SuperSTEM presented 'Playing with Atoms' at the BA festival of science and Daresbury mini science festival. Click here for a few photos.

Congratulations to Linshu Jiang for passing her PhD viva. Linshu's project was on discrete tomography of nanoparticles.

SuperSTEM's Dr. Peng Wang has now moved to University of Oxford to work on scanning confocal electron microscopy (SCEM) with Dr. Peter Nellist.

SuperSTEM2, the first 5th order aberration corrected STEM in the world, was inaugurated on 22nd 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. Click here for more details.

A handbook on aberration corrected STEM is being prepared by the SuperSTEM academic staff. Watch this space for further updates.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1) Free- standing graphene at atomic resolution, M. H. Gass et al., Nature Nanotech. (2008) doi: 10.1038/nnano.2008.280.

2) High-resolution detection of Au catalyst atoms in Si nanowires, J E Allen et al, Nature Nanotech. 3 (2008) 168.

3) Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters, Z. Y. Li et al, Nature 451 (2007) 46.

4) Two-Dimensional Mapping of Chemical Information at Atomic Resolution, M. Bosman et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 086102.

5) Direct Imaging of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Cells, A. E. Porter, M. H. Gass, K. Muller et al, Nature Nanotech. 2 (2007) 713.

Click here for a full list of publications.

ABOUT US

SuperSTEM is an EPSRC funded facility specialising in aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). We have experience in serving the UK and international scientific communities as well as industrial organisations. The unique facilities at SuperSTEM enable unprecedented acces to the detailed structure and chemistry of individual atoms in the material of interest. The technique has been applied to (amongst others) interfaces in semiconductor materials, single atom detection of platinum group metals used as catalysts as well as understanding the interaction between biological cells and single-walled carbon nanotubes as part of nano-toxicology studies.

We are the only dedicated, aberration-corrected STEM microscopy facility in Europe and have the first 5th order-corrected STEM microscope in the world produced by Nion Co. Click here for more information on the SuperSTEM project.

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