Shared Facilities

CSEM provides an over-arching structure to administer nine shared facilities that foster interdisciplinary interactions and advance the discovery and understanding of new materials. All of the facilities are available to researchers across the Caltech campus and the Southern California region.
Electron Microscopy
X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering
Mechanical Testing
Material Simulation
Micro/Nanofabrication and Characterization
Solid-State NMR
Polymer Synthesis
Mass Spectrometry
Rheometry

Accessibility, Use, Supervision, and Cost RecoveryThe majority of instruments are housed in the labs of individual investigators,
hence their use is supervised by the graduate students and postdocs associated
with the lab. The exceptions are the MBE-growth chambers, TEM facility,
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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center operates eleven Central Facilities as Shared Experimental Facilities, each being key to the efficient and timely execution of the research and education programs. Ten of these facilities are currently operational and upgrades to these facilities are underway and outlined below. A Shared Facility on Nanoscience has recently been […]

* Film Formation Cluster: This cluster facilitates all necessary equipment for film fabrication, film formation, and includes powder coatings lab, UV curing facilities as well as thin film deposition laboratory.
* Morphological Cluster: This cluster facilitates the access to the state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy, environmental scanning electron microscopy, […]

The UW-MRSEC provides full or partial support for a variety of central facilities. A particular focus is facilities for characterization of materials on the nanoscale, but it also supports characterization equipment for greater length scales. This equipment is available to on-campus, and in most cases, off campus users. Access and charges are determined by the […]

The LRSM facilities play a vital role in the MRSEC research and in promoting collaboration and outreach. SEFs are a focal point for knowledge transfer to industry and graduate education. They are utilized by external organizations as well as MRSEC students and postdoctorals. PENN research centers that benefit from the SEFs include, The Johnson Foundation […]

Shared experimental facilities provide essential instrumentation for materials preparation and characterization, coupled with professional guidance and technical support, to Center participants and outside researchers from academe and industry. Shared experimental facilities play a special role in fostering interdisciplinary exchanges. The MRSEC has high-speed cameras, confocal microscopes, confocal profilometers, atomic force microscopy, materials preparation and rheological […]

The JHU MRSEC maintains a wide variety of shared facilities for materials fabrication, characterization, and measurement of physical properties. These experimental facilities are available for use by members of the JHU research community and other academic institutions. Use can also be extended to qualified research personnel from external profit and nonprofit organizations

Accessibility, Use, Supervision, and Cost Recovery
The majority of instruments are housed in the labs of individual investigators, hence their use is supervised by the graduate students and postdocs associated with the lab. The exceptions are the MBE-growth chambers, TEM facility, and the SPiFF processing facilities which see the most extensive use and are supervised at […]

Mechanical Testing
Facility
Computational Mechanics
Research Facility
Metallic Materials
Research Group
Nano & Micro
Mechanics Lab
X-Ray Diffraction
Facility
Molecular Beam
Epitaxy Facility
Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Facility
Use the above links to find out more about the facilities. You will also find contact information for the persons in charge and, if applicable, a reservation form for the facility you want to use.