Co-organizers:
NIST Surface and Microanalysis Science Division (837)
NIST Precision Engineering Division (821)
Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS) <http://www.microbeamanalysis.org/>
Australian Microbeam Analysis Society (AMAS) <http://www.microscopy.org.au/>
NIST has a long history of hosting workshops on topics of interest to the microbeam
characterization community:
1967 and 1991: Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis;
1974: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry;
1975: Use of Monte Carlo Calculations in EPMA and SEM;
1978: Characterization of Particles;
1979: Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry.
Beginning in 2002, NIST has co-hosted with the Microbeam Analysis Society a
series of annual workshops continuing this earlier tradition:
2002 Pushing Through the Accuracy Barrier of Quantitative Electron Beam X-ray
Microanalysis
2003 Multivariate Data Analysis for Microscopy and Microanalysis
2004 Modeling Electron Transport for Applications in Electron and X-ray Analysis
and Metrology
From November 2 to 4, 2005, NIST will co-host a workshop on Variable Pressure
Scanning Electron Microscopy (VPSEM) and Environmental SEM (ESEM) in conjunction
with the Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS) and the Australian Microbeam Analysis
Society (AMAS). Building on the highly successful AMAS Roadmap 1 and 2 workshops
on VPSEM-ESEM organized by Brendan Griffin, this VPSEM-ESEM workshop, which
constitutes Roadmap 3, will provide an opportunity for technical presentations
(platform and poster), demonstrations, and discussions on leading topics in
microscopy and microanalysis in VPSEM-ESEM. Special attention will be given
to new breakthrough areas, such as combined VPSEM-ESEM-FIB (focused ion beam)
instrumentation. Discussions will attempt to identify those critical issues
where research is needed for further progress in VPSEM-ESEM.
The program as it has been currently developed is attached below. We are seeking
interested participants, proposed titles for presentations, as well as suggestions
for additional topics and invited keynote speakers to include. In keeping with
past NIST-MAS workshops, there will be no cost for attendance, but pre-registration
is required so that the available lecture room space is not overwhelmed and
NIST security requirements can be satisfied.
NIST-MAS-AMAS VPSEM-ESEM Workshop
Tentative Program (as of Sept. 21, 2005)
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2005
AM: Electron and ion interactions in the gas environment (including detectors)
Organizer/Invited speaker: Brad Thiel (SUNY-Albany)
Topics: fundamentals, charge control, radiation damage, electron detectors
Additional speakers:
Matthew Phillips
Milos Toth
Ralph Knowles.
Special feature: World Heavy-Weight Throw-Down Steel Cage Match on pressure correction algorithms. (French-Canada vs the World; three falls or submissions determine the winner!)
PM: Contrast mechanisms in VPSEM-ESEM
Organizer/invited speakers: David Joy (Univ. Tennessee) and Brendan Griffin
(U. Western Australia)
CONTRAST EFFECTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MICROSCOPY
Brief Introduction - what do we mean by contrast? David Joy
Contrast in Charge Collection Microscopy, how, why, what? Brendan Griffin
CCI Contrast from soft tissue sample Peda Clode (UWA)
Microscopy and Microanalysis in liquids Jim FitzGerald (UVa) w/ David Joy
Atomic level imaging in liquids Niels de Jonge (ORNL)
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005
AM: VPSEM-ESEM breakthrough areas:
1. VP Metrology
Session Chairs: Michael T. Postek and Andras E. Vladar
Special Considerations for CD-Metrology in Low Vacuum - .Brad Thiel
The effects of operating parameters on Environmental SEM Metrology - David Joy
Optimizing signal to noise ratio in gas cascade amplification - Vasiliki Tileli
(student presentation)
ESEM-based Reference Metrology System - Andras E. Vladar and Michael T. Postek,
NIST
ESEM charge control and contamination reduction for high resolution critical
dimension microscopy - Milos Toth,
Discussion
2. VPSEM-ESEM FIB
Organizer/Invited Speaker: Lucille Giannuzzi
Additional speakers
John Mansfield
PM: X-ray microanalysis in the VPSEM-ESEM
Organizer: Dale Newbury (NIST)
Invited speaker: Eric Doehne (Getty Conservation Laboratory)
Invited speaker: Dr. Ning Gao (X-ray Optical Systems)
Invited speaker: Robert A. Carlton (GlaxoSmithKline)
Additional speakers:
Dale Newbury and Nicholas Ritchie
PM: Friday, Nov. 4, 2005
AM: Dynamic experiments in VPSEM-ESEM
Organizer/invited speaker: Scott Wight (NIST)
Invited speaker: Dr Ken Severin (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Invited speaker: Dr Charlotte C. Appel (Haldor Topsøe A/S, Denmark)
PM: Roadmap 3: Critical issues in VPSEM-ESEM: Where do we go next?
