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Narrator: Welcome to the future of technology, and the home of collaboration. The Penn State
Millenium Science Complex.
Pantano: The Millenium Science Complex is kind of a unique building for a university.
It's not focused on a college, department, or educational mission. It's here primarily
for interdisciplinary research.
Datta: Because most of the problems that we are going to face from now on, most likely
is not going to be solved by a single person.
Narrator: And housed along side the offices of the chemists, material engineers, and scientists
are the tools necessary to design, build, study and implement next generation technologies.
Trolier-McKinstry: My group covers the whole span, from making stuff, to characterizing
stuff, to turning it into widgets.
Narrator: The corner stone of this complex is also one of it's newest tenets. The Titan
is an aberration corrected electron microscope. One of only three Titans this versatile and
this powerful in the U.S.
Pantano: The electron microscope allows us to look inside of materials and see the atoms.
And see the way they are packed together.
Clark: Once we're able to do that, then we can tell a manufacturer "the reason why your
steel is weak, or the reason that your computer is not performing well, is because there is
an extra atom at an interface."
Narrator: The Titan is a powerful tool in the manufacturing process.
Datta: We can actually build the devices, test the devices in my lab here, and if they
do work, we need to find out. We can image them inside the Titan to see what we did right
and what we did wrong.
Narrator: And as the capabilities of the University grow, so does the outside interest.
Clark: So when we found out we were getting the Titan. My phone started ringing. And not
only was I getting call from internal faculty, but also external faculty at other universities,
as well as companies.
Trolier-McKinstry: I probably have industrial visitors in my office once a week. In some
of the user facilities it's once a day.
Clark: Because they all need this capability to be able to image individual atoms as well
as collect elemental maps.
Narrator: And the benefits go well beyond the industry interaction.
Pantano: Our students are very well prepared to go to work in industry because in some
respects, they have already been there.
[Professor instructing students]
Pantano: Bottom line, we greatly increased the capacity to do research on this university
campus by building this building.
Trolier-McKinstry: This is really cool. This is going to change how we do science.
Penn State . . . Inspiring Research.