Microanalysis & Analytical Microscopy Research Group
Major Instrumentation Resources:
- JEOL 8600 Electron Microprobe with wavelength-dispersive x-rayspectrometry
(WDS) and energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS),automated
- JEOL 840 Analytical Scanning Electron Microscope, with WDS and EDS,
automated
- Hitachi S4500 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
- Electroscan 2020 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope
- Philips CM30 Analytical Electron Microscope (EDS and parallel EELS)
- Philips CM300 Field Emission 300 kV Scanning Transmission Electron
Microscope
- Vacuum Generators HB-501 Field Emission Scanning Transmission Electron
Microscope (EDS and parallel EELS, located at the NIST/NIH Nanomete Analysis
Facility)
- Electron/X-ray Optical Bench for fundamental studies
- Cameca IMS-3F Ion Microscope
- Cameca IMS-4F Ion Microscope/Ion Microprobe
- Kratos/Cambridge Mass Spectrometry PRISM Time-of-Flight SIMS/LAMMS
- Leybold-Heraeus LAMMA-500 Laser Microprobe Mass Analyzer
- Laser Raman microprobe (NIST-developed) with parallel detection and
multichannel spectrometer
- Brucker Micro-Raman/Fourier-transform Infrared Microscope
- Philips Automated Powder X-ray Diffractometers (three units)
- Rigaku Rotating Anode X-ray Source (18 kW) with Position Sensitive
Microdiffractometer and Powder Diffractometer
- X-ray Optical Bench for fundamental focussing studies
- Park Scientific Atomic Force Microscope
- Leitz, Wild and Olympus Optical Microscopes, automated fluorescence
spectrometer
- Video Radiation Detector/Perceptics imaging station
- Ion Beam Milling and Ion Beam Sputter-Deposition Systems
DEC VAX 3900; micro-VAX workstations, IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers