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The Electron Microscopy Facility at Oregon State University (OSU) is a service facility providing faculty, staff, students, and Industrial collaborators access to electron microscopes and related instrumentation.

News, Events, & Announcements

November 14, 2023

The EM Facility will be hosting an open house from 12:30 - 3:30pm. Come and see our newly installed EDX system on our Helios SEM! Food will be available and cool images will be on display. Hope to see you there!

October 19, 2023

We welcome back students and faculty. We have two new major pieces of equipment: Bruker EDS on the Helios, and a new Critical point dryer for wet sample dehydration in an automated system ! Come see them in our open house on Tuesday, November 14th from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Enjoy some finger food and a Moche. See a Moche in the environmental SEM!

RELMS , our scheduling system is in full swing and it has really helped streamline our billing. As of April 1st, RELMS was the platform that will be used for booking Quanta 600, Quanta 3D, Titan and Helios.

At this time masks are not required

And as always, we strive to treat all nationalities and ethnic backgrounds with respect and equity.

Capabilities

In addition to an FEI Titan with ChemiSTEM technology, we have staff that are experts in sample preparation and imaging to help you solve your problem. A walk through of the OSU Electron Microscope Facility is available by clicking on the links above.

The facility is supported from the Office of Vice-President for Research and the facility's client colleges. The facility is located in Suite 145 in Linus Pauling Science Center.

Major Instrument Calendars

  • FEI TITAN 80-200 TEM/STEM with ChemiSTEM Technology
  • FEI QUANTA 3D dual beam SEM/FIB
  • FEI Helios NanoLab 650 high resolution SEM
  • FEI QUANTA 600FEG environmental SEM
  • two Utra Microtomes
  • a new RMC
  • a newly rebuilt Leica EM UC7 Cryo Ultra-Microtome

Extensive Materials Science Prep Tools

  • Allied High Tech semi-automatic-grinder-polisher
  • Pace vibratory polisher for EBSD sample prep

In addition we routinely perform potted cross section preparation for industrial clients looking to solve problems!