http://depts.washington.edu/nanolab/NUE_UNIQUE/NUE_UNIQUE_Workshop.htm
Open to CSE majors
Objective and Background
The objective of this intensive SPM workshop is to provide a truly hands-on experience (3-4 students per instruments) in a classroom laboratory setting involving a variety of SPM techniques applied to nanoscience and nanotechnology aspects related to chemistry, physics and biology.
Since the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel Prize in Physics 1986) scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques have dazzled scientist and engineers in nearly every field from natural sciences to liberal arts, and nucleated the new discipline of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The birth of such a highly interdisciplinary field is an attest to the changing times in a world that moves from educating specialists to generalists. The true power of SPM techniques, which assisted in removing boundaries between disciplines, lays in its simplicity to provide access to nanoworld in terms of visualization and manipulation. Hence, it is only perceivable that SPM offers outstanding educational tools for schools.