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Development of a System to Provide Full, Real-time Remote Control of a Scanning Electron Microscope across the Second Generation Internet: The Teaching SEM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2002

John F. Mansfield*
Affiliation:
North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Andy Adamson
Affiliation:
Center for Information Technology Integration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kevin Coffman
Affiliation:
Center for Information Technology Integration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*
North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory, 417 SRB, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
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Abstract

The development and makeup of a real-time full remote control system for the University of Michigan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Teaching SEM is described. The instrument was initially controlled via the campus local area Ethernet network and cable TV network. The latest implementation employs Fast Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks, and moving picture experts group (MPEG) video encoding to effect the remote control via the computer network alone. Remote control demonstrations from Washington, DC, Dearborn, MI, and Emerson School, Ann Arbor, MI are described.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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