Nano-Characterization
The focus in this section is on commercial*
and university/institute core facility** labs with a formal mandate to
collaborate with users from across the region in the characterization
of nanoscale structures and processes, as well as labs with special
characterization resources willing to make them available to
researchers in the region when they can fit it in. The distinction
between facilities with and without asterisks may be worth further
discussion in days ahead.
Also please suggest other appropriate additions, and corrections.
Note: A list of characterization resources organized by
application area, rather than institution, will be linked
here. A list ordered instead by instrument type will
be linked here.
- Boeing - Saint Louis
- Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center - Saint Louis
- Integrated
Microscopy Facility
- Confocal/multiphoton fluorescence/correlation microscopy
- Cryo/energy-loss-filtered transmission electron microscopy
- Multi-dimensional digital image-analysis
- Global
Environmental Laboratories* - Saint Louis
- e.g. mold/bioaerosols, culture analysis, environmental lead & asbestos
- Industrial
Testing Laboratories* - Saint Louis
- MEMC Electronic Materials - O'Fallon
- Missouri University - Columbia
- Electron
Microscopy Core**
- Materials and biological specimen preparation
- Scanning and transmission electron microscopy
- Immunoelectron microscopy
- X-ray analysis, digital imaging and analysis, protocol development, etc.
- Midwest
Research Institute - Services - Kansas City
- e.g. trace-level PCR analysis, parts per quadrillion analytical chemistry
- Monsanto - Saint Louis
- Saint Louis City Crime Lab (one of nine in Missouri) - Saint Louis
- e.g. photo, chemistry, biology, firearm and toolmark analysis
- Saint Louis University - Saint Louis
- Southwest Missouri State University - Springfield
- University of Missouri - Kansas City
- University of Missouri - Rolla
- University of Missouri - Saint Louis
- Mass Spectrometry Facility**
- High-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility**
- Optical Spectroscopy Enhancement Project
- Scanned
Tip and Electron Image Lab**
- Sub-2A point-resolution transmission electron microscopy
- 10nm oxide intrusions into IC-silicon surfaces at room-temperature
- Single-walled carbon nano-cones in red-giant starsmoke
- Digital-darkfield recognition of icosahedral-twinning in metal nano-clusters
- Surface steps on ferrofluid nano-magnetite for non-invasive aneurism repair
- Digital-darkfield tracks of columnar nucleation in epitaxial Cu2O/Si
- Mapping projected picometer strains in Si/Si-Ge & GaInN/Al2O3
- Internal closures in multiwall carbon & BN nanotubes
- Periodic ordering between hexagonal & cubic in CdS nano-belts
- Imaging periodic arrays of icosahedra in TiMn quasicrystal approximates
- Unit cell structure of interstellar diamond & SiC down <110>
- Unit cell structure of PVO catalysts for maleic anhydride
- Air-based atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy
- Depth-distribution geochronology of alpha-recoil track pits in etched mica
- Dimer-row steps on <001> Si as "quantitative graph paper" for SPM studies
- STM/AFM lateral-displacement maps of tip-surface shear
- Use of nuclear-track etch pits to characterize SPM tip geometry
- Conventional scanning electron microscopy
- Electron beam-induced current search for threading dislocations in Si/Si-Ge
- Filter-paper electron-lens for a fisheye's view of the specimen chamber
- X-ray
Diffraction Laboratory**
- Washington University - Saint Louis
- Aerosol
and Air-Quality Research Laboratory
- Laser light-scattering measurement of particles in liquids
- Biology Microscope Facility
- The Joint Science and Engineering
Center
for Materials Innovation
- Earth and Planetary
Sciences Chemical
& Physical Analysis
- Electron microprobe
- Inductively-coupled plasma mass-spectrometry
- Instrumental neutron activation analysis
- Raman and IR spectroscopy
- X-ray fluorescence
- Hayes Group
- optically-enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance
- Heuser
Lab in Cell Biology (School of Medicine)
- Deep-etch electron microscopy of adsorbed macromolecules
- Quick-freeze electron microscopy of cellular processes
- Time-lapse confocal light microscopy
- Materials
Physics Laboratory
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Differential thermal analysis
- Resistivity measurements (low and high temperature)
- Transmission electron microscope
- Scanning electron microscope with X-ray energy mapping
- X-ray diffraction analysis
- McDonnell
Center for Space Sciences
- Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with microscope
- NanoSIMS
imaging secondary ion mass spectrometry
- Noble gas mass spectrometry
- Optical microscope lab for nuclear track studies
Note: This page
(
http://newton.umsl.edu/~run/mona/characterization.html)
is in it's earliest stages of development. Suggestions for
existing and new entries invited, as well as on better ways to
structure this resource. Although there are many
contributors, the person responsible for errors is P. Fraundorf.
This site is hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy (and
Center for Molecular Electronics) at UM-StLouis.