The various short courses offered by AIF are designed to provide in-depth understanding of different techniques and hands-on operation of AIF instruments. Although courses can be lengthened or shortened to meet the needs of the student, most short courses are designed to run 1 day. Course attendance is limited to a maximum 4-6 students to ensure the maximum transfer of knowledge via maximization of student/teacher interaction and to provide for sufficient hands on instrument time.
Most recently available short courses can be found in recent news and AIF event and news calendar. AIF offers each short course multiple times every year. The cost for the short courses is $50 for NCSU students and for non-profit organization and $350 for attendants from industry.
Focus Ion Beam (FIB) Short Course
The FIB short course includes lectures covering an introduction to the FIB technique, an overview of the principles and operation of the FIB as well as applications such as FIB prepared SEM and TEM cross section. Also, there will be hands on demos of these applications on the AIF Quanta Dual Beam FIB-SEM. To insure each student receives a maximum of time on the FIB, the course will be limited to 4 participants. For more details and to register, please contact Fred Stevie at fred_stevie@ncsu.edu.
