Historical Context

The Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF) at OSU is a multi-user facility consisting of a significant number of world-class electron microscopes providing researchers in Ohio with unprecedented capabilities for materials characterization down to the atomic scale. Among the inventory are four transmission electron microscopes (TEM), including an aberration corrected (scanning) TEM, two dual-beam focused ion beam (DB-FIB) instruments, and three scanning electron microscopes (SEM). Since its inception 25 years ago, this facility has been providing sophisticated materials characterization capabilities to the science and technology community in Ohio with over 554 internal OSU users and 37 external users.

Closely aligned with the CEOF is the Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM) has as its goal the development of new advanced metallic materials and processes through the coordination of new computational tools for modeling material behavior with new experimental tools for materials characterization. Characterization, property measurement and modeling activities have focused on titanium alloys, superalloys and aluminum alloys in work funded by AFOSR, DARPA and NSF.  This vibrant effort has also stimulated active interactions with (including direct funding from) industry partners, including a number of companies including GE Aviation, Ladish, Honda, Lincoln Electric and others.