Organizer: Brendan Griffin (U. Western Australia)
Format:
1. Make a contentious statement about some aspect of VPSEM-ESEM
2. Support your position for 4 minutes (maximum!)
3. Rebuttal speaker for 4 minutes (maximum!) (prearranged, if possible!)
4. Open discussion for 15 minutes (maximum!)
5. Next topic
A hotel room block has been reserved at the Gaithersburg Hilton, their phone # is 301-977-8900. The block is under the "Microscopy Workshop" and the rate is $109/night. The block will be held until two weeks prior to the meeting. As of 10/24/05 the room block is full. We recommend that you contact the Courtyard below and ask for the NIST visitors rate.
NIST will provide a bus from the Hilton to NIST at 08:00 and from NIST back to the Hilton at 17:45.
Please fill out the online free Registration form. Registration deadline October 21, 2005!
All attendees are encouraged to present a poster discussing an
interesting facet of their work. These posters will be on display for the full duration of the
workshop. In addition, there will be
a poster session on Tuesday. The poster
session is designed to present a realistic snapshot of what participants in
this field are doing and their concerns & challenges. Please plan to present a poster. Submit a title, author list and a short abstract
as a single MS Word or OpenOffice.org Writer document by e-mail to Dale Newbury
at dale.newbury@nist.gov on or before
October 31, 2005. These abstracts will
be made available to all attendees.
Meals
Because registration for the workshop is free, attendees are responsible
for their own meals throughout the week. Coffee &, tea will be served before sessions and during some
breaks. NIST operates a full-service cafeteria down the hall from the meeting
location, as well as a snack bar and newsstand. There are numerous off-site restaurants
near NIST available to workshop attendees as well.
Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Beverages/Snacks: 9:30
a.m. to 11 a.m.
Lunch:
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Beverages/Snacks: 1:30
p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Location and Driving Directions
The workshop will be held in the Lecture Room A in the Administration
Building on the campus of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. All meeting attendees
are responsible for providing their travel to and from NIST, and for obtaining
lodging in Gaithersburg for the duration of the meeting. To make this as convenient
as possible, we provide here maps, directions, schedules, and pointers to a
variety of information that might be useful to travelers attending the workshop.
NIST is located just off Interstate Route 270, about 25 miles (40
kilometers) from the center of Washington, D.C. If you wish to use an Internet map service to locate the NIST campus,
you might need the street address of NIST:
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
From northbound I-270 take Exit 10, Route 117 West, Clopper Road.
At the first light on Clopper Road, turn left onto the NIST grounds.
From southbound I-270 take Exit 11, MD Route 124, Montgomery Village
Avenue/Quince Orchard Road. Bear right at the traffic light at the end of the
off-ramp onto MD Route 124 West, Quince Orchard Road. At the second light on
Quince Orchard Road, turn left onto MD Route 117, West Diamond Avenue. Turn
right at the first light onto NIST grounds.
When leaving the airport, follow the Dulles Access Road to the
Bethesda/Baltimore entrance ramp to I-495 . Take I-495 (left lane exit) to I-270
North (towards Maryland). Take I-270
North (local lanes) toward Montrose Road. Take Exit #10 off I-270 toward Clopper
Road (MD 117) and Quince Orchard Rd (MD 124). Note that these exits are right
exits, and exit from the collector/distributor lanes off the Interstate.
