Introducing K-12 Students to Scanning Electron Microscopy.

On the 6th of May 1998 I was able to demonstrate the XL30FEG SEM at Emerson School in Ann Arbor. The computer control was performed across the Internet via Emerson's T1 link and the video signal was transmitted from EMAL on the Materials, Microscopy and Microanalysis Channel (UMTV channel 36) which was linked to the Ann Arbor Community Access TV Channel 9 which is broadcast on MediaOne's cable system.

The accompanying photograph shows John Mansfield controlling the XL30 FEGSEM in the North Campus EMAL from the Computer Classroom at Emerson School.

Real-Time Full Remote Control.

The week of the 6th of October Andy Adamson and Kevin Coffman and I were among a number of people demostrating the possibilites of Internet 2, the next generation in the development of the Internet . Using Adamson's and Coffman's secure video transfer system, I was able to fully control the Philips XL30 FEGSEM in the University of Michigan North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory from the offices of Highway 1 in Washington DC.

The accompanying photograph shows John Mansfield controlling the XL30 FEGSEM from Highway 1.