A casual opportunity immediately following the Millennium Café to learn about the breadth of analytical capabilities within the Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL). These brief (30 minute) multi-technique and interdisciplinary talks will highlight applications (not theory) to provide useful insights to novice and experienced researchers working across various science and engineering challenges.
If you have a film you probably need to know its thickness. Film thickness measurements are important to everything from polymers to epitaxial 2D materials, but choosing the optimal technique is often not straightforward. We will discuss some advantages and complications of several methods available at Penn State. Techniques to be highlighted include: X-ray methods, SEM, TEM, optical methods and other destructive and non-destructive techniques. Are there really 101 ways? Come find out.