Course Outline
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy:
From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications
June 11-15, 2012
Sunday, June 10 (evening)
Day Three
Wednesday, June 13
5:00-8:00
Registration (Whitaker Lobby)
Day One
Monday, June 11
8:30-8:45
8:45-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-12:00
12:00
1:15-2:00
2:05-3:30
3:30-3:45
3:45-5:15
5:15
7:15-9:00
Welcome to STEM Course
Beam-Specimen Interactions
Break
Sources, Lenses, and Probe Formation
Lunch
Image Contrast in STEM
Laboratory: STEM Imaging
Break
Introduction to Diffraction
Dinner
Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry
8:30-9:15
9:15-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-11:15
11:15-12:00
12:00
1:15-2:30
Compositional Imaging
Electron Tomography
Break
Imaging EELS
Computer Demo: EELS Imaging
Lunch
Advanced Topics in CBED and
Dynamical Diffraction Theory
Break
Laboratory: EELS
Laboratory: CBED
Cocktail hour and banquet
Day Two
Tuesday, June 12
8:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-12:00
12:00
1:15-2:30
2:30-3:15
Quantitative EDS Analysis
Break
Laboratory: EDS
Lunch
Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry
Computer Demo: EELS
Spectroscopy I
Break
Convergent Beam Electron
Diffraction: Basics and Applications
Dinner
Computer Demo: EELS
Spectroscopy II
3:15-3:30
3:30-5:15
5:15
7:00-9:00
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:55
4:00-5:10
6:30
Day Four
Thursday, June 14
8:30-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:50
10:55-12:00
12:00
1:15-2:15
2:15-3:15
3:15-3:30
3:30-5:00
5:00
7:00-8:30
In-situ Experiments
Break
Photochip Demo
Demonstration of FIB Milling
Lunch
Principles of Aberration Correction I
HRTEM/STEM Image Simulation
Break
High Resolution Imaging Demo
Dinner
Image Simulation Demo
Day Five
Friday, June 15
8:30-9:30
9:30-10:30
Principles of Aberration Correction
Advanced Processing of Spectrum
Images: Multivariate Statistical
Analysis
Break
Specimen Preparation
Identification of Unknowns:
Questions and Answers
Lunch
Note: All classes and labs will be held in Whitaker Lab.
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:45
11:45-12:15
Disclaimer: The organizers reserve the right to change the
instrumentation or sequence of lecture topics and to cancel
lectures or substitute lecturers if necessitated by
circumstances beyond their control. Updated 9/16/11.
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