September 2025
- MC2025 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. Invited talk by Frances: Targeted disruption of the pristine flatlands of 2D hBN.
- EU-FIB workshop in Valencia, Spain. Invited talk by Frances: Advancing FIB beyond the cut with helium ion microscopy.
August 2025
- Dana’s paper Neutral but Impactful: Gallium Cluster-Induced Nanopores from Beam-Blanked Gallium Ion Sources, in collaboration with Karen Bustillo, Stephanie Ribet, and Colin Ophus, is published in Microscopy and Microanalysis. Check it out to learn what neutral clusters can do to your samples.
July 2025
- M&M Meeting in Salt Lake City with invited talk by Frances presenting our work Exploring Chemistry and Confinement in Engineered 2D hBN in collaboration with Luiz Tizei, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Demie Kepaptsoglou, and Quentin Ramasse.
February 2025
- Dana’s paper Atomic Engineering of Triangular Nanopores in Monolayer hBN for Membrane Applications: A Decoupled Seeding and Growth Approach is published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
January 2025
- Dana and Frances visit Quentin Ramasse and Demie Kepaptsoglou at the SuperSTEM lab in the UK for STEM-EELS investigations of defects in 2D hBN using Nion UltraSTEM 100 MC HERMES instrument. So much data!
- Sherry’s paper Focused helium ion beam nanofabrication by near-surface swelling is published in JVSTB, receiving Editor’s Pick and cover page honors.
December 2024
- Frances gives invited talk in the EIPBN WIN seminar series: “Exploring atomic effects across scales”.
October 2024
- Frances visits Advanced Instrumentation for Nano-Analytics (AINA) group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, and RAITH HQ in Dortmund, Germany, to demo new FIB-SIMS instrument.
July 2024
- Dana’s paper on Probing Defectivity Beneath the Hydrocarbon Blanket in 2D hBN Using TEM-EELS in collaboration with Jim Ciston is published in Microscopy and Microanalysis.
May 2024
- Sherry wins Best Poster Award and Best Ion Micrograph Award at EIPBN Meeting in La Jolla.
- Frances gives invited talk at EIPBN Meeting in La Jolla: “Harnessing charged particle beams to tailor defects by design”.
- Katja Höflich, our collaborator from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Berlin, visits and gives a special seminar: “Direct is beautiful: exploiting the full potential of focused electron and ion beams for nanofabrication”.
April 2024
- Dana gives her talk “Advanced chemical characterization of sub-nm pores in 2D hBN” at the Spring MRS meeting in Seattle and we visit the STEM-EELS lab of collaborator Juan Carlos Idrobo at the University of Washington.
January 2024
- Dana wins Nature Water poster prize at the Nanofluidics 2024 conference in Lenzerheide, Switzerland!
- Our paper on the Fabrication of Organometallic Tips for Dynamic AFM of Biomolecules in Liquid is published by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Collaboration with Bibiana Onoa (Innovative Genomics Institute, UCB) and José María de Teresa (U. Zaragoza, Spain).
≤ December 2023
- Lots happened, just no webpage!