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Auger Lab
1. Lab Description and Capabilities
- PHI 710 Scanning Auger Nanoprobe
2. Deliverables
- Surface analysis of metal, metal oxide, and coating-metal interfaces
- Imaging analysis of how corrosion proceeds from a pinhole or a scratch
- Chemical mapping of wear in alloys, multilayers, and in tribological applications
- Analysis of chemical bonding between organic and metal surfaces
- High resolution chemical mapping of metal and metal oxide surfaces (8 nm spatial resolution)
- Chemical mapping as a function of depth (5-100 nm)
- SEM imaging that provides topographical and chemical information
3. Major Equipment and Specific Minor Equipment
- UHV test chamber with ports to accommodate FIB, EDS, EBSD, and EBS
- Schottky field emission electron gun with high spatial resolution and large energy range (1-25keV)
- High sensitivity, high contrast scintillation detector for secondary electron imaging
- 5 kV floating column argon ion for surface cleaning, charge neutralization, and Auger compositional depth profiling and high or low impact energies
- Sample parking and high impact fracture with storage for up to 6 specimen in vacuum
- Digital camera capturing optical images of the sample holder in the introduction chamber
- Fully motorized, computer driven five axis precision specimen stage for rapid, accurate, and easy positioning
- 60 mm specimen introduction and magnetically coupled transfer system
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