Invitation to Launch Day of the EPSRC National Facility of Aberration Corrected STEM
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01/11/2011
To
mark the launch of the new National Facility for Aberration Corrected
STEM provided by SuperSTEM and funded by EPSRC, SuperSTEM will hold an
opening ceremony with inauguration lectures and a poster and discussion
session on Wednesday 11 January 2012. It will take place in the Atrium
at the STFC Daresbury laboratory. More details.
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SuperSTEM Staff Scientist Vacancy
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09/08/2011
One, possibly two,
fixed-term Staff Scientists position(s) have been created to provide
research leadership and user support at the SuperSTEM Laboratory, the
EPSRC UK National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning
Transmission Electron Microscopy. Though based at the SuperSTEM facility at the STFC Daresbury
Laboratory in Cheshire, one post will be associated with the Department of Materials, University of Manchester, and the other possible post with the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. The Universities
of Manchester and Oxford, along with the Universities of Glasgow,
Leeds and Liverpool, are the managing universities of SuperSTEM.
The last EPSRC review
panel (2005) rated the SuperSTEM facility ‘internationally outstanding’.
Highlights of research impact since this review include:
- A total of 101
journal publications with users (9 Nature group/PRL)
- 32 invited talks
and 23 conference contributions since 2007
- first demonstration
of atomically resolved EELS mapping
- significant
contribution to 2010 Nobel prize winning work on graphene
The Staff Scientist
position(s) (Manchester Ref EPS/12725; Oxford Ref 100697) are created
to undertake and lead aspects of research associated with
aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy
(STEM), to provide user support at a user facility, to contribute to
the development of techniques, to contribute to gaining research
funding, to be responsible for aspects equipment maintenance and
development, and to undertake administration and other teaching as
required. These posts are available immediately for a term of 12
months in the first instance. The SuperSTEM consortium is the
successful bidder to operate the UK National Aberration-Corrected
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Research Facility, and on
finalisation of the contracts these posts will be extended for at
least a further 24 months.
Applicants should have
a PhD in Physics, Materials, Engineering, Biology or a related field,
or equivalent experience, with at least two years’ post-doctoral
research experience in advanced electron microscopy. It is important
that candidates read the further particulars, including instructions
which should be followed closely when applying for this post.
It is important that
candidates submit applications to both Manchester and Oxford (these
can be identical applications) if they wish to be considered for both
posts.
For further details of the University of Manchester post see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research (and search for vacancy ID EPS/12725) ; for
the University of Oxford post please visit the website https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk (and search for vacancy ID 100697). The closing date for applications is midday on 23
September 2011 with interviews currently planned for the week
beginning 24 October 2011.
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Meet SuperSTEM at M&M 2011 in Nashville
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02/08/2011
- Optimized FIB Sample Preparation for Atomic Resolution Analytical STEM at Low kV - A Key Requirement for Successful Application
- Metal Graphene Interaction Studied via Atomic Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Applications of Atomic-Resolution EELS Mapping at Low kV
- Novel Multivariate Statistical Analysis Methods for STEM/EELS
- Designing Semiconductor Photocatalyst/ Metal Cocatalyst Composites for Water Splitting
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SuperSTEM to continue as AC-STEM facility
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28/06/2011
EPSRC has chosen SuperSTEM (in a growing collaboration of the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and led by the University of Leeds) as successful bidder for an EPSRC National Facility for Scanning Transmission Electron-Microscopy (EPSRC Reference: RE-10-0005-EPSRC-STEM), see Progress of mid-range facilities review. The tendering process is at the contract negotiation stage. The new contract will commence at the end of the existing 5 year EPSRC grant (September 2011) with no gap in service.
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A Bye to A.B.
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25/01/2011
Professor Andrew Bleloch has moved to Halcyon in California and we all wish him immense good fortune. Andrew was involved from the outset in the development of the "Synchrotron in a Microscope" concept by Mick Brown that eventually became the SuperSTEM project and Facility. He was Technical Director of the Facility from 2001 until he became Principal Investigator in 2008. Andrew's deep understanding of the physics of analytical STEM and of materials science, his enthusiasm, encouragement and general good humour were and are an inspiration to us. Andrew will continue to give advice when he can.
Professor Gordon Tatlock takes over as PI on the current EPSRC grant.
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| Congratulations to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov on their Nobel Prize in Physics |
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05/10/2010
SuperSTEM congratulate Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester on their Nobel Prize in Physics. We are proud to have played a role in characterising graphene sheets with them, and confidently expect a torrent of interest in developing further applications and modifications of graphene.
Some publications on graphene:
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| Krivanek elected to Royal Society |
25/05/2010
It is with great pleasure that we have learned of the election of Dr.
