Labs and Facilities
Transmission Electron Microscopy
JEOL JEM-2100 LaB6 Transmission Electron Microscope with digital imaging, elemental X-ray microanalysis (XEDS), electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), dark-filed imaging, and micro-beam electron diffraction capabilities.
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Zeiss Supra35 variable pressure SEM with a field emission source, and EDAX X-ray fluorescence detector, and an HKL electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector.
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) laboratory with a Digital Instruments NanoScope MultiMode scanning probe microscope with STM and AFM (tapping mode, Phase Imaging, MFM, etc.).
X-Ray Diffraction
Mineral Synthesis Laboratory
The lab is equipped with facilities for the synthesis of ambient to high temperature and ambient to moderate pressure minerals; equipment includes five programmable ovens (ambient to 300 C) and furnaces (ambients to 1400 C), numerous Teflon-line Parr bombs, and sample preparation equipment. We have also built a chemostat for constant addition (steady state) aqueous crystal growth experiments.
HPLC and DCP Chemical Analysis

Cathodoluminescence and Optical Microscopy
Several optical mineralogy and petrology laboratories with research petrographic microscopes, a Nuclide Cathodoluminoscope with a cooled CCD digital camera, and reflected light Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy.
Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry
2 Isotope geochemistry laboratories with a Nuclide 12-inch thermal ionization mass spectrometer and a Triton multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometer.
Selected University Multi-User Research and Support Facilities
Electron Microscopy Facility:
http://www.emf.muohio.edu/index.html
Center for Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics:http://www.cas.muohio.edu/cbfgperspectives.html
Miami University Instrumentation Laboratory:http://www.instrumentationlab.muohio.edu