Dr. Jon McCarthy, from the College of Engineering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be offering a lecture titled “Shared Instrument Facilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”.
Date: February 27, 2014
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Place: Department of Nursing – Amphitheater
Abstract:
The College of Engineering at UW-Madison currently supports three major shared instrument facilities: the Materials Science Center (MSC), the Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics (WCAM), and the Soft Materials Laboratory (SML). These Facilities provide state-of-the-art user friendly instrumentation for members of the MRSEC and NSEC, the broader materials community in the college and from 15 other departments at the University, and surrounding industries. Currently, these facilities are housed in three buildings on the engineering campus, with more than $20 Million invested in the instrumentation. All of these facilities welcome non-university users on a recharge fee for service basis, and income exceeds $1.2 million per year. Over 600 students and 40 industrial scientists use the facilities each year. Equipment is supported by a staff of 14 fulltime instrument specialists, and 2.5 administrative staff. New instrument acquisition is primarily supported by grants, the college and the MRSEC and NSEC funding. In this talk, we will briefly review each laboratory, and then focus on examples of some of the newer additions to our instrument base, and their applications. Recent facility acquisitions include an FEI 300KV Field Emission (S)TEM equipped for Electron Tomography, and a Gatan Prism ELS, a Bruker™ D8 Discover Diffractometer, a Thermo™ K Alpha spectral imaging XPS, and a Zeiss™ AURIGA Laser FIB/SEM. Also in December, we reached a milestone with the opening of our new Biosafety Laboratory in the MSC. This is a BSL Level 2 facility for preparation of biological samples of several types; fixed and virtuous samples for use in our two cryo TEMs, and other “soft” samples (polymers, Solgels, plants) for the Bruker Catalyst BioScope and Zeiss META 510 Confocal LSM located in the same space.
Organized by: Wi(PR)2EM