News/Events

2024

• June 18 – Electron Beam Nanolithography Workshop
• October 1 - X-ray Diffraction: Putting the “structure” in structure-property-function relationships
• October 10 - Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Workshop

2023

• December 8 – X-Ray Diffractometer Hands-on Training Workshop

2022

• February 1 – Nanoscale Material Characterization Techniques: Scanning Electron Microscopy vs Atomic Force Microscopy with an Introduction to the DriveAFM
• August 9 – Material 3D-Nanofabrication and Characterization Hands-on Workshop

2021

• November 18 – COSINC and MIMIC Virtual Open House: Hands-on demonstrations on X-ray and Electron Microscopy
• January 29 – Facility Virtual Open-House (click on link to access videos)
  • Introduction of the new COSINC Characterization facility
  • Basic principles of Qualitative and Quantitative Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS) Analysis, Richard McLaughlin Ph.D. (Oxford Instruments)
  • Light at the tip of a needle: optical nano-focus engineering for ultrafast imaging of quantum materials: Professor Markus Raschke and Wenjin Luo (CU Physics/JILA)
  • Live demonstration on the Focus Ion Beam (FIB)-SEM instrument
  • Live demonstration on the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)/EDS instrument

2020

• January 8 – "SEM2 and EDS" with SEM2 office hours
• April 22 – “Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (Oxford Aztec-EDS),” Oxford Instruments, Presenter: Warren J. MorberlyChan, Ph.D., Microscopist
• April 30 – Cryo Dual Beams, Where Are We in 2020,” Thermo Fisher Scientific, Presenter: Rick Passey, Product and Application Scientist
• May 4 – "Basics of Plasma, Reactors and Etching," Plasma Therm, Presenter: David Lishan, Ph.D., Principal Scientist
• May 14 – “Learn how to write Nanometer,” Raith Nanofabrication (Electron Beam Lithography), Presenters: Andre Linden, Application Engineer; Marc Wijnands, Software and Application Engineer