DC Area FIB SEM Users Group

2010 UGM Agenda

Agenda
February 25 & 26, 2010

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD

Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee Breaks and Happy Hour are sponsored by FEI Company, Bruker AXS, Kleindiek Nanotechnik, Angstrom Scientific, Carl Zeiss SMT, Omniprobe & JEOL.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
8:30 AM Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 AM Welcome
Morning
9:10 AM Stephan Kleindiek, Kleindiek Nanotechnik
Accelerating sample throughput: The Shuttle Platform for Sample Preparation
9:40 AM Lynne Gignac, IBM
Precision, double XTEM sample preparation of site specific Si nanowires
10:00 AM Tom Zega, NRL
FIB-SEM as an enabling tool for investigating the chemistry of the early solar system and thermodynamics of ancient stars
10:20 AM Nabil Bassim, NRL
Low-Damage Preparation of Carbonaceous Materials Using the Focused Ion Beam
10:40 AM COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM Jing Fu, NIH/NCI
Ion abrasion microscopy of biological cells, promises and challenges
(Please contact the organizers for the password.)
11:20 AM Michael Marko, Wadsworth Center
Cryo-FIB preparation for TEM cryo-tomography
11:40 AM Andras Vladar/Bin Ming, NIST
Nano-fabrication, nanometer-scale imaging and metrology with the Orion Scanning Helium Ion Microscope
Lunch
12:00 PM Lunch
Poster Session
1:00 PM Michael Anderson, NIST
STEM based structural characterization of layered incommensurate nanocomposites
Rocco Cerchiara, Fischione
Sample Preparation of Single and Multi-Phase Materials for Aberration-Corrected TEM/STEM
Bradley Degregorio, NRL
Applications and Advantages of FIB for the Study of Geological and Extraterrestrial Samples
Gavin Murphy, NIH/NCI
Ion Abrasion SEM: New methodological advances and applications to tissue imaging
Mark Twigg, NRL
Simulation and analysis of electron channeling contrast images (ECCI) recorded using an FEI 600 dual beam FIB equipped with an Oxford Nordlys EBSD detector
John Carpenter, EDAX
Focused Ion Beams for 3D and Surface Preparation in EBSD and EDS
Afternoon
2:20 PM Alex Buxbaum, FEI
New DualBeam Software for 3D Characterization
2:40 PM Matthew Weschler, JHT Instruments
HyperFIB! - Why Everyone Will Have One in 5 Years
3:00 PM Cheryl Hartfield, Omniprobe
Sample repositioning solutions for in situ preparation and analysis
3:20 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:40 PM Scott Sitzman, Oxford Instruments
3D EBSD in the FIB-SEM
4:00 PM Jerry Lehman, Carl Zeiss SMT
3D Reconstruction and Nano Patterning on a Crossbeam Workstation
4:20 PM Mike Marsh, Visualization Sciences Group
Advanced 3D Visualization and Analysis for FIB data with Avizo

4:40 PM Wrap-up of Day 1
5:00 PM Happy Hour at Dogfish Head (across the street from NIST main gate)
Friday, February 26th, 2010
8:30 AM Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 AM Lab tours
Tours will include NIST FIBs, Titan AEM, Helium Ion Microscope, CNST NanoFab Facility
10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:50 AM Group Discussions
3D visualization of FIB data sets: Tools & Needs
12:00 PM Adjourn

Organizers
Keana Scott, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nabil Bassim, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Ken Livi, Johns Hopkins University

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