Bev Clampit is our new Office Assistant. Bev will be here in the mornings from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM from Monday to Thursday. She is in the other office space in Room 413. She is responsible for billing, ordering supplies and entering users into the EMAL User Database. So, when you have a completed EMAL Authorization Form, you should bring it to Bev, she will check it for completeness and then enter your data into the EMAL User Database. She will also take your photograph, so that EMAL staff can more effectively keep track of our over 300 users.

Stop by, and say hi to Bev!

Another New EMAL Staff Person!

Haiping Sun is our new Research Associate, he has recently finished a Ph.D. in Professor Pan's Group. Haiping has extensive knowledge of the TEM, STEM, SEM and FIB, you can ask him for help with each of those techniques. He will be training users, helping analyze results, helping optimize experiments and doing collaborative research. His office will be 418 EMAL. His email is haipings@umich.edu. Note that this office will also soon be Ying Qi's office when she is in EMAL and our AFM helper Haifeng Chen will also be moving there. It will then cease to be a general use office.

Please welcome Haiping to EMAL!

1. An EDAX XEDS system is on order for the JEOL 3011, this will allow users to perform chemical analysis in that instrument. The system will be very similar to that on the 2010F, the XL30FEG and the Nova NanoLab (expected by the end of April).
2. A new Firewire-based CCD camera will replace the OIM camera on the XL30FEG, it will have improved image quality and will allow over ten times faster EBSD data acquisition (expected in late March).
3. A solid-state backscatter detector for the Quanta is on order, the old E3 detector could not be modified succesfully to mount in th is system. The new detector will work in SEM, FIB and ESEM modes.