Sample Preparation Laboratory

Metallographic and bulk sample preparation room.

In recognition of the fact that sample preparation is important in materials characterization, our laboratory has extensive facilities for metallographic, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) sample preparation. The various categories include a
dark room for developing negatives, as well as:

Metallographic and SEM Sample Preparation Facility

• Struers’ Primopress, Uniforce and Buehler’s Simplimet for sample mounting
• Struers’ RotoPol-21 and RotoPol-2 for grinding
• Struers' Vibratory polisher, Abrapol-2 and Buehler’s Vibromet2 for polishing
• Struers’ Accutom-5 for cutting

TEM sample preparation room.

TEM Sample Preparation Facility

• Low speed saw
• Struers TenuPol-5 jet polishing system
• Gatan dimpler
• Gatan Precision Ion Polishing System (PIPS)
• Gatan Solarus™ (Model 950) Advanced Plasma Cleaning System
• Fischione ion mill

For more information on metallographic bulk sample preparation, please contact Bob Goddard. For more information on TEM sample preparation, please contact Yi-Feng Su or Yan Xin.