Shared Facilities

Facility Director: Prof. Stephen J. Eyles (eyles@polysci.umass.edu)
The Mass Spectrometry Facility was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between the Departments of Polymer Science & Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Over the years the facility has been augmented significantly by contributions from MRSEC, external funding agencies (NSF, NIH), and equipment donations by […]

High resolution field emission cold cathode scanning electron microscope with semi-in-lens detector configuration achieving resolution down to 2 nm. It is equipped with BE (backscattered) detector and thin window energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) from Princeton Gamma-Tech for compositional analysis, imaging and mapping. Fully digital image acquisition.