St. Cloud State University

Instrument Access Request Form

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Equipment Information

Instrument Requested

Scanning Electron Microscope
SEM/EDS
Atomic Force Microscope
Fluorescence Microscope

Project Duration

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Short term project (less than two weeks)
Long term, on-going project (greater than two weeks)

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Materials Requested

AFM Materials

Quantity Material Purpose Unit Cost/unit Guidelines for Quantity
Multi 75 tips for general purpose in air tapping mode imaging tip $24 Rough samples 1 tip/10 images; Smooth sample 1 tip/25 images; typical day on AFM is about 5-10 images
Biolever tips for in liquid imaging of biological samples and force measurements of biological samples tip $32 Clean sample 1 tip/10 images; Sticky sample 1 tip/3 images; Force measurements ~ 1000 taps; typical day working with samples in fluid is about 5-6 images
Electrilever tips for conductive measurements in contact mode imaging tip $30 Rough sample 1 tip/5 images; Smooth sample 1 tip/10 images; typical day working with conductive samples is about 5-10 images

SEM Materials

Quantity Material Purpose Unit Cost/unit Guidelines for Quantity
Stub Provides a surface to mount sample, can be placed in the sputter coater and then the SEM stub ~$1 Each sample generally required its own stub
Sputter Coating  AuPd - provides the conductive coating required for imaging samples that are inherintly non-conductive (biological, organic based samples) min. NA Samples generally require between 1.5 and 2 minutes sec. at 50% power
Liquid Nitrogen for cooling th x-ray EDS detector Duer $60 Will provide EDS usage for ~5 days, must get in this quantity because the detector needs to be cooled initially and then topped off daily

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Science and Engineering, College of
Phone: (320) 308-2192

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720 4th Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
(320) 308-0121
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