Charged-particles Optics Groups and Codes

• Find out about Ernst Ruska, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986 for inventing the electron microscope.
• Simion Programs
• Physics research groups at Arizona State University, including
  • Electron Diffraction and Imaging, Scanning Probe Microscopy, and Surface Science and Materials Physics
• The Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, also at ASU
• The transformed Quantum Dynamics group, Manchester University, UK, now called AMLaM (Atomic, Molecular & Laser Manipulation) Group, featuring electron optics specialists George King and Frank Read.
• Charged Particle Optics Programmes (Frank Read)
• T.U. Delft, Holland
• Particle Optics Group (Pieter Kruit)
• ISI Brno, Czech Republic (Click on the flag for the version in English!)
• This institute has substantial teams developing LEEM, SEM and Environmental Microscopy, and a wide interest in other forms of technique development, supported by Electron optical computations, including
• Finite Element Programs (Bohumila Lencova), who also markets her own programs
• Czech student: SIM3D Programs (Jakub Zlamal) Hi Jakub, glad to hear you are almost ready to graduate.
• Portland State University, Oregon
  • Electron Optics (Gertrude Rempfer)
  • Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) (Ray Egerton), who also works at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and has downloadable programs on his website there.
  • Nanostructure science (Jun Jiao)
• An extensive list of links of interest to the ion beam community, entitled Particle-Surface Resources, is maintained by Mark Shapiro of California State University at Fullerton.

A small selection of Electron Optics Companies

• The established Field Emission firm, FEI, originated in 1971 from Lynn Swanson's field emission laboratory at what is now the Oregon Graduate Institute. There are now several divisions of the company, including the Beam Technology division. Since 1997 FEI has 'integrated operations' with Philips Electron Optics (what a polite term for a takeover), as explained in their Corporate Profile page.
• An important spectroscopy-microscopy firm, EMiSPEC Systems now has many data and control systems linked in with major manufacturers. This firm was started by post-docs and graduate students from ASU's microscopy efforts, and is still based in Tempe, Arizona. Their mission statement is also a model for a firm like this; they might have added "we share your pain". This is really hard work that deserves to succeed.
• Martin Prutton and Mohamed El-Gomati, amongst their other interests, ran York Electron Optics Ltd for several years, and are now trading as York Probe Sources Ltd.
• Two sample consultancies, based around electrostatic Charged Particle Optics programs and Micromagnetics Simulations.

Microscopy Societies and Databases

• The Microscopy Society of America (MSA), the Institute of Physics' Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG), and the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) organize relevant conferences and conference sessions on charged particle optics and related microscopy-based topics.
• Recently, the European Microscopy Society (EMS) got underway; the next European Conference will be in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2004. All such societies are federated into international bodies, such as the International Federation of Societies for Electron Microscopy (IFSEM), which is the umbrella organization that hosted the international conference on EM, ICEM-15, in Durban, South Africa from 1-6 September 2002. The next world conference will be held in Sapporo, Japan in September 2006.
• The Microscopy and Microanalysis Programs site and listserver maintained by Nestor Zaluzec at Argonne National Lab.
• On-line image tools and EM Yellow Pages maintained by Pierre-Henri Jouneau and Pierre Stadelmann at EPFL Switzerland.
• A searchable product, services and buyers guide: Microscopy Online.