INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE
X-ray Scattering:
- Wide Angle
- Small Angle
- Microdiffraction
Proximal Probes:
Ion Beam Analysis
Optical Characterization:
Electron Microscopy:
Electron Spectroscopy Laboratory (Auger and X-ray Photoelectron):
- Auger Electron Spectroscopy
- Physical Electronics Model 545
- Thin Film Depth Profiling to ~1 µm
- Spatial resolution ~10 µm
- Multi-sample handling
- Physical Electronics Model 595 Scanning Auger Microprobe
- In-depth Elemental Profiling to ~1 µm
- Spatial Resolution < 300 nm
- Multi-sample handling
- X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ESCA)
- Physical Electronics Model 550 (large DPCMA)
- Non-monochromatic Mg-Al Kα x-ray source
- Spatial Resolution ~2 mm
- Energy Resolution to ~1.3 eV
- Surface analysis only at present (no depth profiling)
- Hot and cold stages
Infrared spectroscopy:
Supporting Facility:
Neutron Scattering:
ASSOCIATED LABORATORIES
The Thermal Analysis
Center.
Contact: Lorraine F. Francis, tel: 612-625-0559, e-mail: lfrancis@umn.edu
- The TAC maintains several instruments for the thermal analysis of specimens
both DTA and TGA.
Coating Process Fundamentals Laboratory:
Contact: Wieslaw J Suszynski, tel: 612-626-0895,
e-mail: suszy001@tc.umn.edu
- The CPFL maintains several instruments for analyzing aspects of the coating process.
Polymer Lab Service Center:
Contact: David Giles, tel: 612-625-0880,
e-mail: giles@cems.umn.edu
- Rheology Characterization Lab (a wide range of rheometers)
- Mixers and Injection Molders (Haake, Prism, DACA, & Morgan Press)
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Perkin Elmer)
- Gel Permeation Chromatograpy (Waters)
- Particle Size Analysis (Coulter LS230)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab
Contact: Steve Philson, tel: 612-626-0297,
e-mail: philson@nmr.chem.umn.edu
- The chemistry department NMR lab maintains 6 NMR instruments, plus an EPR.
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