AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition
    Manufacturing Science and Technology Tuesday Sessions
       Session MS-TuA

Paper MS-TuA10
From Neutron Nanoscience to Direct-write Nanofabrication at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:20 pm, Room 114

Session: Working with National Labs and User Facilities
Presenter: Olga Ovchinnikova, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multidisciplinary user facility that provides the research community with access to expertise and equipment to address the most challenging issues in nanoscience. Industrial, government and academic researchers from around the world may access capabilities in functional imaging, atom-precise synthesis, and nanofabrication. The CNMS is a leader in a range of advanced nanofabrication techniques including electron beam assisted deposition on the sub-10 nm level using both gas and liquid precursors as feedstock material, 3D fabrication and atomically precise material sculpting, as well as direct matter manipulation on the atomic level by electron beams to induce material functionality. Spatially resolved quantitative measurements of physical and chemical properties of materials are available to users through unique measurement capabilities of band excitation scanning probe microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, helium ion microscopy, and atom probe tomography. Furthermore, theoretical and computational approaches are available to CNMS users, as frameworks for deep-data analytics methods for imaging, and computational prediction of functional and physical properties in nanostructures, benefiting from the broad ORNL computational capabilities. Located adjacent to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL, CNMS acts as a gateway for the nanoscience community to ORNL’s world-class neutron science facilities, by providing diverse complementary capabilities such as selective deuteration, sample environments for multi-modal measurements, fabrication of templates for neutron reflectivity experiments, and many other materials science capabilities to complement neutron results. As one of the five Department of Energy Nanoscale Science Research Centers (see nsrcportal.sandia.gov), CNMS makes all of these capabilities, and the staff expertise to fully benefit from them, available free of charge to users who intend to publish the results, or at-cost for proprietary research, as described at cnms.ornl.gov. [The CNMS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.]