title: The Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory (SNL) and Recent Applications of an Aberration-Corrected Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope.
abstract: This article describes the establishment, over a period of ten years or so, of a multi-user, institution-wide facility for the characterization of materials and devices at the nano-scale. Emphasis is placed on the type of equipment that we have found to be most useful for our users, and the business strategy that maintains its operations. A central component of our facility is an aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscope and its application is summarized in the studies of plasmon energies of silver nanoparticles, the band gap of PbS quantum dots, atomic site occupancy near grain boundaries in yttria stabilized zirconia, the lithiation of silicon nanoparticles, in situ observations on carbon nanotube oxidation and the electron tomography of varicella zoster virus nucleocapsids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering Durand Building Rm 113 496 Lomita Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4034, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sinclair
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering Durand Building 131 496 Lomita Mall Stanford University Stanford, Ca 94305-4034, USA.
authors.forename: Paul Joseph
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Kempen
authors.affiliation: Stanford Nano Shared Facilities McCullough Rm 225 476 Lomita Mall Stanford, CA 94305-4045, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.affiliation: Stanford Nano Shared Facilities McCullough Rm. 236 476 Lomita Mall Stanford CA, 94305-4045, USA.
authors.forename: Ai Leen
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Koh