Sarah Ross

The Osirirs STEM has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 011. This is a fully digital 200 kV S/TEM system, designed to deliver revolutionary analytical performance in all imaging and analytical modes. Click… Read More

Students from Portland High School and Kenwood High School visited the VINSE labs on March 8. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering recently hosted its 100th group of Middle Tennessee high school students for a daylong field trip to the… Read More

The Helios FIB-SEM has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 019.  The Helios FIB-SEM provides the capability to fabricate TEM thin sections, modify surfaces using electron and ion beam induced deposition, and is… Read More

The Merlin SEM is moving to the new VINSE Imaging Suite in the Engineering and Science Building, room 015. Move schedule. April 19 – EDX system will be removed from SEM and packed for relocation April 23 – Last day of service as an imaging tool April 24 – physical move… Read More

‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers Research team ‘squashes’ the shape of nanoparticles, enabling inexpensive lasers that continuously emit light in a customized rainbow of colors March 20, 2017. By carefully controlling the size of the quantum dots, researchers can ‘tune’ the frequency, or color, of… Read More

The Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 023. The AFM is a state-of-the-art scanning probe instrument that can be used to map a wide variety of… Read More

Congratulations to Craig Duvall – Craig has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), announced in a recent White House press release. <– White House Press Release –>… Read More

Philippe Fauchet, dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year. Fauchet is recognized for “extraordinary scientific and engineering research accomplishment in photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, and for distinguished academic leadership.”… Read More

Mood ring materials – a new way to detect damage in failing infrastructure “Mood ring materials” could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation’s failing infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that more than $3.6 trillion in investment… Read More

How Scientists Turned Junkyard Scrap Metal Into A Battery Inspired by an archaeological find, researchers have built a pill-bottle-sized battery starting from junkyard scrap metal. The scientists say their approach could someday be used to repurpose metal alloys commonly found around the house for energy storage applications. As renewable energy… Read More