November 2006 - On Nov. 15, Mr. LaGattas’ Advanced Placement Chemistry students traveled to Cornell to spend a day working with some of their most advanced imaging equipment.

The two main facilities visited were:

• The X-Ray Diffraction Facility, managed by Dr. Maura Weathers. This facility allowed students the opportunity to see and work with various materials research tools including a small angle X-Ray scattering system, a general diffraction detection system, powder diffractometers, a back-reflection Laue system and a high resolution diffractometer. These tools allowed students to visualize structures on the atomic level, and;
   

• The UHV-STEM/Keck FESEM Facility. The Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (UHV-STEM) and the Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) allowed our students to view some biological specimens at well over 100,000x magnification. The system is capable of magnifying structures to 1,000,000x m.