EPMA & SEM facilities, World Wide
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- This page of other resources (including easy access to
the newsgroup, sci.techniques.microscopy)
will remain under constant construction. If you
would like to add your address to our lists of WWW sites,
email addresses or EM manufacturers & EM resources,
societies and on-line journals,
or make suggestions, then contact epmalab@darkwing.uoregon.edu.
- One of these days I'm going to alphabetize the list ...
Resources for microscopy on the World Wide Web
- Microscopes
and Microscopy. Although there's plenty of
material relating to microscopy in many nooks and
crannies around the Internet, there doesn't seem to be
any one place to act as a Home page for microscopists.
Chris Jefferies is trying to keep up ...
- The Microscopy
Vendors Database can be found at Kaker.Com.
As a private company, based in town Ravne,
Slovenia, we have over 15 years experience in
microanalysis and optical and scanning electron
microscopy. Henrik Kaker spends most of his time
writing software for Internet and Intranet applications
for microscopy and microanalysis.
- MME
stands for Microscopy/Microscopy Education, and is
dedicated to helping you build both a strong skills base
and a clear understanding of how your microscope works.
- Electron
Microscopy Yellow Pages. The purpose of this
service is to provide an extensive collection of links
related to electron microscopy inside the World Wide Web.
It is maintained by Pierre-Henri Jouneau at the Center
for Electron Microscopy of the "Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne", in Switzerland.
Electron microbeam facilities on the World Wide Web
- Argonne National
Laboratories. This WWW server can provides you
with access to up-to-date information about
State-of-the-Art Microscopy and Microanalysis programs in
the AAEM/TPM effort of the ANL Materials Science Division
as well as general information about On-Line
information services which are administered for Local,
National and International Microscopy/Microanalysis
Societies, including the MSA Microscopy Software
Library, ListServer,
and Ask
a Microscopist which is a really cool
interface to microscience for students. This information
is provided courtesy of friendly Nestor
Zaluzec (seen here in a rare instance without his
hat! ... on his head anyway ...).
- The University of Arizona College of
Pharmacy has posted a number of wwwpages which
are excellent references to other wwwsites in the fields
of electron microscopy and digital imaging. Contact Douglas Cromey
- American
Museum of Natural History. The electron
microprobe facility at AMNH houses a 5-spectrometer
Cameca SX-100 that was installed in July 1996. The
laboratory is a joint facility shared between the museum
and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory.
- UCMP
Environmental SEM Laboratory is located in the
Valley Life Sciences Building at the University of
California at Berkeley. Its ElectroScan Model E3 ESEM is
available for research by scientists within and outside
the University of California at Berkeley. You should also
visit UCB's Museum
of Paleontology
- Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory (LBL) is a national laboratory managed
by the University of California for the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
- California
State University at Hayward. The Microscope and
Graphic Imaging Center (MAGIC) is a model distributed
learning resource for scientific equipment. The Center
provides both local and remote access to optical and
electron microscopes to students and faculty on the
Hayward campus, in the CSU system, and other educational
institutions including local community colleges.
- University
of California at Berkeley. The Electron
Microprobe and Scanning Electron Lab at Berkeley is a
center for development of techniques of electron
microscopy and microanalysis
- Colorado
State Electron Microscopy/Imaging Center. A well
equipped and staffed facility that provides a campus-wide
resource dedicated to teaching, research, and clinical
studies. The equipment available in the Center provides a
focal point for researchers throughout the academic
community to investigate problems in the biological and
physical sciences.
- CSIRO
Minerals. We strive to find the best
solutions for minerals problems in Australia's best
interests. The EM facility includes two
Microprobes (JEOL 8900R & CAMECA Camebax) as well as
two SEMs. The Hitachi S-5000 is online and can be
remotely viewed and controlled via a www interface.
- Applied
Earth Sciences at the Delft University of
Technology. J.H.L.Voncken
supervises a JEOL 8800M electron probe microanalyzer and
the analyses and characterisation of primary and
secondary raw materials (rocks, soils,minerals, metals,
glass, etc...)..
- University
of Hawaii, School of Ocean & Earth Science &
Technology (SOEST) Electron Microprobe Lab. The
SOEST Microprobe Lab WWW Page contains information about
facility resources, personnel, and research projects.
- University
of Hawaii at Manoa, Biological Electron Microscope
Facility. Welcome to MicroAngela
... home of SEMantics and birthplace of the Invisible
Empire. This is a highly recommended wwwsite
for bug enthusiasts of all ages ... Tina M. (Weatherby)
Carvalho has done some very interesting things with SEM
images ...
- Metal
Ravne d.o.o.. This SEM-EDS Laboratory was
establish in the 1982 and the main focus of laboratory is
industrial research and analysis of the steel samples ...
This is an excellent international wwwsite!
- The Institute
of Meteoritics and Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences at the University of New Mexico
maintains a fully equipped Electron Microbeam (EM) Lab
that includes a JEOL 733 Electron Microprobe (EMP) and
JEOL 5800LV Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope
(LVSEM).
- The
University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis
Laboratory. Since this facility's establishment
in 1978, the University of Michigan has continued its
commitment to provide and maintain state-of-the-art
equipment for the microstructural and microchemical study
of materials. EMAL facilities are based around six
electron microscopes (four Transmission Electron
Microscopes (TEMs) and two Scanning Electron Microscopes
(SEMs), an Electron MicroProbe Analyzer (EMPA), an Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM) and an X-ray Photoelectron
Spectroscopy System (XPS). Contact John Mansfield.
