HIM Applications
Imaging Insulating Biological Samples
Material: Rat kidney; Application: Medicine; Sample courtesy of H. Szeto, MD, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, NYC. Published in JASN November 23, 2016
The absence of metallic coating on biological samples enables imaging unprecedented details of the restoration of damaged rat kidney podocytes after novel medical treatment. (Scale=500nm)
The non-destructive sample preparation for HIM, makes it possible to do sequential multimodal imaging. Material: Nerve cell around a fiber; Application: Medicine; Sample courtesy of A. Merolli, MD, Rutgers University.
Fabrication/ nanoscale modification tool
Material: MgB2 Superconductor; Application: Physics/Engineering; Collaboration with X.X Xi. Temple University. Published in IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond 29 2019
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The He ion beam can locally induce material modifications to create nanoscale structures.
Fabrication/ Hi-Resolution Lithography
Material: Sn-based photoresist; Application: Chemistry/Engineering ; Collaboration with E. Garfunkel, Rutgers University. Published in Advances in Patterning Materials, 2018
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The He ion beam can be used to expose novel photoresists materials and image resulting structures.
Analytical Tool/ Ion Scattering Spectroscopy
In our instrument, the energy of scattered He ions can be detected using a time of flight detector. This newly developed method enables chemical analysis and channeling studies in the HIM. Consequently, both elemental analysis and crystal structure orientation and order can be probed. (Channeling in the helium ion microscope, Hijazi et al., Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research B 456 (2019) 92–96)
