Recent News

CONGRATULATIONS TO BETTY HUANG FOR SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDING HER MASC THESIS
Group member Betty Huang successfully defended her M.A.Sc thesis, titled "An Innovative Fabrication Route to Machining Micro-Tensile Specimens Using Plasma-Focused Ion Beam and Femtosecond Laser Ablation and Investigation of the Size Effect Phenomenon Through Mechanical Testing of Fabricated Single Crystal Copper Micro-Tensile", on September 20, 2023.

CONGRATULATIONS TO NASIM KHOONKARI FOR SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDING HER PHD THESIS
Group member Nasim Khoonkari successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Image Alignment of 2D and 3D Scanning Electron Microscopy Semiconductor Data Sets", on August 3, 2023.

M&M 2023
Caleb recently attended the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2023 meeting held in Minneapolis, where he presented his poster titled "Suspected Coupling of Dark Plasmonic Modes in Bilayer CdO"

Dr. Nabil Bassim

Biography

Nabil Bassim is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM -

  1. 1997 - 2002

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Materials Science

    University of Florida
  2. 1993-1997

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering

    University of South Florida

Selected Publications

Low-loss TeO2-coated Si3N4 waveguides for application in photonic integrated circuits

Henry C. Frankis, Khadijeh Miarabbas Kiani, Dawson B. Bonneville, Chenglin Zhang, Samuel Norris, Richard Mateman, Arne Leinse, Nabil D. Bassim, Andrew P. Knights, and Jonathan D. B. Bradley

Removing Stripes, Scratches, and Curtaining with Nonrecoverable Compressed Sensing

Jonathan Schwartz, Yi Jiang, Yongjie Wang, Anthony Aiello, Pallab Bhattacharya,Hui Yuan, Zetian Mi, Nabil Bassim, Robert Hovden

Green template-free synthesis and characterization of mesoporous alumina as a high value-added product in aluminum black dross recycling strategy

Mostafa Mahinroosta, Ali Allahverdi, Peng Dong, Nabil Bassim

Electron beam damage of epoxy resin films studied by scanning transmission X-ray spectromicroscopy

Weiwei Zhang, Lis Melo, Adam P Hitchcock, Nabil Bassim

Meet our team

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Image Processing
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2D Materials
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Focused Ion Beam Microscopy
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Biomaterials
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Metallic Micro Structures

Caleb Whittier

Ph.D. in Microscopy of Ion-Implanted Materials: applying advanced electron microscopy to assessing plasmonic behavior modified via focused ion beam

Alyssa Williams

Ph.D. in Microscopy of Biological Materials: Imaging biological and biomaterial interactions using focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy

Joachim de Fourestier

Ph.D. in Correlative Microscopy techniques in Materials Science and Applications Developer at Fibics Incorporated

Mehdi Mosayebi

Ph.D. in Microscopy of Metallic Materials: 3D microstructural characterization of steels using advanced electron microscopy and focused-ion beam