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Welcome to the University of Nebraska NCMN Central Facility for Scanning Probe Microscopy

News and Announcements:

April 14, 2008   Reminder:  Please handle the new cantilever holder with care! Please put on and/or take off it from the SPM scanner head very carefully and gently. Thanks for your attention!
September 13, 2007 Cover Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 111, Issue 39, 13348-13353.

"Collective Buckling of Periodic Soft Nanostructures on Surfaces and Promotion for Nanolithography",  Congratulations to Haojing Lin, Jiashi Yang, Li Tan, et al.

Nov 20, 2006   SPM Lab has moved to Ferguson Hall, room 16. You are welcome to the new Lab for materials imaging and characterization.
Nov 16, 2006   SPM central facility shut down for moving.
Nov 6, 2006   SPM facility will be moved to  the Nanofab Facility (Ferguson Hall, room 16). We will arrange to shut down the SPM central facility several days for moving, setup and installation, testing, and calibration.
Nov 29, 2005   SPM facility gets back to the normal operating conditions.
Nov 22, 2005   A Power Lever electronic door lock has been installed on SPM facility lab. For all authorized SPM users, the Power Lever Door Lock is accessed via a combination entered at the keypad. The combination length is six digits (two-digit user ID + four-digit PIN). The combination will always be unique to a given user who will receive a valid combination via email.
Nov 9, 2005   SPM is out of order temporarily. SPM head scanner will be repaired.
Oct 21, 2004   Problem on SPM has been fixed. SPM is available for users now. All SPM users should be very careful in using SPM facility. Please see instructions for how to use SPM correctly. Please read the notice on the wall of the SPM Lab to know how to protect the SPM scanner. Thanks for your attention.
Oct 18, 2004   SPM is shutdown. The power supply and X-Y board on the Nanoscope controller IIIa have been replaced. The Z-board for the controller will be changed.
Sep 16, 2004   The trouble-shooting of the zoom motor on the SPM has been finished. This should be resolve the problem of zooming in and out of video images that we have been experiencing lately.
Mar 31, 2004   SPM facility website with a direct link to an instrument sign-up calendar is online  (http://ncmn-webcal.unl.edu/spm/calendar.htm). Trained and registered users have been given accounts to make a reservation for using SPM. Please remember to sign-up for the SPM schedule before you use it!

SPM facility is available for use by all qualified faculty, students and researchers at UNL, as well as by researchers from other universities and industries. Scheduling is handled on first-come first-serve basis by sign-up the instrument reservation calendar online. A facility specialist is available to assist researchers using the instrument .


 

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Contact Lanping Yue with questions or comments - Last updated 05/28/2008