Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Facilties

NCMN MEMBERS CELEBRATE MANY RECENT RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS IN NANOSCIENCE !
FACILITIES INFORMATION *see details for individual facilities:* Metallurgical and Mechanical Characterization, Cryogenics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, X-Ray Materials Characterization, Materials Preparation, Nanofabrication, Crystallography, Electron Microscopy, (campus locations map)


CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Services provided include unit cell determinations, complete structure determinations, and collection of single crystal data for users to solve and refine themselves.	ELECTRON MICROSCOPY The scope of the facility is "materials characterization" of the topography,morphology,elemental composition,crystalline microstruc-ture, crystal defects, and atomic arrangements of materials, largely on a scale from 10 micrometers down to the near-atomic level.	MATERIALS PREPARATION Two sputtering systems have been established to fabricate a variety of thin films, especially the nanostructured films including overlayers, multilayers, granular solids, clusters, etc. Two tube furnaces are available for sample (or target) annealing, doping, and sintering.	NANOFABRICATION The NCMN facility contains a large variety of equipment to prepare, fabricate, analysis, and characterize a wide range of nanostructure materials.

SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY Digital Instruments Nanoscope IIIa Dimension 3100 Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) Facility provide nanometer-scale charac -terization of materials by using STM, AFM, and MFM.	X-RAY MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION The NCMN X-Ray Characteriza-tion Facility is dedicated to materials identification and charac- terization through nondestructive, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and / or X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) techniques.	METALLURGICAL & MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION This facility contains a large variety of equipment to characterize the mechanical and physical properties of a wide range of materials. The facility focuses on using the many materials characterization aspects to perform failure analyses on components.	CRYOGENICS Cryogenics provides the means for obtaining Liquid Nitrogen and Liquid Helium for low temperature research, cold traps, etc.