Central Facility for Electron Microscopy

: The CFEM is intended to be a multi-disciplinary research site serving both academic and industrial researchers in Nebraska. Centralization and consolidation of Electron Microscopy equipment and moneys from many centers, projects and industries makes available more and better equipment to researchers than any one participant could afford. Electron Microscopy has shown itself as the tool of choice among researchers in the materials discipline and so is integral to Nebraska's goal of establishing competitiveness in the materials field.

To contribute to Nebraska's scientific capabilities by enabling researchers to use "state-of-the-art" equipment to do "cutting-edge" work in the materials field. .
Establish the University of Nebraska as a premier materials research center.
Aid Nebraska industries by providing essential instrumentation and failure analysis capabilities.

: To provide materials characterization capabilities to researchers at the University of Nebraska and throughout the state. Thus contributing to Nebraska's goal of becoming competitive in the growing field of Materials Science and Engineering(MS&E). The Facility provides researchers the means to explore materials on the sub-micrometer scale; allowing determination of:

Topography (features as small as 10 nm)
Morphology (features as small as 1 nm)
Microstructure (features as small as 1.94 Å point-to-point )
Crystal Structure (indirect[diffraction] or direct[imaging to 1.94 Å] determination)
Defects in Crystal Structure (direct imaging at the atomic scale)
Elemental Composition (detection of groups of 100 atoms, compositions to 1 wt%)
Failure Analysis (samples as large as a softball (6-8") may be examined non-destructively)