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Workshops and Seminars


 

 

NCEM Seminars are held in building 72, room 201

Upcoming Seminars

 

 

 

 

Previous Seminars

Thursday, September 11, 2008 11AM

Elizabeth A. Withey

Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley

The Plastic Deformation of Gum Metal

 

Thursday, Aug. 14th, 2008 11 AM

Noël Haddad

Laboratoire d’études des microstructures, ONERA-CNRS, Châtillon, France

Optical response of some anisotropic ternary Mn+1AXn compounds

 

August 1st, 2008 at 11:00 am

Kenji Kaneko
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University,
744, Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.

Characterization of Precipitates in Al Alloys by three-dimensional electron tomography

 

July 31st, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Prof. Nobuo Tanaka
EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

Application of Cs-corrected TEM/STEM to Nano-Materials and Its Future Prospects

 

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 11:00 am

Dr. David Mitlin
University of Alberta &
NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology
Edmonton AB, Canada

Destabilized Magnesium-based Alloy Thin Films for Hydrogen Storage

 

Wednesday, April 9, 2008  3:00 PM

Sergey Yakovlev
Materials Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology

Low Loss EELS Imaging of Irradiation Sensitive Materials

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 (3:30 pm)

Damien Alloyeau
NCEM, LBNL

Quantitative TEM study of CoPt nanoparticles : Growth and size effect on order–disorder phenomena

 

April 2nd, 2008 11:00 AM

Gustaf Van Tendeloo

EMAT University of Antwerp

The ESTEEM project and work at EMAT-Antwerp

 

 

Friday March 21st at 3:00 pm.

Frances Allen
NCEM, LBNL
Electron Capture by Highly Charged Ions from Surfaces and Gases

 

Suhan Kim
NCEM, LBNL
FIB preparation of cross-sectional polymer thin film TEM samples

 

Dr. Jim De Yoreo
Deputy Director for Research, Molecular Foundry

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Physical controls on the assembly of biomolecular materials

 

Thursday February 14, 2008 11 AM


Meijie Tang
Materials Theory Group
Physical Sciences Directory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dislocation Escape and Size Dependent Strength in Micro-sized Single Crystals

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 3:30 PM       NCEM conference room (rm. 201), Building 72

Farid El Gabaly

NCEM, LBNL

Fundamental properties of materials: an ultrathin-film experimental approach

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 11:00 AM   NCEM conference room (rm. 201), Building 72

Mark Asta

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of California at Davis

First-Principles Modeling of Nano-Scale Precipitation-Strengthened Al Alloys

Tuesday December 18, 2007

Christian Liebscher
University Bayreuth, Metals and Alloys

Atomic site location and phase determination in Ni- and Pt-base alloys

 

Thursday December 6, 1:30PM (building 67 room 3111)

Harald Brune

Institute of the Physics of Nanostructures
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland

Seeking the Smallest Ferromagnet

 

Tuesday December 4, 11:00 AM

D. Kiener

Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-8700 Leoben,
Materials Center Leoben, Forschungs GmbH, A-8700 Leoben, Austria


Miniaturized compression and tensile testing in an electron microscope

 

Thursday November 1st, 11:00 AM

Robert Sinclair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles by High Resolution TEM

Monday October 17, 2007, 11:00 AM

Seiji Takeda
Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan

In-situ Environmental electron microscopy of the growth of one-dimensional nanostructures

 

Monday October 1st, 2007, 2:00 PM

Wilfried Sigle

Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung
Stuttgart, Germany

Band-gap measurements using EELS

Dislocations in SrTiO3

 

Friday August 10, 2007, 11:00 AM

Xavier Batlle

Dept. Física Fonamental  and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB),

Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona

 

MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES: A JOURNEY FROM 3D TO ZERO DIMENSIONS

 

Monday July 30, 2007, 11:00 AM

Dr. Alex Porter

Cambridge Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge.

