UoA Facilities

The University of Alberta has many facilities for materials characterization, and microstructural analysis. The technicians for each of these instruments are listed below under contacts. If you wish to request time for using these instruments please contact the respective technician, and they will be glad to help you out.

Learn more about any of these characterization methods on the ASM Handbooks Online

• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department
  
  Room: CME 174
  Contacts: Gayle Hatchard email: ghatchard@ualberta.ca
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) - Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
  
  Room: ESB 2-17
  Contacts: George Braybrook email: george.braybrook@ualberta.ca
  Contacts: De-Ann Rollings email: rollings@ualberta.ca
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) - Chemical and Materials Engineering Department
  
  Room: CME 310
  Contacts: Shiraz Merali email: shiraz.merali@ualberta.ca
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) - Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
  
  Room: ESB 1-13
  Contacts: Diane Caird email: Diane.caird@ualberta.ca
• Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA) - Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
  
  Room: ESB B-10
  Contacts: Sergei Matveev email: smatveev@ualberta.ca
• Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) - Alberta Centre for Surface Engineering and Science
  
  Room: CCIS L2-356
  Contacts: Shihong Xu email: shihongx@ualberta.ca