Charges: $10/sample - full run, External users $50/sample
(Future charges subject to change)
Time will be billed in 15 minute increments
Located in room SNR 2233.
Below the specifications is the calendar to schedule appointments, and below that is the calendar showing all scheduled reservations:
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The PANalytical Empyrean II Powder XRD system is a versatile instrument capable of analyzing various sample types including powders, thin films, nanomaterials, and solid objects. It excels in providing high-accuracy data for phase identification, quantification, and structural analysis, including measurements of crystallographic and compositional information.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Sample Types:
Powders: The Empyrean is well-suited for analyzing powdered materials, offering high accuracy and data quality.
Thin Films: It can handle thin film samples, providing information about their structure and properties.
Nanomaterials: The system can characterize nanomaterials, giving insights into their crystalline structure and behavior.
Solid Objects: The Empyrean can analyze solid objects, including their internal structure and composition, with capabilities for microdiffraction and even computed tomography (CT) on some solid objects.
Capabilities:
Phase Identification: Identifies different crystalline phases present in a sample.
Phase Quantification: Determines the relative amounts of each phase.
Crystallographic Analysis: Provides detailed information about crystal structure, including unit cell parameters and lattice strain.
Compositional Analysis: Reveals the chemical composition of the sample.
Texture Analysis: Determines the preferred orientation of crystals in a sample.
Stress Measurement: Measures internal stresses within materials.
In-situ Analysis: Can perform measurements under varying temperature, atmosphere, and other conditions to study phase changes and other phenomena as they occur.
Small and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS): Enables the study of both small and wide-angle scattering, providing information on both long-range and short-range order in materials.
Computed Tomography (CT): Unique capability for three-dimensional imaging of the internal structure of solid objects.