Visualisation and Characterisation of Nanoscale Processes within Biological Systems

 

Thursday July 26, 2007, 11:00 AM

Daniel Lewis
Materials Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Meniscus Calculations in Materials

 

Monday July 23, 2007, 11:00 AM

E. Spiecker

Materials Science Institute
University of Kiel

Double-Wedge Technique for Quantitative TEM Analysis of 3D Structure and Buried Interfaces in Thin Films

 

Friday, July 20, 2007 3:00 pm

Colin Ophus

Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada


Shape Evolution of Crystalline Surfaces; Modified van der Drift Model and Exit Wave Reconstruction

 

Friday, July 20, 2007 3:30 pm

Erik Luber

Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada


Evolution and Reconstruction of Amorphous Surfaces; From AFM to atomistic deposition models

Thursday July 19, 2007, 11:00 AM

Rolf Erni

EMAT
University of Antwerp

Small Electron Probes and High Energy Resolution in Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy: Applications and Prospects for Nanoscience

 

Wednesday July 18, 2007, 11:00 AM

Quentin Ramasse

National Center for Electron Microscopy
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Angstrom-resolution Z-contrast imaging in STEM at NCEM: introducing the VG Lab

Wednesday July 11, 2007 11AM  

Anamika Prasad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sliding Contact at Plastically graded Surfaces and Applications to Surface Design

 

Tuesday July 10, 2007 1PM 

Dr. Alexander Weber
Department of physics at the University of British Columbia

Investigating functional properties of Porphyrin molecules absorbed on metal substrates

 

Friday June 29, 2007 2 PM

Andrew Martin

University of Melbourne

Phase imaging with electrons

 

Thursday April 19, 2007, 11:00 AM

Jannik Meyer

Materials Science Department, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, and Physics Department University of California, Berkeley

Structural analysis of graphene membranes and carbon nanotube devices

 

Thursday April 12, 2007, 11:00 AM

Cathrine Frandsen

Assistant Professor
Technical Unversity of Denmark

Magnetic Properties and Oriented Aggregation of Nanocrystals of a-Fe2O

 

 

April 5th, 2007, 11:00 AM

Marta Rosell

NCEM

Oxygen ordering in Sr4Fe6O12+d compounds

 

 

March 22, 2007, 3:00 PM

Baris Unal
Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory. Ames, IA 50011.

Atomic Level Structures in and on Quasicrystals

 

March 8th, 2007, 11:00 AM

Farid El Gabaly
SPLEEM Lab, NCEM, LBNL

Ultrathin Cobalt Films on Ruthenium (0001): Growth, Structure, and Magnetism

 

February 22, 2007, 11:00AM

J. Buha

 

JSPS* Fellow

*Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Natural ageing in Mg-Zn(-Cu) alloys

January 18th, 2007, 11AM

 

Thomas LaGrange

University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550,USA  

Nanosecond Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscopy (DTEM)

December 7th, 2006, 11:00AM

Emmanuelle Marquis

LLNL

Alloy Structures at the Atomic Scale: Atom Probe Tomography

 

November 16, 2006, 11:00AM

Eva Olsson

Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE- 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

In-situ Probing of Electron Transport Properties Using TEM-STM

 

October 19th, 2006

Bahram Parvin

LBL

"Imaging and Informatics"

 

October 3, 2006

Quentin Ramasse

NCEM

The Nion-Corrected VG STEM at NCEM: a high-resolution tool for structural analysis.

 

September 29th, 2006, 11:00AM

Kevin Moore

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TEM, STEM, and synchrotron radiation as tools to refine theoretically predictive models of materials

 

September 28th, 2006

Masashi Watanabe

Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 18015.

