The 1st FIT4NANo summer school took place in Brno, Czech Republic, from 20-24. June 2022 and was organized by the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ISI) and CEITEC Brno University of Technology (CEITEC BUT).
The mornings were filled with lectures available to on-site as well as online participants, while the afternoon sessions were filled with hands-on training in the labs.
Morning Program
Monday, 20 June
9 a.m. CET
Instrumentation & analytics
Nico Klingner, HZDR
- Instrumentation
– Liquid Metal Ion Sources
– Gas Field Ion Sources
– Column Optics - Instrument design
– Vacuum system
– Hardware and electronics
– Laboratory - Secondary Electron Detectors
– Stages and sample holders
– Sample preparation
– Software and operation of a FIB - Scanning Electron Columns
– Gas Injection Systems
– Nano Manipulators
– Analytics
Tuesday, 21 June
9 a.m. CET
FIB Simulation Software Hands-on session
Silvan Kretschmer, HZDR
Software requirements:
– SRIM installation
Lecture:
- Binary Collision Approximation:
Kinematics of ion-target atom interaction
Energy transfer - Cross-Sections:
Rutherford scattering cross-section
Displacement cross-section - Ion Stopping:
Nuclear Stopping
Electronic Stopping
Hands-On session: SRIM
Wednesday, 22 June
9 a.m. CET
Ion-solid interaction & simulations
Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, HZDR
- Irradiation effects from atomistic simulations
– Theoretical background
– Choice of the method - Doing ion-irradiation simulations in practice
– Molecular dynamics simulations
– Interatomic potentials and their accuracy
– Computational setup - Two-dimensional (2D) materials under ion bombardment
– Simulations of ion impacts on free-standing 2D materials
– Simulations of ion irradiation of supported 2D materials - Tailoring electronic and optical properties of 2D materials using ion irradiation
– Effect of defects on the electronic and transport properties of 2D materials
– Role of defects on the optical properties of 2D materials
Thursday, 23 June
9 a.m. CET
Applications
Katja Höflich, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
- Introduction and overview
- Subtractive FIB processing- material science:
– cross-sectioning
– TEM lamellae
– mechanical testing
– fiber-optical components
– plasmonic(photonic components
– nanoprobes
– NEMS
– quantum materials - Gas-assisted FIB processing- ion-induced chemistry
– nanostructures for electronics, for mechanics, for optics - Defect engineering- defect creation
– low-dimensional materials
– modification of optical properties
– irradiation-induced damage
Friday, 24 June
9 a.m. CET
Imaging, bio and 3D reconstruction
Matthias Schmidt, UFZ
- particularities of bio-specimens (in comparison to materials-science)
- FIB applications in the life-sciences developed in the last millennium
– proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE)
– scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM)
– secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) - the “revolution in ultra-microscopy”
- FIB-SEM
– general concept of the technique and preparation of the specimen
– application examples
– cryo-FIB-SEM
– correlative approaches (light microscopy – FIB-SEM)
– large volumes - helium-ion microscopy in the life sciences
– HIM SE-imaging examples (sample preparation)
– ion-milling of biological samples (challenges)
– other imaging modes (STIM, BSI, HIM-SIMS…)
– correlative approaches
– outlook: cryo-HIM
Afternoon Program
Each participant will be able to choose their afternoon program. Sign ups will be available once the participants were accepted.
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Summer School Grant
Successful applicants receive a travel grant to participate in the summer school to cover their expenses. The grant includes a daily allowance of 100€ and travel reimbursement of up to 500€ based on actual invoice.
Eligibility
In total, 15 students will be accepted to the school.
The target group for the summer schools are students.
Preference will be given to applicants who are members of the FIT4NANO action (Create an eCOST account and sign up here by joining one of our work groups) as well as to applicants from ITC countries.
Application Procedure
Please download this form and upload it along with your CV (in 1 PDF file) when you fill in the application.
Applications
Venue of the morning program
Lecture Hall of the
Institute of Scientific Instruments (ISI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences
(Ústav přístrojové techniky AV ČR, v. v. i.)
Královopolská 147
612 64 Brno
Location on Google Maps:
Brno & South Moravia
Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, is the capital of the South Moravian Region with a population of almost 400.000 people (700 thousand in the larger metro area). Modern, dynamic and fast growing centre of industry, trade, science, information technology, research and innovation with business incubators and centres of excellence in science. A city of universities with more than 86,000 students at 14 universities and 3 university campuses. Important centre of international trade fairs and exhibitions.Good business environment – major global companies and property developers. Support infrastructure for business in the field of science, research and innovation. High quality of life – a centre culture and sports, historical sights (Villa Tugendhat, a UNESCO site, functionalist architecture, shopping centres and services for leisure time and beautiful natural environment.
Recommended accommodation
A-sport Hotel
Vodova 108
612 00 Brno
Location on Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/52xYcY4tymE3174VA
How to get from the hotel to the Institute (a 10 minute walk):
How to get to Brno
By plane
Visitors of Brno can use International Airport Brno-Tuřany or International Prague Airport and Brno is also well connected to international airport in Vienna (Austria).
By bus or train
Student agency is a reliable bus and train company. From Vienna and Prague, we also recommend the RailJet train category to Prague and Vienna
www.idos.cz – universal bus/train search engine and public transport planner
By car
Brno is located on the main Czech highway D1 and D2. For highways and some bigger roads it is necessary to have a highway sticker, which is for sale at the border crossing, petrol stations, post offices and in the motor clubs.
By Taxi
Private Airport Transport BRNO TRANSPORT
Brno – Prague Brno 125 EUR
Brno – Vienna – Brno 130 EUR
Booking is available directly on the website.
Useful Links:
Public Transport – time tables
TAXI information (City TAXI Brno)
