We are in the midst of an explosion in new technologies for microscopy, spectroscopy, data analysis, sample manipulation, and more. The materials community is central to much of this activity and both drives and embraces these developments. The need for new instrumentation is especially poignant now with the increasing need to understand materials on the atomic scale and with greater precision in physical properties measurements. This symposium will concentrate on the innovations and the people who develop the innovations. Analytical characterization of materials, including at least imaging, elemental composition, chemical properties, and mechanical testing on a microscopic scale will be considered.
To our knowledge, there has never been a symposium which specifically seeks to bring together the developers of the instrumentation for the purpose of reviewing the latest innovations in the technology. We expect both the developers and users of instrumentation to be interested in this symposium. Academic, industrial, and commercial groups developing either systems or components which advance the state of instruments used for materials research are invited to participate. We expect a cross-fertilization among several communities.
Examples of topics of interest include:
*System components
* Radiation sources
* Optics
* Motion technology, stagework
* Sensors and detectors
* Attenuation of environmental detriments
* Integrated systems
* Microscopy and spectroscopy
* Microscopic mechanical test systems
* Enabling instrumentation and manufacturing
* Microfabrication
* Computer hardware and software
It is expected that some exceptional contributed papers will be upgraded to longer, invited presentations.
Partial list of invited speakers: Ruud Tromp (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Pupa De Stasio (Swiss Institute of Technology)
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Symposium Organizers
Thomas F. Kelly
Department of Materials Science
and Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1500 Johnson Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1687
Phone (608) 263-1073
Fax (608) 263-3704/1087
tfk@coefac.engr.wisc.edu
Paul Fischione
E.A. Fischione Instruments, Inc.
9003 Corporate Circle
Export, PA 15632
Phone (412) 325-5444
Fax (412) 325-5443
Lorretta Inglehart
Division of Materials Research
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard, 1065-S
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone (703) 306-1817
Fax (703) 306-0515
lingleha@nsf.gov
David B. Williams
Department of Materials Science
and Engineering
Whitaker Lab #5
Lehigh University
5 E. Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3195
Phone (610) 758-4224
Fax (610) 758-4244
dbw1@lehigh.edu
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