Recent Progress on X-ray Analysis for Materials Characterization in Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes

 

August 24th, 2006 

Dominique Chatain

CRMCN-CNRS, Marseille, France

Anisotropy in Wetting Phenomena

 

August 14th, 2006

Judith C. Yang

Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261

The Surface Dynamics of the Early Stages of Oxidation of Cu and Cu-Au Thin Films

 

July 13, 2006

Ulrike G.K. Wegst

Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany

FIB and X-ray microtomography applied to biological materials: Structural investigations in 3D and in situ mechanical testing   

 

June 22, 2006

D. Sudfeld

Departments of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

TEM characterization of InGaAs Nanowhiskers

 

June 1, 2006

Peter J. Fischer

Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Imaging ultrafast spin dynamics at the nanoscale with magnetic soft X-ray microscopy"

 

May 4th, 2006

Toyohiko J.Konno

Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan

"Recent progress in the TEM observation on age-hardened alloys"

 

April 24th, 2006

Saso Sturm

Jozef Stefan Institute, Department for Nanostructured Materials, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Quantitative HRTEM and HAADF-STEM Analysis of Ruddlesden-Popper Planar Faults in Non-Stoichiometric SrTiO3

 

April 17, 2006

Colin Ophus

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G6, Canada

Gas-Sensor Cantilevers Synthesized from Ni-V-Zr Nanocomposites

 

April 17, 2006

Nathaniel Nelson-Fitzpatrick

National Institute of Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Fabrication and Characterization of Ultra Thin Resonant Nanocantilevers in Aluminium-Molybdenum Composites

 

April 17, 2006

Chris Boothroyd

Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

"The Stobbs factor"

 

April 13, 2006

Christoph Mitterbauer

Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, U.C. Davis

"EELS and VEELS using a monochromated (S)TEM"

 

March 30, 2006

Chris Edgcombe

Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

Modelling field emission - comparison of semi-classical and atomic models.

 

March 23, 2006

Hamei Zheng

University of California, Berkeley

"Dynamics of nanocrystal growth in solution"

 

March 9, 2006

Konrad Thuermer

Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

"Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks"

 

February 16th, 2006

Kevin J. Hemker

Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

"Experimental observations of nanoscale deformation and fracture mechanisms"

 

February 9th, 2006, 11:00AM

Warren MoberlyChan

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"Advanced FIB Processing Applications"

 

February 2nd, 2006

Mark Allen

Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

"Biomineralization inside a plant virus: probing the protein mineral interface by TEM"

 

January 26th, 2006

Takahito Ohmura

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

"Evaluation of strengthening factors of Fe-C martensitic steels using nanoindentation technique"

 

January 19th, 2006

Warren MoberlyChan

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"Imaging  Defects (or not) in  Nanometer-scale  Semiconductor  Crystals: Statistical Nucleation Events are Few in Small Crystals, but can Control Growth"

 

December 16th, 2005

Dmitri O. Klenov

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

"Solving materials problems with advanced transmission electron microscopy"

 

December 8th, 2005

Shriram Ramanathan

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

"Studies on high-dielectric constant metal-oxides for applications in nano-electronics"

 

December 2nd, 2005

H. Saka 

Department of Quantum Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

"Nanoworlds as explored by in-situ TEM and FIB/TEM"

 

October 27th, 2005

Peng Zhang 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley

"Analysis of nano-scale stress in silicon microelectronics devices by convergent beam electron diffraction technique

- a demo of recent work on Libra® TEM of NCEM"

 

September 22nd 2005

Yu Sato

Dept. of Physics, University of California, Davis

"A Novel Phase Separation for Pb/Ge(111) - Low Energy Electron Microscopy of Pb/Ge(111) Phase Transitions"

 

September 16th 2005

Alexei E. Romanov

University of California at Santa Barbara

A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg

"Modeling Misfit and Threading Dislocations in Epitaxial Heterostructures"

 

September 8th 2005

Erdmann Spiecker

NCEM & The University of Kiel, Germany

"A Novel TEM Method for Large-Area Analysis of Misfit-Dislocation Networks in Semiconductor Heterostructures"

 

September 1st 2005

Zonghoon Lee

NCEM

"Bimodal Nanocrystalline Al Alloys; the Deformation and Failure Mechanism"

 

August 11th, 2005

Baris Unal

The Ames Laboratory and Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

"Quasicrystals and Surface Evolution of an Icosahedral Quasicrystal"

 

