NewsWe study the measurement of the physical and chemical properties of surfaces down to the nanoscale, from biological samples to electronic components.
- NPL's Felicia Green awarded the 2011 British Vacuum Council Junior Prize and C R Burch Memorial Award and Medal.
- The Nano-Molecular Analysis for Emerging Technologies (NMAET) IV conference was an outstanding success.
- A new LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer has been installed in the Nanoanalysis laboratory for use with ambient ionisation sources including DESI, PADI and MALDI.
- Alex Shard, Jian Wang and Steve Spencer won the NPL Rayleigh Award for their paper, “XPS topofactors: determining overlayer thickness on particles and fibres", published in Surface and Interface Analysis.
- Felicia Green gave an invited lecture at Kings College London for part of their 'Analytical Science for Industry' MSc.
- The use of large Arn+ cluster primary ions for organic depth profiling is a current hot topic in SIMS...
- Charles Clifford has been appointed chair of the British standards committee overseeing measurement and characterisation in nanotechnologies
- Ian Gilmore is now Chairman of VAMAS Technical Working Area 2 (TWA 2) on Surface Chemical Analysis.
- A warm welcome to Andrew Pollard , who joined the Surface and Nanoanalysis Group this month.
- Felicia Green was awarded a DPhil for her thesis "Identification of complex molecules at surfaces and interfaces".