Current news from IMRI facilities
//The camera worked well for two days. The same problem happened again on 4/6/2012. The camera was taken off from the TEM and packed on the same day. Gatan service director was informed. He responded quickly. The paperwork was done on 4/10/2012 and the camera shipped to the company on the same day.
//TEM CCD camera was down today. Gatan engineer did an on-line diagnosis and concluded that the A/D board was out of order. The problem is the same as the one occurred last month. Gatan is going to repair it without any charge. I have asked Gatan to ship a loaner camera to us so that TEM down time can be reduced. I have emailed Gatan contact and am waiting for her response.
//The multi-stub holder is locked into the stage mount so it cannot be removed. If you only need to use the multi-stub holder, the instrument will work fine, as normal. But if you need to use the single stub holder or the TEM prep holder, you will have to wait until the part is replaced. The target date to fix this is Mon, 3/19. An update will come when it is fixed.
//There is a vacuum problem. I have contacted service engineer and asked for a new part. Waiting for response.
//MC2 TEM chiller was down on 27. Parts were ordered on the same day and will arrive on 2/29.
//It was reported on 2/27/2012 that the XRD had a very high noise/background. For several tests, the results remain the same. The results were sent to Bruker engineer. Waiting for response.
//Here is the Message from Dr. John Port together with the SCSMM Symposium schedule
Just a reminder – the SCSMM Meeting is coming up on March 3 at CalTech. Full details are available at: www.scsmm.org
We have a full day of talks and 16 posters this year for what will be an excellent meeting. The final platform program and poster program are attached. Our National Tour Speaker this year is David Williams, co-author of the text book Transmission Electron Microscopy.
One of our student presenters has created a Facebook link. You can use it to notify all your friends! https://www.facebook.com/events/284962681560521/
If you do intend to come, please don’t forget to register. Details on our web site!
On behalf of our board, we hope to see you all at the meeting.
John Porter
President SCSMM
2012 Symposium Schedule
07:30 – 08:50 Registration
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome address
09:00 – 09:30 Structure and dissection of biological complexes in situ using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy
Morgan Beeby, California Institute of Technology
09:30 – 10:00 Electron Tomography of HIV in Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissues
Mark Ladinsky, California Institute of Technology
10:00 – 10:15 Vendor Talk – Gene Griggs, FEI
10:00 – 10:15 Vendor Talk – Scott Sitzman, Oxford Instruments
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Sponsored by Oxford Instruments
11:00 – 11:30 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Incandescent Lamps and Liquid Water
Chris Regan, University California at Los Angeles
11:30 – 12:15 Reflections on Microscopy & Analysis: From Viewing the Small World to Leading on a Larger Stage
David Williams, The Ohio State University
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch Break, Vendor Exhibits and Graduate Student Poster Judging
Sponsored By FEI
13:30 – 13:45 Business Meeting
13:45 – 15:00 Five Student Presentations:
Effect of Water Vapor on Non-Ideal Oxide Growth in NiCoCrAlY Bond
Coat Systems, Matthew Sullivan, UCI
Fluorescence microscopy in thick biological tissues by optical phase
conjugation of ultrasound-tagged light, Yingmin Wang, CalTech
Magnetization Dependence on Crystallinity in Nanostructured
Gadolinium, Chin-Jui Ray Hsu, UCLA
Structural, mass, and elemental analyses of storage granules in
methanogenic archaeal cells, Dan Toso, UCLA
Bioremediation applications of microbial fuel cells utilizing Shewanella
oneidensis MR-1, Prithiviraj Chellamuthu, USC
15:00 – 15:30 Electron Cryo-Tomography Studies of Sporulating Bacteria, Elitza Tocheva, California Institute of Technology
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
Sponsored by Edax
16:00 – 16:15 Vendor Talk or extension of Poster Session
16:15 – 16:30 Vendor Talk, Jack Rosek, Edax
16:30 – 17:00 Chemical and structural analysis on the sub-nanometer scale using highresolution STEM and atom probe field microscopy – A case study of GaNAlN, Stephan Kraemer, University California at Santa Barbara
17:00 – 17:30 Student Awards Presentations and Closing Statement
//The image acquisition problem has been fixed as of Mon, 2/20, and all EDS and EBSD capabilities have been restored to their usual status.
//The EDS and EBSD software cannot acquire an image so any functionality relying on image acquisition (e.g. point & ID and mapping modes in EDS, mapping in EBSD) has been lost (2/17/12). Spectra can still be acquired in EDS without image acquisition. Oxford will be contacted and the problem addressed following the Presidents Day Weekend
//The TEM camera suddenly stopped working this afternoon. Just emailed Gatan engineer. Waiting for his response