Ondrej Krivanek to the Royal Society of London. Dr. Krivanek is the
co-founder of NION, manufacturer of aberration-corrected scanning
transmission electron microscopes which currently hold the world records
for analytical performance. The citation put before the electors reads:
Ondrej Krivanek is at the forefront of pioneering advances that have
endowed electron microscopy with the ability to image and analyze matter
atom-by-atom. His early work improved an existing electron microscope
and used it to image directly, for the first time, the atomic structure
of defects in semiconductors. He next designed several instruments for
electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS). These are now used by hundreds
of researchers world-wide. He also co-authored an EELS atlas, which is a
standard reference source for spectra. Recently he designed and built a
practical aberration corrector, thereby reaching a goal that had
remained elusive for some fifty years. His novel microscopes are now
able to map chemical elements in solid samples with atomic resolution
and single atom sensitivity.
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| SuperSTEM welcomes new staff! |
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| Registration for ESTEEM workshop on Aberration Corrected STEM at SuperSTEM, 02-05 July 2010, is now open! |
01/03/2010
Please register as soon as possible as places are limited. ESTEEM places are filling up rapidly!
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| Good Bye! |
15/02/2010
SuperSTEM's Kasim Sader is now working at the Division of Physical Biochemistry at the National Institutes for Medical Research on determining the structure of the Influenza C virus by electron cryomicroscopy. Our Best Wishes!
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| Averaged EELS line scans retaining atomic resolution |
12/02/2010
Using a customized STEM EELS acquisition technique it is possible to reduce beam damage by spreading the dose along a rapidly scanned line during spectrum acquisition while keeping the atomic resolution of the UltraSTEM along a line profile. (read more)
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| In Memory of Albert Crewe |
10/02/2010
We sadly record the death of Albert Victor Crewe on 18 November 2009. Prof. Crewe was a graduate of Liverpool University who emigrated to Chicago and became Director of the Argonne National Laboratory in 1961. He recognised the revolutionary implications of replacing conventional thermal emission electron sources by field emission sources, and was the first to implement this far-reaching change. It enabled him to produce scanning transmission images of single atoms, and the first useful electron energy loss spectra. At the University of Chicago he led a remarkable team of young physicists who now carry forward the nanoscience his invention enabled. It was a great pleasure to all concerned when he opened the first SuperSTEM Laboratory in Daresbury in 2003. He was a remarkable innovator and a visionary, who ushered in atomic resolution microscopy.
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| Zinc-blende quantum well in a wurtzite segment |
20/01/2010
a) Aberration corrected HAADF High Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Micrograph (HRSTEM) of a zinc-blende quantum well in a wurtzite segment.
b) An atomistic model of a wurzite/zinc-blende/wurtzite heterostructures along with a schemitcs of the band diagram. The Ga and As atoms have been marked in orange and green, respectively, for the WZ domains, and in red and blue, respectively for the double unit zinc-blende quantum well
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Really Old News2009
Newsflash, 1 .11.SuperSTEM welcomes new staff Prof. Mervyn Shannon has now joined the SuperSTEM on-site team. Newsflash, 27.10.SuperSTEM open positionThe following post is currently announced within the SuperSTEM project: Job application deadline 20.11.2009.
Interviews will take place at the SuperSTEM Laboratory on 17 December 2009 Newsflash, 25.09.SuperSTEM image won Photographic CompetitionKasim Sader's competition entry has won the first prize in this year's
Human Health and Wellbeing in Engineering Photographic Competition. It will also be displaced at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds from September though October 2009. Image GalleryMagnesium oxide captured from the smoke
Newsflash, 01.06.SuperSTEM welcomes new staff Dr. Dorothea Muecke-Herzberg has now joined the SuperSTEM on-site team. Newsflash, 14.04.Survey of the UK Electron Microscopy community on Mid-Range FacilitiesThe EPSRC is conducting a survey of mid-range facilities in the UK. These are facilities such as SuperSTEM, MEIS and the Surrey Ion Beam Centre. An important part of this exercise is to consult the community to ascertain the need for such facilities. The funding of existing and priorities for future facilities will depend on the outcome of this exercise. - Thank you to all participants of the survey
Newsflash, 17.02.SuperSTEM job opportunitiesThe following posts are currently announced within the SuperSTEM project: Job application deadline 13.03.2009. Image GalleryPotM: Human hepatic ferritin mineral core, January
Newsflash, 08.11.SuperSTEM's Dr. Budhika Mendis has now moved to Durham University to begin his new lectureship. We congratulate.
Newsflash, 05.10.SuperSTEM presented 'Playing with Atoms' at the BA festival of science and Daresbury Mini Science Festival.
Image GalleryDaresbury Mini-Festival of Science , 05.October
Newsflash, 01.09.SuperSTEM's Dr. Peng Wang has now moved to University of Oxford to work on scanning confocal electron microscopy (SCEM) with Dr. Peter Nellist.
Newsflash, 12.08.Congratulations to Linshu Jiang for passing her PhD viva. Linshu's project was on discrete tomography of nanoparticles.
Newsflash, 22.01.SuperSTEM2, the first 5th order aberration corrected STEM in the world, was inaugurated on 22 . January 2008 by Prof. David Delpy FRS, head of EPSRC. The microscope is now being used for research by the UK and international scientific communities.
Image GallerySuperSTEM 2 Launch , 22. January 2008
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