The XPS is operational and is available for use. Please email Dr. Timothy Leftwich (at trleftwi@mtu.edu) if you are interested in XPS (or Auger) analysis.
Research Scientist Erico T. F. Freitas has joined ACMAL and Materials Science and Engineering. He will manage the FEI 200kV Titan Themis STEM in ACMAL’s Electron Optics Facility. Freitas has experience in nanostructured materials characterization, with specialties in TEM, STEM, EELS, EFTEM, EDX, and electron diffraction.
Freitas worked previously in the multiuser electron microscopy facility managing the TEM at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
ACMAL will have limited hours over the upcoming holiday break.
The university will be closed on Dec 23 through Jan 1. The building will be locked on those days. Unrestricted users will have unlimited access to the building and labs. Restricted users have access during the other days. We ask that newly trained users make appointments during the period so someone is near in case there are troubles.
Dr. Ed Laitila and Liz Miller will be out the entire 2 week period. Dr. Tim Leftwich, Josh King, Kyle Hrubecky, and Aleister Kerr will be available by appointment.
If there are problems contact us. Our contact information is:
Liz: 906-370-6538
Ed: 906-369-2041
Aleister: 520-576-3557
Josh: 404-808-2803
Tim: trleftwi@mtu.edu
Happy Holidays,
Elizabeth Miller
2:21 p.m. The instruments are back online.
1:07 p.m. There was a brief power outage and the instruments are down until I can get them back online. Hopefully it will only take an hour or so.
The Vice President for Research Office (VPR) has awarded Century II Campaign Endowed Equipment Fund (C2E2) awards at the recommendation of the C2E2 Committee.
Among the recipients is Elizabeth Miller (MSE) for Purchase of a Large Window Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy Detector for the ACMAL Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope.
Nov. 23, 6:13 p.m.: The filament on the ESEM is burned out. Until it is replaced the ESEM is not available.
Nov. 24, 10:50 a.m.: The filament has been replaced and the ESEM is back online. I’ll be off for the rest of the week.
The ESEM repairs have been completed and the instrument is available for use. Thank you for your patience during the extended down time. Unfortunately the repairs were more extensive than we initially expected.
The ESEM repairs are moving forward. IT has been troubleshooting a software issue and a technician from Thermo Fisher will be onsite next week.
The repairs on the ESEM are still ongoing. We are continuing to work with Thermo Fisher on this issue.
Last week, the EDS system on the FESEM was sent out for repairs. It will likely be 3-4 weeks before the system is back online.
The FESEM is still available for imaging.