Characterization Facilities
The School of Materials Engineering has a variety of facilities that can assist in characterization of material microstructure (grain size and orientation, phase, elemental composition, precipitate structure), surface area and porosity, mechanical properties, absorbed gasses, etc.
Equipment is available to all Materials Engineering students. Reasonable accommodations will be made for out-of-department users with a legitimate need to use School of Materials Engineering facilities; however, department labs are not a 'user facility' and should not be regarded as such.
Training and Lab Access
Request Equipment Training (iLab Project Requests)
Equipment Mailing Lists (required for equipment training)
Microstructure and Composition
Electron Microscopy (SEM and TEM)
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Physical Properties
Surface Area and Porosity (BET)
Particle Sizing (Coulter Counter)
Density (Gas Pycnometry)