The staff of the Clemson's Electronic Imaging and Analytical Services Laboratory held an open house recently to celebrate equipment upgrades which take them to the pinnacle of analytical facilities in the Southeast. The lab now boasts an Hitachi FB-2000A Focused Ion Beam unit, which will be used primarily for sample preparation. The samples will be used on the new Hitachi HD-2000 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, which has a magnification of 5,000,000X.

"We're very fortunate to be able to bring this capability to the university," observed Bill Kay, EIAS director. "No university in the southeast has the tandem capabilities inherent in the HD-2000 and FB-2000A." These upgrades reflect an investment exceeding $2.3 million.

The EIAS Open House included a series of seminars presented by Dr. David Joy, who is currently a distinguished professor and director of the electron microscopy facility at the University of Tennessee, and leader of the imaging and manipulation facility of the Center for Nanomaterials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the author of over 350 papers and eight books concerning electron microscopy and microanalysis.