, July 27th, 2005

Jodie Bradby

Australia National University, Canberra, Australia

"Nanoindentation of Semiconductors"

 

July 21st, 2005

Liangfeng Fu

University of California, Davis

"The Atomic Scale Characterization of Different Heterointerfaces with TEM/STEM/Z-contrast/EELS"

 

July 14th, 2005

Mitsuhiro Takeda

Miyagi National College of Technology

"Development of high speed and energy-intensive mill"

 

 

July 7th, 2005

Farid El Gabaly

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

"Cu on Ru(0001): The Importance of Threading Dislocations on the

Motion of Domain Boundaries in Thin Films"

 

June 30th, 2005

Qibin Yang

Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics

Xiangtan University, Xiangtan Hunan 411105, China  

"Electron Dynamical Diffraction and Structure Reconstruction"

 

May 26th, 2005

Velimir Radmilovic

NCEM

"Precipitate evolution and coarsening kinetics in Al-Sc-Zr Alloys"

 

May 19th, 2005

Quentin Ramasse

NCEM

"Diagnosis of aberrations in STEM"

 

May 12th, 2005

Brian Demczyk

Maxtor

"Structure and Mechanical Properties of sp2-Bonded Nanotubes"

 

May 5th, 2005

Andreas Heinrich

IBM Almaden Research Center    

 

April 7th, 2005

John Balk

Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky

"New Insights into Thin Film Plasticity by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy"

 

March 31st, 2005 (11:00am)

Takeharu Kato

Japan Fine Ceramics Center

"Nanostructural Characterization of YBa2Cu3O7-x Coated Conductor Fabricated by combination of Pulsed-Laser Deposition and Ion-Beam-Assisted Deposition"

 

March 24th, 2005

Bostjan Jancar

Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Slovenija

"Crystal structure and microstructural characteristics of CaTiO3-NdAlO3-based ceramics"

 

March 17th, 2005

Yizheng Wu

Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

"Quantum well states in Cu thin film grown on fcc Co(001)"

 

March 3rd, 2005

Teruyasu Mizoguchi

NCEM

"Experimental and Theoretical ELNES and XANES: Application to Materials Science"

 

February 25th, 2005

Douglas Medlin

Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California

"Surface and Interface Research in the Materials Physics Group at SNL/CA"

and

John Hamilton

Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California

"Theoretical Studies of Faceted Interfaces and Inclusions"

 

February 18th, 2005 (3:00 PM)

Alok Singh

Aperiodic Materials Group, Materials Engineering Laboratory

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

"Twinning and the Orientation Relationships of Icosahedral Phase with Magnesium Matrix"

 

February 18th, 2005 (4:00 PM)

William Soffa

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia

"On the Nature of the Massive Transformation: Some New Perspectives"

 

February 10th, 2005

Kevin McCarty

Sandia National Laboratory

"Real-time studies of surface dynamics using low-energy electron microscopy"

 

February 3rd, 2005

Erol Girt

Seagate Technology, Inc.

"Magnetization reversal in nano-structured materials"

 

January 18th, 2005

JC Barry

PicaMS Pty Ltd

"Composition and structure of nickel sulfide inclusions in glass and relationship to spontaneous fracture"

 

January 13th, 2005

John Cumings

Stanford University

"Seeing Nanosystems"

 

December 16, 2004

Rongming Wang

Peking University, Beijing, China

"TEM investigation of FePt nanoparticles and Fe2O3 bicrystalline nanowires"

 

December 9, 2004

Nam-Hee Cho

Inha University, Inchon, Korea

"Control of the grain boundary features of semiconducting oxides synthesized from surface-coated powders"

 

November 11, 2004

Rolf Erni

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis

"Local characterization of materials using VEELS and core-loss EELS"

 

November 4, 2004

Alexander Ziegler

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis

"Time-resolved TEM: Capabilities and Limitations"

 

October 28, 2004

Joerg Jinschek

NCEM

"Probing Local Stoichiometry in InGaN based Quantum Wells of solid-state LEDs"

 

