1. UCSB Materials Dept. Microscopy And Microanalysis Facility
LEAP APT
Kratos XPS
Cameca IMS 7f-Auto SIMS
MRL funding. MRL outreach. (PREM)

2. Outreach PREM and Cal Poly
Live and
remote
sessions
SIMS,XPS

3. Challenges in Mat. Sci. Interpretation, education, peer review
Teaching instrument use
Writing instruction manuals
Teaching interpretation
Many schools lack a Mat. Sci. major
Teaching Mat. Sci. (physics, chem)

4. There is science behind the answer
Typical XPS question
Is this a peak ?
There is science behind the answer
The software doesn’t know the science

5. Problems in the literature
Data too noisy to be making detailed inferences
Background incorrect
Peak widths incorrect
Satellite structure incorrect
No one with XPS experience was asked
(peer review issue).

6. scientific publishing
Let’s Stop Pretending
That Peer Review Works
By Julia Belluz and Steve Hoffman
Dec. 7, 2015
The problem with
scientific publishing
March 30, 2017
More inclusive internal review
Appreciation of lab managers’ teaching role