All our operations are now in CCIS-1 building. Please go to Contact Us page for directions and maps. Want to know how ACSES performed in 2010/11? Click here to see the plots from our report. ACSES board approved following changes of service fees effective November 1, 2011: set academic rates for AFM self-service at $20/hour, non-academic rates for UHV instruments at $200/hour. Our Newsletter # 2 is now available. Please click here to download it in pdf format. Previous newsletter is available for download through this link. In accordance with the ACSES board recommendations of June, 2005, reduced fees are available to new faculty members during first 6 months of their appointment. Please click here to print the application form. Two more AFMs and nanoindentor are now moved to our room from INRF. Please go to the INRF website www.inrf.ualberta.ca to book these instruments. We have purchased a site licence for CASA XPS sotware, you are free to borrow the disk or the user code to install it on your campus PC. The official opening of ACSES took place on February 1st, 2005. Short reports were shown on CTV, CBC and Global TV channels. Please click here to see some pictures of the event and the article in the Univ. of Alberta Express News. Click here to see how the opening was covered in "Edmonton Journal". We have also a copy of the CTV clip. We have purchased a site licence of the SDP v.4.0 program for XPS data processing with 5 volumes of database from XPS International. Since the program owner discontinued to provide new licence keys, it can only be used in CCIS Rm. L2-356. For more news on the instruments and sample data please see our latest newsletter or browse through the list of the older ones.