October 21, 2004

Qing Yang

UC Berkeley

"Electron Tomography of Microelectronic Device Structures"

 

October 5, 2004

David Mitlin

University of Alberta, Edmonton

"Transmission Electron Microscopy Based Study of Epitaxy in Nb/(001)Cu Bi-Layer and Cu/Nb/(001)Cu Tri-Layer Nano-Scale Films"

 

October 1, 2004

Jimmy Liu

Monsanto

"Microscopy of Nanoscale Catalysts"

 

 
NCEM Summer 2004 Seminar Series on:

"Electron Microscopy of Biological and Organic Materials"

(May-July 2004)

 

July 29, 2004

Alexandra Porter

NCEM

 

July 22, 2004

Alberto Salleo

Palo Alto Research Center

 

July 15, 2004

Melissa Jurica

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

June 17, 2004

Nitash Balsara

University of California, Berkeley

 

June 3, 2004

Henning Stahlberg

University of California, Davis

 

May 20, 2004

Eva Nogales

University of California, Berkeley

"Electron microscopy and 3-D reconstruction of large macromolecular assemblies"

 

November 12, 11 am

Peter Moeck

Portland State University, Department of Physics

"Atomic ordering in semiconductor quantum dots:

Opportunities for creating novel crystallographic phases and problems with their identification by TEM"

 

October 30, 11 am

Processes and Practices for Three Dimensional Analysis of Materials at the Nanoscale

M. Weyland

University of Cambridge, UK

 

October 16, 11 am

Daan Hein Alsem

Combining on-chip testing and electron microscopy to obtain a mechanistic understanding of fatigue and wear in microelectromechanical systems

 

October 13, 3 pm

REM investigation of the Dynamics of Steps on Silicon

J-J. Métois

Campus de Luminy, Marseille, FRANCE

 

September 17, 11 am

TEM of Epitaxial Thin Films Controlled by Planes Extending (near) Normal to Interface; with Application to 2 Methods to Reduce Crystal Orientations in Polycrystalline Magnetic Media

Warren MoberlyChan

Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures, Harvard University, USA

 

July 17, 3 p.m.

Brownian Motion of Nanoscale Liquid Lead Inclusions in Aluminum

Erik Johnson

Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 

May 16, 11 a.m.

Focused-ion-beam nanomanipulation of growth processes

Martim Kammler

IBM, Yorktown

 

May 13, 11 a.m.

Advanced TEM Characterization of Nanoscale Materials

Mike Treacy

NEC Research Institute, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey

 

May 2 at 11:00 a.m

FIB TEM SAMPLE PREPARATION OPTIMIZED FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYTICAL TEM

Max Sidorov

AMD, Sunnyvale, USA

 

May 1 at 11:00 a.m.,

.The evolution of coherent particles with and without the influence of stress

H. A Calderon, N. Clement*

Ciencia de Materiales ESFM-IPN, Mexico, *CEMES-CNRS Toulouse, France.

 

April 30 at 1:30 p.m.,

.Focused ion beam sample preparation - problems and potential

Andrew M. Minor

Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

 

April 28, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.STRUCTURE AND MAGNETISM OF GAS-PHASE SINTERED FEPT NANOPARTICLES

S. Stappert, B. Rellinghaus, M. Acet, E. F. Wassermann

Exp. Low Temperature Physics, University Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 1, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany

 

April 23, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.The future of electron microscopy in nanoscience

Dirk Van Dyck, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 

April18, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

A POTENTIAL MECHANISM BY WHICH SILICON INCREASES THE RATE OF BONE APPOSITION TO HYDROXYAPATITE IN VIVO

Alexandra E. Porter

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK

 

April17, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Phase Transformation of TiO2 Precipitates in Sapphire and Morphology/Interface-Structure of Mo5Si3 Precipitates in MoSi2

Siqun Xiao, Applications Manager, KLA-Tencor

 

April15, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Electron Microscopy, Electron Spectroscopy And Dual Beam FIB-SEM Technology Applied To Materials Characterization And Materials Science

Edward Principe

 

March 6, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Incommensurate grain boundaries in metals.

