SCSMM Full-Day Symposium, March 11, 2010

Be there!  More details at www.scsmm.org

Beckman Institute

California Institute of Technology

Schedule

08:00 – 12:00      Registration, Continental Breakfast
Selection bagels, sweet rolls, mini croissants and mini-muffins along with tea, coffee, and juice

08:25      Welcome

08:30 – 09:00      Analytical Electron Microscopy of Zeolite Nucleation and Growth From Amorphous Gels
Krassimir Bozhilov, University of California, Riverside

09:00 – 09:30      Root Cause Analysis of Tungsten-Induced Protein Aggregation in Pre-filled Syringes
Gianni Torraca, Amgen

09:30 – 10:00      Failure Analysis of Semiconductor Laser Diodes
Brendan Foran, Aerospace Corp.

10:00 – 10:30       Coffee Break
All participants are invited to visit the Vendor Display tables

10:30 – 11:00      Nano-Mineralogy by Advanced Electron Microscopy: Discovering New Minerals in the Early Solar System
Chi Ma,  California Institute of Technology

11:00 – 12:00      Four (Under) Graduate Student Presentations:

Novel Nanostructures for Enhanced Endotheliazation on Bare-Metallic Stent Wire
Marianna Loya, University of California, San Diego

EBSD Investigation of Texture Development in Layer-grown Ti 6Al 4V
Brandon Saller, University of California, Irvine

Phase Transition Mechanism in Bulk Iron Oxide Nanocomposites
Sohanazaman Tanju, University of California, Riverside

Unshell the Potential Magic Bullet – Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in 3D
Peng Ge, University of California, Los Angeles

12:00 – 13:00      Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:20      SCSMM Business Meeting

13:20 – 13:50      Measuring Transport Into Artificial Cells With Confocal Microscopy
Noah Malmstadt, University of Southern California

13:50 – 15:00      Vendor Presentations:

EDS Analysis of Sub-Micron Structures Using Large Area Silicon Drift Detectors
Scott Sitzman, Oxford Instruments

Nanocone Chemical Analysis with Scanning Auger Microscopy
Ken Bomben, Physical Electronics

Advances in High Resolution Imaging with Helium Ion Microscopy
Arno Merkle, Carl Zeiss Co.

TEAM EDS Smart Features; Change the Way You Do Analysis Forever
Jack Rosek, EDAX

15:00 – 15:45      Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:30      Nicholas Ritchie (NIST, MAS Tour Speaker): “Standards-based Analysis – When and How?”

16:30 – 17:00      Tour of Caltech microscopy facility

17:00      Meeting adjourns

Poster Presentations

Title to be Announced
Mai Ng, University of California, Irvine

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Composite Cathode Performance and Morphology: Effects of Particle Size Distribution
Anh Duong, University of California, Irvine

Evaluating Thermally Grown Oxide in TBC Materials Under Humid Atmosphere
Matt Sullivan, University of California, Irvine

Directed Assembly of Nanoparticle Superstructures
Seth Taylor, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Title to be Announced
Matt Weeks, University of California, Irvine

The SCSMM acknowledges and thanks our vendors for their financial support of our All-day Symposium.

Registration and other details are posted
on the SCSMM website at:

www.scsmm.org.

SEMinars are back! Jan 27 – Pole figures

Informal discussion groups will be held on an irregular basis on Wednesdays at noon in Room 1322 in Calit2.  These are designed to be tutorial in nature.  Bring questions.  I will plan a brief opening talk with Powerpoint slides but quickly transition into an open discussion.

Jan 27 – Pole figures – what are they – with reference to the Mambo program for analyzing EBSD patterns.  Relevant to all EBSD users.

Feb 3 – Specimen preparation for SEM, EDS, and EBSD.  A discussion on specimen preparation for powders will be included if requested.

Feb 10 – Make suggestions… e-mail jrporter@uci.edu

XRD machine Problem 1/20/2010 fixed on 1/29/2010

Hi, XRD users,

 A X-ray diffractometer problem occurred this morning. After a brief check, I found that the problem might be associated with the X-ray generating system. I will talk with a service engineer to diagnose the reasons for the XRD problem  tomorrow. The XRD machine will be down till it is fixed. I will add comments to this news to keep you posted as the XRD status changes.

Jian-Guo Zheng

Microscopy and Microanalysis 2010

M&M 2010 will be held in Portland, OR from August 1-5.  Meeting info is on the MSA (microscopy.org) site that can be found from our LEXI links tab.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15, 2010.

This is the preeminent microscopy conference and it’s not that far to Portland.  And if you are presenting there, you might as well practice by presenting to your local society, SCSMM.  SCSMM deadline is Feb 5.  Meeting is March 11.  See earlier post on this blog.

TEM CCD camera Jan 8/removed Feb 1/Loaner camera installed OK

TEM users:
TEM CCD camera lost some functions, but it is still working well at binning 1. Please use binning 1 instead of binning 2, 3 and 4. The image size for binning 1 is very big (11Mb for each image) , so please record TEM images only when necessary.

We will repair the camera and have it fully functional soon. If you have any questions, you may contact Dr. Zheng.