Facility Description

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The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization, or (MC)2, is a College of Engineering core research facility located in the North Campus Research Complex  that provides services to the entire university. The facility, which provides low-vibration, low-field, environmentally controlled laboratory space, is approximately 8200 square feet and the principal equipment includes:

– A Cameca Local Electrode Atom Probe microscope (LEAP-5000HR) equipped with a reflectron for improved mass resolution with voltage pulsing and fs laser pulsing capability (250kHz)

– Four Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs):  

  • A JEOL 2100F Cs corrected STEM with a EDAX XEDS system and Gatan Imaging Filter
  • A JEOL 3100R05 cold field emission gun double Cs corrected transmission electron microscope with a Gatan Quantum GIF energy filter
  • A JEOL 2010F FasTEM AEM with an EDAX/Gatan XEDS, Gatan TV cameras and Imaging Filter
  • A Thermo Fisher Talos F200X G2, a 200 kV FEG scanning transmission electron microscope

– Two Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs):

  • A TESCAN MIRA3 GMU FEGSEM with EDAX XEDS and Pegasus EBSD system
  • A TESCAN RISE, combining Confocal Raman Imaging and Scanning Electron Microscopy

– Three Dual SEM/Focused Ion Beam Instruments (SEM/FIBs):

  • A Thermo Fisher Helios Dualbeam FIB with EDAX EDS, Pegasus EBSD and OmniProbe manipulator
  • A Thermo Fisher Nova 200 Nanolab Dualbeam FIB with EDAX XEDS system and OmniProbe manipulators
  • A Thermo Fisher Helios G4 PFIB UXe, a high-resolution SEM with an Xe plasma focused ion beam

– A Veeco Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope

– A Kratos Axis Ultra XPS system

– A Hysitron TI 950 TriboIndenter fitted with bright field and fluorescence imaging capabilities

– A Zeiss Xradia Versa 520 3D X-ray Microscope with LabDCT module for crystallographic analysis