Synergy between electron microscopy and atomistic modeling.

Frédéric Lançon

NCEM and Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée CEA-Grenoble

 

February 13, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Design concepts for the TEAM project

Bernd Kabius

Argonne National Laboratory

 

January 30, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Structure and defects of grain boundaries in alumina

Sylvie LARTIGUE KORINEK

CECM-CNRS, UPR 2801, VITRY SUR SEINE, France

 

January 13, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.TEM Investigations of Materials Issues in Advanced Interconnect Structures

Mark Williamson

 

Tursday, January 9, 2003, at 11:00 a.m.,

.Metal mediated formation of nanostructures in Si

Seiji Takeda

Graduate School of Science, Osaka University

 

December 19, 11 a.m.

.Yield Management in Integrated Circuit (IC) Processing

Siqun Xiao

 

Glass Forming Ability and Quasi Crystal Forming Ability: A Comparative Study in Zirconium and Hafnium Based Alloys

S. Ranganathan

Department of Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

 

December 10, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

Quantitative high resolution microscopy studies of GaN and related alloys

Pierre Ruterana

Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Matériaux, LERMAT-ISMRA , 6, Bd Maréchal Juin, 14050 Caen, France

 

 

,December 6, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Misfit Dislocations in Nano-Scale Ni-Cu Films

David Mitlin,

Amit Misra, Mike Nastasi, Richard Hoagland and Terry Mitchell

Los Alamos National Laboratory, MST-8

 

, November 25, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Intergranular Layer Structure and Fracture Toughness of a High Purity Silicon Nitride

A. Ziegler

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 9455

 

 

, November 22, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Strain Relaxation and Dislocation Introduction in Highly Lattice Mismatched Heteroepitaxy

Vidyut Gopal

Purdue University and Applied Materials

 

 

November 21, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Sintering process of a SOFC core: Encountered problems and solutions

Alain Thorel

Centre des Matériaux, Ecole des Mines de Paris, FRANCE

 

 

October 17, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

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Study of SrTiO3 bicrystals substrates and YBa2Cu3O7 epitaxial thin film grain boundaries :

Influence of the growth on the grain boundary structure

J.Ayache

CNRS-CSNSM_IN2P3 Orsay, France

 

, October 15, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Samples preparation for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in materials science:

Witch technique solves what kind of problems?

Danièle Laub

 

, September 30, 2002, at 3:00 p.m.,

.

Dopant Diffusion and Defect Formation in III-V Compound Semiconductors

Wolfgang Jäger and Christian Jäger

Center for Microanalysis, Materials Science and Engineering,, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, D-24143 Kiel, Germany, wj@tf.uni-kiel.de

 

 

September 26, 2002, at 11:00 a.m.,

.

Segregation and grain growth in doped polycrystalline alumina

Mehmet A. Gulgun

Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

 

August 22 at 11:00 a.m.

.

Nanoanalysis for Nano-materials (-devices)

Fu-Rong Chen and J. J. Kai

Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

 

 

August 15, 11 am

NCEM conference room

Size-dependent equilibrium shape of Co-Cr particles in Cu

Toshiyuki Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 

August 1, 2002, at 11:00 am

Microstructure Features of Bio-mineral and Bio-ceramics Studied by HRTEM

Shulin Wen

 

3pm Thursday April 25, 2002

Yuichi Ikuhara

Grain Boundary Character and Atomic Structures in Oxide Bicrystals

 

3pm Thursday March 07, 2002

Y. Liu

Solving the structural mysteries of materials by TEM

 

3pm February 27, 2002

Perena Gouma

Structural Stability of Polymorphic Ceramic Oxides

 

3pm Thursday February 21, 2002

Seth Taylor

TEM-Based Studies of Solute Segregation in Ti-Doped Sapphire Bicrystals

 

3pm February 19, 2002

Xiaoyuan Hu

Dewetting of ultrathin Pt films and embedding of Pt nanoparticles induced by ion irradiation

