Facilities
Modern materials science and engineering requires sophisticated and modern equipment. The Shared Experimental Facilities (SEFs) are designed to address equipment needs too large to be satisfied by individual researchers. The Center for Materials Science and Engineering operates four SEFs on the MIT campus for the analysis and processing of materials. These facilities include:
- Materials Analysis SEF (Surface, Thermal, and Optical)
- Electron Microscopy SEF
- Crystal Growth SEF
- X-ray Diffraction SEF
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary research center at MIT that receives core funding from the National Science Foundation. These facilities are available for use by members of the MIT research community and other academic institutions. Use of the facilities is also permitted, consistent with NSF policy (see NSF Important Notice 122*), to qualified research personnel from profit and nonprofit organizations, provided that comparable services are not available on a commercial basis in the private sector.
Read more about our Shared Experimental Facilities in our 2008 annual report (PDF)
Watch overview presentations on the CMSE Shared Facilities (.MOV files):
- Overview of the Shared Experimental Facilities
- Intro to Crystal Facility
- Intro to Surface Analysis
- Intro to Optical & Thermal Analysis
- Intro to the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
- Intro to Energy-Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis in the TEM
- Intro to the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Intro to X-ray Diffraction
