Supervisor/Coordinator: Douglas Yates
Contact: Douglas Yates
Phone: 215-898-2013
Email: dmyates@seas.upenn.edu
Oversight Committee Chair: Eric A. Stach, MSE
The Nanoscale Characterization Facility maintains a full-service electron microscopy facility equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for materials analysis. Structural, chemical and microstructural characterization of polymers, ceramics, composites, metals and alloys, electronic materials and devices, thin films, and coatings are conducted using scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and scanning transmission electron microscopes. A wide range of specimen preparation equipment is used including cryo-ultramicrotomy, cryo-plunge, jet electrolytic polishing, mechanical dimpling, tripod polishing, vacuum evaporation, sputter-coating and replication. In-house hardware and software are available for a wide range of image and spectrum processing tasks and for the calculation/simulation of electron-beam specimen interactions and microscope performance. Facility staff provide complete user training and assistance with research projects involving our instruments. The staff are also available for demand service in situations where training is not desired.
- Microscopy Instruments include:
- Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope – JEOL 7500F HRSEM
- Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope – FEI 600 Quanta FEG SEM
- Focused Ion Beam / Scanning Electron Microscope – TESCAN S8000X
- Aberration Corrected Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscope – JEOL NEOARM TEM/STEM
- JOEL F200 TEM/STEM
Facilities users must include the following text in the acknowledgment section of their publications:
“This work was carried out in part at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, which is supported by the NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Program under grant NNCI-2025608 and through the use of facilities supported by the University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) DMR-2309043.”