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Keck Lab
SEM Chamber

The Keck Lab is a multi-room teaching and research facility that contains analytical equipment that has been primarily acquired through NSF funding. There is a central teaching and sample preparation area surrounded by 6 rooms dedicated to a particular technology or preparation technique.

The major equipment includes a PANalytical X’Pert Pro MPD X-ray Diffractometer, and a JEOL 6610LV Scanning Electron Microscope with Oxford Instruments EDS and WDS microanalytical capabilities as well as backscatter and cathodoluminescence detectors.

A Bruker “Dimension Edge” Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and a Bruker M4 Tornado Micro-XRF, were purchased through a grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation.

Other spaces in the lab house sample preparation equipment (analytical and pan balances, high temperature ovens, Frantz magnetic separators, a Retsch MM200 Mixer-mill, and a Beckman Coulter Allegra X-22 Centrifuge), a gamma-ray spectrometer, and a Leica EM ACE200 coating system.