- Central
Michigan University, Department of Geology
Our WWW pages focus on the fully automated, remotely
accessible ARL-SEMQ microprobe that is maintained by the
CMU Department of Geology. Our lab is geared towards
providing EMPA training and access to undergraduate
geology students and to regional researchers.
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- Northern
Arizona University Electron Microprobe Laboratory
is equipped with a Cameca MBX microprobe. The
wwwpage has a link to extensive on-line microprobe class
notes. James
H. Wittke is the facility's supervisor.
- The
University of Oklahoma School of Geology and Geophysics
has been a leader in the Earth Sciences since 1900. Today
the School offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate
degrees with historical strengths in petroleum geology,
and a growing focus on environmental concerns.
- Institute
of Electron Optics, University of Oulu, Finland. Welcome
to Microworld, a centralized state-of-the-art
facility for the microscopic scale analysis of the
structure, morphology, chemistry and crystallography of
materials.
- The McCrone Group
is an Illinois corporation dedicated to teaching, service
work and research in applied microscopy. The Institute is
fully equipped with more than 100 polarized light and
other light microscopes, as well as scanning and
transmission electron microscopes, FTIR microscopes, hot
and cold stages, and all of the accessories, reagents,
and library resources necessary for critical microscopy.
- Croneis
Laboratory. Electron Microprobe and X-ray Analysis.
The Rice University Department of Geology and Geophysics
Electron Microprobe and x-ray facilities now has a World
Wide Web Page for your viewing enjoyment.
- NanoWorld.
The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at the
University of Queensland (Australia) is an
interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated
to an understanding of the structure and composition of
all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and
macromolecular scales .
- NIST. The
National Institute of Standards and Technology was
established by Congress "to assist industry in the
development of technology ... needed to improve product
quality, to modernize manufacturing processes, to ensure
product reliability ... and to facilitate rapid
commercialization ... of products based on new scientific
discoveries."
- The Center for
Microanalysis of Materials at the University of Illinois
in Urbana-Champaign. Our function is to provide
microcharacterization services to the researchers in the
MRL, other researchers on the Urbana-Champaign campus and
elsewhere.
- Materials Research
Laboratories. To help ensure the integrity of
materials, many leading organizations rely on MRL to
provide a wide range of analytical services for their
R&D efforts and to study and solve their materials
related problems.
- Memorial
University of Newfoundland Centre for Earth
Resources Research. The electron microprobe facility at
Memorial University is centred around a 2013 JEOL 8530
instrument.
- Mississippi
State's Entomology Electron Microscope Center.
The EMC is a facility serving the entire university, and
is operated by the Mississippi State University Office of
Research and College of Veterinary Medicine. The EMC is
in the Clay Lyle Building on the Mississippi State campus
and is fully equipped for conventional transmission and
scanning electron microscopy.
- The
Nanoscale Physics Group. We look at really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really small things.
- Rensselaer's
Polytechnic Institute. Our fully-automated
JEOL-733 electron microprobe in the Department of Earth
and Environmental Sciences is available for chemical
microanalysis of geological, metallurgical, and other
materials, to analysts and researchers on and off the
Rensselaer campus. Contact David
A. Wark for more infromation.
- Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Consortium. SENCR-MIC is a joint venture by Fayetteville State University and UNC Pembroke which is hosted at the FSU campus. The facilities include a JEOL JXA-8530F field emission microprobe and a JEOL JSM-6510LV variable vacuum SEM for imaging.
- University
of Tasmania Central Science Laboratory, whose
Cameca SX100 is used by geologists and others interested
in the composition and microstructure of materials. It
provides microanalyses of materials and detects all
elements heavier than boron.
- University
of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics. We
are in the process of developing a much more
comprehensive WWW page for the Utah electron microprobe.
In the meantime, if you want more information about the
facility such as analytical capabilities, detection
limits, sample requirements and preparation, access,
rates, or anything else, please send an e-mail request to
Bill Nash.
- University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Welcome to the University
of Wisconsin at Madison's Electron Microprobe Lab. Our
wwwsite can provide you with some basic information about
electron microprobe analysis (EMPA). Fell free to contact
John Fournelle.
- The
Natural History Museum of London, UK. The
electron microscopy and mineral analysis division of the
Natural History Museum provides comprehensive analytical
and imaging facilities to Museum staff, students and
scientific visitors.
- Centre
Interdépartemental de Microscopie Electronique.
CIME, the central facility and research center in
electron microscopy at the "Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne".
- FCAEM - Florida
Center for Analytical Electron Microscopy.
FCAEM, the electron microprobe at Florida Internaltional
University.
- Electron
Microprobe Laboratory at the University of Minnesota.
The Geology & Geophysics electron microprobe in Twin
Cities.
Electron probe facilities on the Internet
- CSIRO, Exploration and Mining
Electron Beam Laboratory
P.O. Wembley WA 6011, AUSTRALIA
61 9 387 0378
61 9 387 6046 (FAX)
Bruce supervises a EPMA facility which houses a
Cameca SX-50. Considerable experience is available here
regarding trace element analysis, programming and
distributable software. Contact via email Bruce Robinson
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