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icon will send you back to this menu. 1. Introduction.This document announces the existence of a microscopy newsgroup on the Usenet called sci.techniques.microscopy. This document is intended to be a regular posting to various related newsgroups to raise awareness of its existence.
This document may also be accessed via the Microbeam Analysis Society Web Server at
URL=http://microanalysis.org/
The main aim of sci.techniques.microscopy is to provide an open, easily accessible, electronic conferencing system or bulletin board for the crystallographic community on the Internet. The newsgroups (in theory) allow queries and discussion to take place in days to weeks, that would take months to years (or not at all) on conventional paper journals. Opportunities for informal discussion and exchange of information and opinions that might only occur at international conferences can routinely take place on the Internet newsgroups.
Participants are welcome and encouraged to browse, read, follow-on, post, and use this newsgroup as an information server, discussion area and electronic conferencing system to its maximum advantage. Being an unmoderated newsgroup, no one owns or runs this newsgroup so. Thus participants should feel uninhibited to freely use this crystallographic discussion forum.
2. Etiquette.It is requested that, in light of the very broad range of subtopics in microscopy, posts to this newsgroup be submitted with a subject heading that at least contains the area of microscopy discussed in the post. For example:
Subject: TEM: Which TEM film to use? Which is the best?
The use of common acronyms is encouraged to promote brevity (see the list in the Charter section below).
3. Charter.The main aim of sci.techniques.microscopy is to provide an open forum for the discussion of microscopy and related fields on the Internet. The newsgroups allow he rapid and timely discussion of opinions and information that would take months or years (or not at all) on conventional paper journals. This newsgroup will eventually be linked with the microscopy@anlemc.msd.anl.gov mailing list and archived at the same site. Technical suggestions as to the best way to accomplish this are welcome, and may be directed to either John F. Mansfield or Nestor J. Zaluzec via their respective E-mail addresses below.
John.F.Mansfield@umich.edu
Zaluzec@aaem.amc.anl.gov.
Please note that this proposed newsgroup is intended to be an open forum for discussion of microscopy. Thus relevant topics for this newsgroup should only be limited to what the participants in this proposed newsgroup regard as microscopy.
Optical Microscopy - OM
Confocal Microscopy - CM
Scanning Probe/Force Microscopy (formerly Atomic Force Microscopy) - SPM, SFM, AFM
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy - STM
Scanning Electron Microscopy - SEM
Transmission Electron Microscopy - TEM
High Resolution Electron Microscopy - HREM
Analytical Electron Microscopy - AEM
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy - STEM
High Voltage Electron Microscopy - HVEM
X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy - XEDS
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy - EELS
Electron Microprobe Analysis (EMPA)
Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (WDS)
Diffraction Contrast Imaging
Phase Contrast Imaging
Selected Area Electron Diffraction - SAED or SAD
Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction - CBED
Image Filtering
Field Ion Microscopy - FIM
Electron Holography
X-ray Microscopy
Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
Ultrasonic Imaging
Specimen Preparation (Electropolishing, Ion Milling, Ultramicrotoming, etc.)
3D reconstruction
Image Processing
Software
Data formats
Databases
Hardware/Equipment - specs, opinions, etc.
Applications
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences.
Preparation techniques.
Non-ambient techniques
General Discussion/opinions/questions.
Positions vacant
As well as anything else that is relevant to microscopy in general.
4.
Where is my News Server?You should ask your local Network Guru or your Internet Service Provider for the address of your local news server. failing that you can try Microsoft's server at:
or you can try The University of Michigan College of Engineering News Server at:
news:srvr1.engin.umich.edu (note you must be registered in the umich domain to use this one).
Comments, queries, criticisms and suggestions are welcome as either followons to this post or via email.
John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)
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