Various equipment for TEM and SEM specimen preparation, including slow-speed diamond/wire saw; ultrasonic/rotation disc cutter; dimpling grinder; metallurgical polishing wheel; ion-polishing PIPS/PIPS II; plasma nanoclean; Au/C sputter coater. Specimen preparation devices include:
- Allied multiprep lapping and grinding machine
- Branson ultrasonic cleaner 2200
- Buehler Isomet slow speed saw
- Cressington Au sputter coater
- Cressington Carbon coater
- Fischione ultrasonic disc cutter
- Fischione plasma nanoclean
- Gatan PIPS 691
- Gatan PIPS II 695
- Gatan dimple grinder 656
- Intek optical microscope
- Leica stereo microscope ZOOM 2000
- SBT lapping and polishing machine 910
- SBT rotation cutter 360
- VCR Group Inc. Dimpler D500i