Rates

For Academic rate users:  After 24 hours of use of a given tool in a billing quarter, the Group 1 – 3 rates
below are reduced by 50% for that user, for that tool, for the rest of that billing quarter.

Shared User Tool Rates

Instrument Group 1
Tool Technique US Acad. / Govt. Rate* Industry & Non-US Acad. Rate Addl. notes
Agilent G200 Nanoindentation $22/hr $44/hr
Bruker TI-980 Nanoindentation
Bruker Icon AFM
Bruker Tornado XRF
Nicolet 6700 FTIR
Thermo iN10MX FTIR
Keyence VHX-600 & -7000 3D Optical Microscopy
Hysitron TI-900 Nanoindentation
Renishaw Qontor (Vis-NIR) Raman Spectroscopy
Renishaw In-Via (UV-IR) Raman Spectroscopy
Hitachi SU8010 SEM
LEO 1530 SEM EDS
Panalytical Alpha-1 MPD XRD
Panalytical Empyrean XRD, SAXS
Panalytical X’Pert Pro MRD XRD
Rigaku Miniflex powder XRD XRD
Instrument Group 2
Tool Technique US Acad. / Govt. Rate* Industry & Non-US Acad. Rate
Bruker Icon-IR AFM-IR $44/hr $75/hr
Hitachi SU8230 SEM EDS
TESCAN Mira SEM EBSD
Zeiss Ultra 60 SEM CL, EDS
JEOL 100 CSX-II TEM
Hitachi HT7700 TEM
Kratos Axis Ultra XPS
Thermo NEXSA XPS
Thermo K-Alpha XPS
Instrument Group 3
Tool Technique US Acad. / Govt. Rate* Industry & Non-US Acad. Rate
Hitachi HD-2700 TEM $88/hr $176/hr EDS
FEI Tecnai F30 TEM EDS
Thermo Helios 5CX FIB/SEM EDS
IONTOF 5-300 ToF-SIMS
Long-Run Instrument Group**
Tool Technique Rate T_use < 12hr Rate: 12 hrs < T_use < 60 hrs Rate:  T_use > 60 hrs
Rigaku Smartlab SE XRD $36/hr $12/hr $4/hr
Rigaku Smartlab XE XRD
Thermo iCAP – RQ ICP-MS
Thermo Neoma MC ICP-MS
Zwick-Roell ZHU 2.5 Microindenter

Training on any tool is charged at $22/hr for any researcher
MCF staff time is billed at $75/hr for any remote work (does not apply to training sessions).

*U.S. Academic and U.S. Government users pay the internal academic rate.

**Rates for long-run group reset after each use instead of with cumulative usage time for billing quarter