The tools and staff members in the MCF can analyze samples in multiple different ways from the macro level to the atomic level. Here is a sampling of what we can help you to discover.
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| Scanning Probe-based Techniques | |
| __ | Electron/Ion-based Techniques |
| Photon-(including x-ray)-based Techniques | |
| Molecular Property (e.g., size, mass, thermal) Measurement Techniques | |
| Mechanical Property Measurements |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscopy | |||
| _FM | Analytical AFM modes (e.g., cAFM, EFM, KPFM, PFM, MFM, etc.) |
PL | PhotoLuminescence | |
| CL | CathodoLuminescence (coming soon) | Raman | Raman spectroscopy | |
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CSM a.k.a DMA |
Continuous Stiffness Measurement a.k.a Dynamic Mechanical Analysis |
REELS | Reflected Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy | |
| DSC | Differential Scanning Calorimetry | SAXS | Small Angle X-ray Scattering | |
| EBSD | Electron BackScatter Diffraction | SEM | Scanning Electron Microscopy | |
| EDS | Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy | STM/S | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/ Spectroscopy | |
| FIB | Focused Ion Beam micro-machining | (S)TEM | (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy | |
| FTIR | Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy | ToF-SIMS | Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy | |
| GC- & LC- MS | Gas Chromatography & Liquid Chromatography- Mass Spectroscopy | TGA | Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis | |
| GPC | Gel Permeation Chromatography | UPS | Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy | |
| ICP-MS | Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectroscopy | UV.Vis/NIR | UltraViolet-Visible / Near InfraRed.Spectrophotometry | |
| Instron & MTS frames | Electromechanical & Servohydraulic test frames for mechanical (e.g., tensile, torsional, creep, fatigue, fracture, etc.) testing | XAS | X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (e.g., XAFS, NEXAFS) | |
| ISS | Ion Scattering Spectroscopy (coming soon) | XES | X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy | |
| LIBS / OES | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy / Optical Emission Spectroscopy | XPS | X–Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy | |
| Nanoindentation | Nanoscale mechanical property measurement (e.g., hardness & modulus) | XRD | X–Ray Diffraction | |
| XRF | X–Ray Fluorescence | |||
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