Gas Catalysis Workshop
January 11, 2012
Hummingbird Scientific organized a gas-catalysis workshop November 3rd-5th, 2011, at Fernbrook in Olympia, WA. There were 14 attendees, including researchers from Purdue, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and several Hummingbird employees. We hope to hold more workshops of this sort in 2012 to encourage scientific collaboration between Hummingbird Scientific and our customers.Hummingbird at MRS Fall Meeting
December 12, 2011
Hummingbird Scientific will be attending the annual Fall Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston, MA from November 28 - December 1. Come visit us in Booth 207 at the Exhibit to learn more about our newest in-situ TEM products and talk to our scientists and engineers.2011 NCEM User Meeting
August 12, 2011
Hummingbird will have an exhibitor table at the 2011 National Center for Electron Microscopy and Molecular Foundry Users' Meeting on October 5 and 6. Come meet Hummingbird staff and discuss your electron microscopy needs during this event.2nd Annual In-Situ TEM Fluid Holder Workshop
August 12, 2011
Immediately following the 2011 FEMMS meeting Hummingbird Scientific will organize the 2nd Annual In- Situ TEM fluid holder workshop, which is aimed at users of in-situ TEM fluid holders. The workshop will run on the afternoon of September 23 and September 24. The location will be in or around the FEMMS conference hotel.FEMMS 2011
August 12, 2011
Hummingbird will be on-site at the Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science 2011 meeting in Rohnert Park, CA from September 18-23.Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011
August 2, 2011
Hummingbird will be attending the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, from August 7 to 11. Come visit our booth (number 1232) at the Exhibit and learn more about our newest in-situ TEM products. Hummingbird staff will also be contributing to the scientific program.Hummingbird Receives Tibbetts Award
February 15, 2011
Hummingbird Scientific has received a Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the development of a commercially available system for nanoscale imaging of materials in controlled fluid environments inside the transmission electron microscope (see: Liquid Flow Holder, Atmospheric Gas Flow Holder). SBA presents the awards to companies and individuals that have advanced technological innovation and economic growth.
"Some of the most important scientific questions in the fields of chemistry, nanoscience, bioscience and materials science revolve around high resolution imaging of materials. The technique developed in this project will allow these materials to be studied at high resolution in their native environment inside the TEM," said Norman Salmon, president of Hummingbird Scientific. "The technology that has resulted from this project is transformative and will have substantial impact potential across these scientific fields.
"Hummingbird Scientific's Tibbetts Award recognizes the company's work providing new ways in which materials can be characterized at high magnifications inside the TEM. Their systems are expected to be a core technology for enabling a range of scientific advances, from developing efficient batteries and other energy storage devices, studying the structure of biological materials, to targeting cancer cells.
"Hummingbird Scientific is pleased to win this prestigious award, we are very proud of all our people and the efforts they have made to build a successful company," continued Salmon. "The SBIR and STTR program has been extremely valuable to our growth. We would also like to recognize our local SBA office and the Thurston County Economic Development Council (EDC), as well as the Washington Technology Center (WTC) who all have been instrumental in our development."
Daan Hein Alsem, Hummingbird Scientific's director of research, accepted the award at a ceremony this morning in Washington, DC. Afterward, they met with SBA Administrator, Karen Mills, and attended a reception at the White House.
Read the full press release here in PDF format.
Hummingbird Turns Six!
November, 2010
We're celebrating six years of business with the launch of our new website! Please read a Letter from the Founders of Hummingbird Scientific, Norman Salmon and Eric Stach.Magnetic Vector Tomography
July, 2010
The groups of Marc de Graef at Carnegie Mellon University and Amanda Petford-Long at Argonne National Laboratory have published the first paper showing magnetic vector tomography using a Hummingbird Scientific tomography holder with a specially designed sample carrier.
Paper Abstract: The vector potential is central to a number of areas of condensed matter physics, such as superconductivity and magnetism. We have used a combination of electron wave phase reconstruction and electron tomographic reconstruction to experimentally measure and visualize the three-dimensional vector potential in and around a magnetic Permalloy structure. The method can probe the vector potential of the patterned structures with a resolution of about 13 nm. A transmission electron microscope operated in the Lorentz mode is used to record four tomographic tilt series. Measurements for a square Permalloy structure with an internal closure domain configuration are presented.
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