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MRI Facilities

 

Nanofabrication User
MRI coordinates, administers, and supports several state-of-the-art research, fabrication, and characterization facilities at Penn State in addition to facilities available through the various colleges, departments, and materials research centers across campus. Many of the facilities below have full-time professional staff, and facilities are available to students, faculty, researchers, and to outside industry and government researchers. A few of the shared facilities below are one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art installations in this region of the US.

 

Advanced Coatings Lab

EB-PVD is a materials coating technology whereby a coating (metal, alloy, or ceramic) is melted, vaporized in a vacuum, and then deposited on a component or part requiring the surface properties inherent in the coating.

 

The Keck Smart Materials Integration Lab

The lab enables the integration of devices with electrical, mechanical and optical functions, and is able to characterize the resulting materials and devices.

 

Materials Characterization Lab (MCL)

MCL is a full-service analytical laboratory, which serves the research community at Penn State by offering a range of state-of-the-art analytical techniques staffed by full-time professionals.

 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

The NMR facility's primary mission is to make NMR spectroscopy available to students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty of the University for the purpose of answering scientific questions that arise in their research.

 

NNIN @ Penn State

The Penn State Nanofabrication site's focus is on materials and chemical technologies at the molecular scale with unique strengths that include surface chemistry, self-assembly, and the fabrication and processing of complex oxide materials.

 

The Nanofabrication Laboratory

Working in conjunction with NNIN@Penn State to provide world-class facilities and expertise to nano-researchers.

 

Materials Simulation Center (MSC)

A group of faculty and professional staff develop state-of-the-art atomic-scale materials modeling for design of high-performance alloys, evaluation of precursors for epitaxial growth, calculation of electronic and structural properties of nanoscale materials, and simulations for materials processing.

 

Mechanical Testing Laboratory (MTL)

MTL provides a well maintained, user testing facility which allows mechanical evaluation of materials on length scales from nanometers to meters.