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X-Ray Workshop with Rigaku on Jan 14th and 15th, 2025

The Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) is pleased to announce that in January, in collaboration with Rigaku, we will be hosting a workshop on X-ray Workshop on January 14th and 15th. The event will feature seminars from researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of South Carolina and Rigaku Americas each morning. Afternoons will feature hands-on training and application of techniques and showing off the capabilities of the tools and the software. Techniques covered will include X-Ray Diffraction. X-Ray Fluorescence, and Computed Tomography (CT).

Link to registration is here:

https://rigaku.com/resources/events/georgia-tech-2025

Directions and Parking at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building

The Marcus Nanotechnology Building is located at 345 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30318.  Please park in the visitor parking area 5 on State Street (it is a parking deck).  State Street is the fourth traffic light after you have crossed over 85/75 on 10th Street.  You would turn LEFT onto State Street and the parking deck is on your left (Area 5).  Once you park, walk out of the parking deck from the lower level on the east side.  Turn right and walk up the cobblestone street (you will be going south).  When you reach the top of the hill, do not cross the street.  The Marcus Nanotechnology Building will be on your right.

There is also a small lot (Area 4) directly across Ferst Dr.  Both of these locations are paid visitor lots.

Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Seminar – July 24, 2024.

Hello MCF in collaboration with Thermo will be hosting a workshop on ICP this coming July 24 in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building in the seminar room 1116-1118. This will be a detailed workshop on best practices, recommendations, tips and tricks, and you will be able to ask questions directly to application engineers.

Please register here and lunch will be provided

https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8G5ZQTGuq6sZ674

Next MCF Image Contest in live until June 30, 2024!

1st place - The Beauty of Cancer Cells
1st place from the last image contest: Aref Valipour, F. Sarioglu Group Hitachi SU 8230 SEM

The Materials Characterization Facility hosts a running image contest that resets bimonthly. The current image contests will run through June 30, 2024.  In addition to displaying some of the imaging and analysis capabilities of our labs, it gives our users a chance to display their creative side. Check back here the first week of each month for updates on submission and in June we will announce our annual winners.

To submit your images, please go here!

https://gatech.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1934698

More information on the contest, rules, and how to make submissions can be found here

https://mcf.gatech.edu/news/

Example of Previous Submissions and Winners

https://mcf.gatech.edu/monthly-image-contest-results/

XPS Workshop – May 8th and 9th 2024!

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide users continued support for their research, the MCF is partnering with Thermo Scientific to host a 2-day workshop on electron-based surface science methods (XPS, UPS, REELS, etc.).

The Workshop will be Wed. & Thurs. May 8th & 9th and will include lunch.  We will have internal and external speakers as well as a hands-on guided session for XPS data analysis using Thermo’s Avantage software.

Please take a look at the attached flyer and sign up as soon as possible to ensure your spot.  Feel free to contact MCF Staff with any questions. To register you can go here or https://rb.gy/cf8yx7

New Image Contest Is Live!

The Materials Characterization Facility hosts a running image contest that resets bimonthly. The current image contests will run through March 31, 2024.  In addition to displaying some of the imaging and analysis capabilities of our labs, it gives our users a chance to display their creative side. Check back here the first week of each month for updates on submission and in June we will announce our annual winners.

Ag (111) surface

To submit your images, please go here!

https://gatech.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1925070

More information on the contest, rules, and how to make submissions can be found below

https://mcf.gatech.edu/news/

Image Contest Rules:

Example of Previous Submissions and Winners.

MCF Image Contest

ZrTe5 w/ missing Te dimer at center

The MCF hosts a running image contest that resets bimonthly. The current image contests will run through November 30, 2023.  In addition to displaying some of the imaging and analysis capabilities of our labs, it gives our users a chance to display their creative side. Check back here the first week of each month for updates onsubmission and twice a year – around mid-January and mid-June – to see the semiannual grand prize winners.

To submit an image, you can do so here.

https://gatech.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1917243

If you are an MCF user, then check out the contest rules here and please consider submitting.

X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Symposium on January 5th and 6th, 2023

The Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) is pleased to announce that in January, in collaboration with Rigaku, we will be hosting a workshop on X-ray Diffraction. January 5th will feature seminars from researchers and faculty at Georgia Tech and across the southeast including but not limited to Clemson, Emory, Florida State University, and JSNN. January 6th will feature hands on training and application of techniques and showing off the capabilities of the tools and the software.

Registration information will be posted on the MCF (mcf.gatech.edu) website as well on the Rigaku website.

https://events.rigaku.com/symposium-gt-2023/registration

We look forward to seeing you at our workshop in the New Year!

Bruker XRF Webinar December 6th

Bruker Tornado doors open

Bruker will be hosting a webinar on quantitative XRF this coming Tuesday. The MCF will be playing the webinar in the lobby of Characterization Facility in Marcus.

In this webinar, Bruker will present potentials for quantification from simple to complex specimens, from infinitely thick to thin, from ideal to non-ideal samples. The possibilities to optimize the analytical output will be elaborated on using example cases. A discussion on detection limits and develop potential improvements and parameter optimization will also be had.

If you would like to register to watch it at your own concenience, you can sign up for it here.