taken through high power microscopes. At this level of magnification
the everyday objects of our lives take on an unrecognizable and sometimes
artistic appearance.
Cells Alive
Image gallery of cells, tiny creatures and a lot more.
Nanodiamonds
Using particle beams, a "carbon onion," a structure consisting of nested
fullerene-like balls, can be converted into a diamond. Here a growing diamond
can be
seen inside concentric graphitic layers. The diamonds can assume sizes
of up to 100 nanometers. (Image courtesy of Florian Banhart, Max Planck
Institute in
Stuttgart, Germany.)
Nanotechnology
Graphics
American Institute of Physics nanotechnology graphics
SPM Gallery
Interesting images by scanning probe microscopes.
Digital Instruments
Digital Instruments is the world's leading manufacturer of scanning
probe microscopes. Users are free to download text, images and bibliographies
from our Web Site. Use of any of this information in published materials
requires the written permission of Digital Instruments as well as appropriate
recognition of Digital Instruments as the supplier of the information.
Check out the Nano Theatre, it’s very cool!
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Cornell
University
World's smallest silicon mechanical devices are made at Cornell
Smallest guitar, about the size of a human blood cell, illustrates
new technology for nano sized electromechanical devices
Nanotechnology
Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those
products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms
in coal we can make diamond. If we rearrange the atoms in sand (and add
a few other trace elements) we can make computer chips. If we rearrange
the atoms in dirt, water and air we can make potatoes.
Nano Technology Magazine
"The Technology of the 21st Century"
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
The center for nanoscale science and technology at Rice University is
devoted to nurturing science and technology at the nanometer scale.
National Center of Competence in
Research (NCCR)
“Nanoscale Science” as a National Center of Competence in
Research (NCCR) is a long-term interdisciplinary research effort focusing
on nanoscale structures and aiming to provide new impact and ideas for
the life sciences, for the sustainable use of resources, and for information
and communications technologies. Within the NCCR, the University of
Basel has the role of a leading house, maintaining a network of university
institutes, federal research institutes and industrial partners in which
scientists from a wide variety of disciplines work closely together.
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SPM RELATED SITES
Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory
This laboratory provides Dr. James Mantovani and other material science
researchers with the capability to image the surface structure of a solid,
and to probe
its electronic surface properties down to the atomic scale. The scanning
tunneling microscope utilizes differences in the local electronic properties
of a surface to
yield images that provide a three-dimensional mapping of the surface
topography. The atomic force microscope produces images of the surface
of virtually any
material by monitoring the interatomic forces acting between the probe
tip and the sample's surface. In addition to using the scanning probe microscopes
to
provide various kinds of images of surfaces, this laboratory also investigates
novel applications of these instruments, e.g. in the area of electrochemical
deposition, and is interested in the development of other types of
scanning probe microscopes.
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Linkoping University
Welcome to Linkoping University Scanning Probe Microscopy Home Page
Determination Of SPM
Tip Shape Using Polystyrene Latex Balls
In scanning probe microscopy (SPM) the imaging of the structure of
tip apex in mesoscopic scale is extremely important. The present paper
offers a simple way
for estimating the shape of SPM tips. A standard sample consisting
of a close packed monolayer of small polystyrene latex balls is used to
characterise the tip
shape. The image formation process is simulated by a matrix "convolution"
method and the dependence of the SPM image on the tip shape is studied
by calculating
images of the test sample. Real pictures taken on the same test samples
were used to calculate the shape of the tip utilising the known shape and
size of the latex
balls.
Surface Chemistry, Surface Physics,
And Nanotechnology In The Weiss Group
We focus on gaining an atomic-scale understanding of surface interactions
and dynamics. In particular, we use and extend scanning tunneling microscopy
to explore the surface structures, motion, and perturbations due to adsorbed
atoms and molecules and to surface features such as steps and defects.
North Carolina State University Scanning
Probe Microscopy Home Page
Welcome to the North Carolina State University Scanning Probe Microscopy
Home Page
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TELEPRESENCE IN MICROSCOPY
Virtual
Nanoscience Laboratory
The project Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory plans the realization of
a virtual nanoscience laboratory consisiting of three virtual experiments
to give an insight into the methods of nanophysics and nanotechnology
to undergraduate students of different disciplines. The virtual experiments
are presented within the scope of a co-operative learning environment.
Tele-Presence
Microscopy Project Visitor's Gallery
A gallery of images obtained from tele-presence microscopy (TPM).
Includes brief description of TPM. Some links in web-site under
construction.
NIST/NAMT TelePresence
Microscopy Site Materials MicroCharacterization Collaboratory
NIST NanoMetrology / ANL Materials Science; offers teleconferencing
features using Cu-SEEME with software download page, "Materials MicroCharacterization
Collaboratory" link, has brief description of project with links to institutes
and facilities involved in the project;
CyberStem: The
Virtual Electron Microscope
Offers on-line scanning and transmission electron microscopy via video-conferencing.
Includes videoconference software download page for, and videoconference
schedule and information. Has image gallery of semiconductors devices
and fruit fly.
Science and Engineering
Electron Microscopy Centre Links
List of microscopy links with brief description of each link.
San Diego State
Electron Microscope Facility
Provides instructions in the use of electron microscopes. Offers
laboratory tours to public. Author to be contacted for further information.
EMSL
Collaboratory
PNNL Collaboratory Team page, has electronic notebook, online instruments,
and software download area for online operation.
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