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Analytical Instrumentation Facility

Transmission Electron Microscopy Lab

A person in a white button-down shirt stands with arms crossed in a laboratory, smiling at the camera, with microscopes and lab equipment visible on a workbench behind them.

Apr 29, 2026

Meet Swaroop Saralkar

I’m a second-year PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering program at NC State. Originally from the Indian west coast state of Gujarat, I work in Dr. Kinga Unocic’s…

Oct 31, 2025

When Science Gets Spooky: “Bend Contours in Gallium Nitride” Wins AIF’s Spooky Image Contest

We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) Spooky Image Contest! A huge congratulations to Michael Carter, whose entry titled “Bend Contours in Gallium Nitride” has…

Apr 16, 2025

Goodbye, Titan!

UPDATE: June 2, 2025 Thank you for celebrating the Titan with us! We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for the this event! Your…
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Nov 13, 2024

AIF User Spotlight

Avery is a 3rd year graduate student in the Chemistry department at Duke University, in Prof. Ivan Moreno-Hernandez’s group. They’re deeply motivated by climate change and the desire to know…

Nov 18, 2021

Dr. Chris Winkler Wins Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Congratulations to our TEM Lab Manager, Chris Winkler, for winning the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award!   Chris Winkler is a lab manager and a top electron microscopist…

Sep 27, 2021

Meet Cierra DellaRova

Tell me a little about yourself! This is my first year in the Materials Science and Engineering department with Dr. Wenpei Gao as my advisor. As for my hobbies, I…

Sep 25, 2020

AIF TEM Research Associate Wins M&M Student Poster

  Aubrey Penn, President-Elect of the MSA Student Council, won the 2020 M&M Student Poster Award. Her poster, A STEM-EELS Investigation of La0.7Sr0.3CrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Multilayer Thin Films, was a winner in the…

Jan 9, 2020

Cool Science: Nanotubes and Lungs

Unstained alveolar macrophage containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT’s) in the cytoplasm. Dr. Mary Jane Thomassen’s group at East Carolina University is currently investigating the potential deleterious effects of inhaled MWCNT’s…

Oct 16, 2019

Cool Science: Plant Health

“The main innovation of this work lies in two areas: first, we use plasmonic nanostructures as a new class of sensing elements to greatly expand the library of targets that…

Sep 19, 2019

Cool Science: Solar Cell Operation

  “The stability of organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells is limited by degradation from oxygen and water. Yang et al. show that in situ reaction of perovskites with sulfate or phosphate…