Masashi Watanabe
       
LBNL Staff Scientist

mwatanabe@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-4634

Education
B.A., Metallurgy, Kyushu University, Japan
Ph.D., Metallurgy, Kyushu University, Japan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lehigh University

Awards
2005   KFJ Heinrich Young Scientist Award of the Microbeam Analysis Society
2006  Kazato Prize for Young Microscopist Award of the Kazato Research Foundation

General Research Interests
Masashi's research emphasizes materials characterization using various electron microscopy approaches involving analysis via X-rays and energy-loss electrons in analytical electron microscopes (AEMs) and atomic-resolution high angle annular dark-filed (HAADF) imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEMs). He developed the z (zeta)-factor method for quantitative X-ray analysis and implemented multivariate statistical analysis for spectrum images of X-rays and energy-loss electrons.

MSD Research Projects:

National Center for Electron Microscopy

Personal website: http://ncem.lbl.gov/masashi/index.html