What can ICAL do for you?
The Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory (RRID:SCR_026325) is a user-oriented facility that supports basic and applied research and education in all science, engineering, and STEM disciplines. ICAL specializes in complementary surface, interfacial, and bulk characterization of materials via high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy with a suite of tools.
ICAL is a proud partner of the Montana Nanotechnology Facility (MONT), which provides researchers from academia, industry, and government with access to cutting-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. You can read more about MONT here.
Services
A non-exhaustive list of our services. Please visit our instrumentation page for a full list of services.
- Field-emission scanning electron microscopes (FE-SEMs) equipped with fast X-ray and other detectors enabling users to perform rapid high-res imaging, quantitative analysis, elemental mapping, phase identification, crystal orientation analysis, and CL imaging
- Cryo-SEM capability State-of-the-art integrated
- Auger Nanoprobe equipped for quantitative surface interface, thin film and depth profile analysis
- X-ray diffraction (XRD) system for quantitative phase identification, Rietveld refinement, thin film reflectometry and thin film diffraction analysis
- High-resolution atomic force microscope equipped with a variety of analysis modes
- Portable X-ray fluorescence (p-XRF) spectrometer for rapid trace element analysis
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment of core facility services and instruments supported by Montana State University are required in publications. Learn more about how to acknowledge ICAL in your publication here.