Materials Sample Preparation Laboratory

Description

Person in lab works on equipment
(Alexander Fisher-Wagner/UC Davis)

The materials sample preparation laboratory is used to prepare a variety of materials for SEM, TEM and optical microscopy analysis. Users have full access to the sample preparation laboratory once they have completed the necessary training.

List of Equipment

  • Gold sputter coater.

  • Buehler Isomet 4000 high-speed saw.

  • Buehler Isomet 1000 gravity-fed saw.

  • Gatan 656 dimple grinder.

  • Southbay D500i dimple grinder.

  • Gatan 601 disc cutter.

  • Buehler Vibromet 3 polisher.

  • Buehler AutoMet 300.

  • Fischione 1050 TEM ion mill.

  • Fischione 1020 plasma cleaner.

  • Fischione nanomill.

  • Buehler MiniMet 1000 polisher.

  • Nova ultramicrotome.

The acquisition of the Fischione ion mill Model 1050 and Fischione nanomill was funded by a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant, contract number N00014-15-1-2947 (PI: Klaus van Benthem) from the Office of Naval Research. 

Location

108 Kemper Hall.

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