Shared Facilities

The Nanoscale Imaging, Spectroscopy and Properties (NISP) Lab is relatively new (less than 3 years) but already contains some excellent equipment that is available to everyone in the University and to government and industry. It is connected to MRSEC via funding and/or other collaborative effort.
NISPLab is dedicated to the characterization of the structure and […]

The CCMR provides an extensive, integrated, and versatile suite of materials preparation, analysis, testing, synthesis, and characterization capabilities. The seven shared experimental facilities occupy over 20,000 ft2 of space and are run by expert facility managers who are available for consultation and training.
Our facilities include:
• Hudson Mesoscale Processing Facility
• Integrated Microscopy Facilities
• Materials […]

The Integrated Microscopy Facility provides a variety of electron and optical microscopes for imaging small features and for microanalysis of the elemental composition of materials. The facility is operated by three expert managers who have many years of combined experience in advanced microscopy.
Instruments in this facility include:
Leica 440 SEM: 4.5 nm resolution at 30KV. […]

FUNCTION:
The facility is devoted to materials processing, crystal growth, device fabrication, and electronic & photonic materials. An extensive list of equipment is available in the Materials Processing and Crystal Growth Facility (MPCGF) of the Materials Research Center (MRC). The facility provides microfabrication tools for general use by the Northwestern community, government and industrial researchers. Various […]

Material specimens of dimensions in the range of 1nm to 5μm are essential for successful studies on structure, property, and functions of many materials and biological systems. The Hudson Mesoscale Processing Facility provides instrumentation and technical services to enable and promote scientific research in materials at small dimensions. The facility serves a broad cross-section of […]

Equipment for evaluating all the important characteristics of polymeric materials is available at the Polymer Characterization Facility.
The laboratory is used extensively by the polymer research community, particularly members of CCMR’s Interdisciplinary Research Groups and Seed projects, by the Polymers Community at Cornell and industrial members of Cornell’s Polymer Outreach Program (POP). The facility participates in […]

The Materials Facility is a multi-function and multi-purpose Research Support Facility providing a wide spectrum of services and apparatus for materials testing, preparation, and characterization.
It is the philosophy of the facility to have close interaction between staff and users. Hands-on involvement of students is stressed at the expense of wear and tear on the equipment […]

Offering a number of distinct advantages for materials research, this facility houses a small angle X-Ray scattering system (SAXS), a general area diffraction detection system, 2 powder diffractometers, a back-reflection Laue system, and a high-resolution diffractometer. For most samples, very little sample preparation is needed. All types of materials, including polymers, clays, metals, and ceramics […]

The goal of the MOCSI Facility (known informally as the Surface Facility) is to provide tools that can generate images of surface or near-surface characteristics, such as topography or electronic structure, at length scales from microns down to nanometers in environments ranging from ultra-high vacuum to fluids. The primary tools are specialized scanning probe microscopes […]

The CCMR Research Computing Facilities (CCMRCF) support the research goals of the Center in the areas of data acquisition, analysis, display of data, and computationally intensive modeling. The facilities also support information technologies that facilitate scientific collaboration such as e-mail and web servers. The facilities provide consulting, network administration and security services, as well as […]