 

4pm January 25, 2002

David Muller

Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy of Dopant Atoms inside Crystalline Materials

 

3pm Thursday January 17, 2002

Uli Dahmen

Recent progress on Brownian motion of liquid Pb inclusions in solid Al

 

3pm Thursday January 10, 2002

Andreas K. Schmid

Quantitative spin-polarized low energy electron microscopy

 

December 05, 2001

Nigel Browning

Atomic Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

 

Thursday November 29, 2001

Peggy Hou

Chemical and Morphological Changes at Growing Al2O3/Alloy Interfaces

 

November 19, 2001

Ning Cheng

Epitaxial growth, structure, exchange bias properties and domain images in Fe/PdMn system

 

November 19, 2001

Haifeng Ding

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

 

Thursday November 15, 2001

Xiao Feng Zhang

Characterization of nanometer wide intergranular films in hot-pressed ABC-SiC

 

November 02, 2001

Michael Farle

Magnetic domains of Fe/Ni bi-layers on Cu(001) imaged by SPLEEM

 

October 30, 2001

Ray Egerton

Nanotechnology and EELS at the University of Alberta

 

Thursday October 25, 2001

C. Kisielowski

Exit Wave Reconstruction, Z-contrast microscopy, Cs Correction: Case studies with novel techniques that improve our understanding of atomic scale processes

 

Thursday October 04, 2001

Chris Muhlstein

Fatigue of Silicon Structural Films

 

Thursday September 27, 2001

Zahid Hussain

Synchrotron Radiation Research at the Advanced Light Source

 

Thursday September 20, 2001

Michael A. O'Keefe

Sub-Ångstrom Microscopy with the NCEM One Ångstrom Microscope

 

Thursday September 06, 2001

Gerd Schneider

Computer tomography of cells based on X-ray microscopic images

 

August 20, 2001

Hannes Lichte

The Triebenberg Lab

 

August 15, 2001

G. Duscher

Atoms and Electrons at Interfaces

 

August 14, 2001

Gianluigi Botton

Analytical TEM outside Materials Science

 

August 13, 2001

Sousan Abolhassani

Mechanism of Oxidation of Zirconium and its alloys

 

August 10, 2001

Nobuo Tanaka

Recent Developments of HAADF-STEM of Advanced Materials, including 3D STEM

 

10am Thursday July 19, 2001

Robert Klie

Nano-Scale Characterization of oxide Material by Atomic Resolution Z-Contrast Imaging and EELS

 

Thursday June 28, 2001

Paul C. McIntyre

Kinetic Phenomena and Structure-Property Relations in Thin Film Electronic Materials

 

Thursday June 21, 2001

Tamara Radetic

HREM Observation of the Relaxation of Grain Boundaries in Au and at their Intersections with Free Surfaces

 

Thursday June 14, 2001

Karla Balzuweit

Calaverite and a history on breaking 3-D symmetry in crystals

 

Thursday June 07, 2001

Dick McDonald

The Nuclear Secrets of the Low-Background Facility

 

Thursday May 31, 2001

John Spence

Getting complex images from microdiffraction patterns - a solution to the phase problem for non-periodic objects

 

Thursday May 24, 2001

Andrew Minor

Quantitative in-situ Nanoindentation

 

Thursday May 10, 2001

Andreas Schmid

Dynamics of Nanostructures at Surfaces

 

Thursday May 03, 2001

Kazutaka Mitsuishi

He and Ar irradiation of Xe precipitate in Al

 

Thursday April 26, 2001

Manfred Ruhle

HRTEM of SrTiO3

 

Thursday April 19, 2001

J.ThM. De Hosson

Interface dislocations and bonding

 

April 11, 2001

Serge Hagege

Pb-Void Inclusions in Si

 

 

For more information, please contact:

Jane Cavlina
National Center for Electron Microscopy, MS 72-150
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel.: (510) 486-6036
Fax: (510) 486-5888
Email: jlcavlina@lbl.gov

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