Be aware of the signs directing you to enter the collector/distributor lanes
several hundred yards prior to the exit itself.
Merge onto Clopper Road at the end of the off-ramp and pass under I-270.
At first stop light, (Bureau Dr.) turn left into the main NIST entrance.
When leaving the airport, take I-195 West. On I-195W take the I-95
South Exit #4B toward Washington DC. Take the I-495 West Exit #27-25 toward
College Park/Silver Spring, MD. Take the I-270 North Exit #35 toward Frederick,
MD. Take I-270 North (local lanes)
toward Montrose Road. Take Exit #10 off I-270 toward Clopper Road (MD 117) and
Quince Orchard Rd (MD 124). Note that these exits are right exits, and
exit from the collector/distributor lanes off the Interstate. Be aware of the
signs directing you to enter the collector/distributor lanes several hundred
yards prior to the exit itself. Merge
onto Clopper Road at the end of the off-ramp and pass under I-270. At first stop light, (Bureau Dr.) turn left
into the main NIST entrance.
Exit National Airport by heading north on the George Washington
(GW) Parkway toward Maryland. Take the GW Parkway to I-495 North toward Maryland.
At the lane divide, keep left and exit I-495 to take I-270 North toward Rockville,
Gaithersburg, and Frederick. Take I-270 North (local lanes) toward Montrose
Road. Take Exit #10 off I-270 toward Clopper Road (MD 117) and Quince Orchard
Rd (MD 124). Note that these exits are right exits, and exit from the
collector/distributor lanes off the Interstate. Be aware of the signs directing
you to enter the collector/distributor lanes several hundred yards prior to
the exit itself. Merge onto Clopper
Road at the end of the off-ramp and pass under I-270. At first stop light, (Bureau Dr.) turn left
into the main NIST entrance.
Metro Access to NIST (Subway)
NIST is accessible via the Washington Metro system. NIST is closest
to the last stop on the Red Line (Shady Grove station), but it is a ten-minute
drive from the Shady Grove station to the NIST campus. NIST provides shuttle service for official
visitors and staff to and from the Shady Grove Metro Station. Visitors using
Metro can meet the NIST shuttle at the east side "Kiss & Ride"
area of the Shady Grove Metro Station at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour from
8:00 am to 5:30 pm. The shuttle departs from the front of the NIST Administration
Building on the hour and half hour, and stops at NIST North four minutes later
on the way to the Metro station.
Lodging
We have reserved a block rooms for the workshop at the Gaithersburg
Hilton on Perry Parkway, not far from NIST. The Hilton can be reached at:
620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, Md.. 20877
(301) 977-8900 Fax: (301) 869-8597
The rooms in the workshop block are $109/night + 12% tax. (The 2005 GSA Per Diem maximum for Gaithersburg
is $153/night for lodging and $51/day for meals and incidental expenses.)
The are several other hotels and motels near NIST, including:
Courtyard
Gaithersburg Lakeforest
805 Russell Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Phone: 1 301-670-0008
Fax: 1 301-948-4538
Toll Free: 1 800-336-6880
2 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, Md.. 20879
(301) 948-8900 Fax: (301)
258-1940
Motel 6
I-270 South exit #11, North exit #10
497 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, Md. 20878
(301) 977-3311 Fax: (301) 990-1053
A much larger list (about
25 hotels) is available on the NIST website.
It is possible to walk from either the Gaithersburg Hilton or Motel
6 through the NIST front gates and to the Administration building in about 20
minutes. For other local hotels, a car
or taxi is a probably necessary.
Further Travel Information
For further information on transportation, food/dining, hotels/motels
and more follow one of these links:
Washington Metro System (stations, system
map, fare information, etc)
Workshop Organizers
Please contact one of the workshop organizers if you have questions
or suggestions. We hope to see you in Gaithersburg!
Dale
Newbury Scott Wight
NIST
NIST
(301) 975-3921 (301) 975-3949
dale.newbury@nist.gov scott.wight@nist.gov
Contact: Dale Newbury (dale.newbury@nist.gov)
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