available with AV Macintosh, scanner, and dye-sublimation printer capable of photographic quality prints.
This facility is equipped for the metallographic preparation of specimens by producing strain-free surfaces usually examined by optical microscopy. Other applications of mechanically polished specimens involve producing strain-fee (surface) tensile specimens, optically flat electrodes, and flat substrates for subsequent thin-film depositions. Both transmitted light and reflected light metallographs are available for photomicrography and microstructural characterizations. The Lab Manager is available for consultation and training.
available with AV Macintosh, scanner, and dye-sublimation printer capable of photographic quality prints.
Capable of preparing up to eight specimens simultaneously with reproducible parameters of platen speed, pressure, and diamond concentrations.
available with sizes from1.0 to 0.05 micrometer
Capability to load from 10 grams to 1000 grams with either Knoop or Vickers indentors
Selected microscopes have brightfield and darkfield modes, and polarized light. 4" X 5" or 35mm camera formats are available for taking photomicrograph as well as digital image capture.
for polishing are available with diamond paste sizes ranging from 30 to 0.1 micrometer
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