Primary Contacts:

David M Tanenbaum
E-mail: dtanenbaum@pomona.edu
Telephone: (909) 621-8722
Fax: (909) 621-8463

David Haley
E-mail: david.haley@pomona.edu
Office: Millikan Laboratory, Room 113
Telephone: (909) 621-8721
Fax: (909) 621-8463

Other Contacts
Charles J. Taylor
E-mail: ctaylor@pomona.edu
Office: Seaver Chemistry Laboratory, Room 116
Telephone: (909) 607-4169
Fax: (909) 607-7726

FE-SEM facility flyer

Below is a link for our online application for training  The typical training session is 3 hours, some direct instruction on our calibration samples, some video instruction, and then some time spent on your samples. You should plan to come with a sample and describe that sample for us before the training. In order to be used in the SEM, the sample must be clean and dry. We have a way to pre pump the sample overnight if necessary, as well as a sputter coater if your sample is completely insulating and you want to make imaging easier. (I almost never do this, but it greatly reduces the complexity of imaging some samples.) You should discuss with your advisor what conditions he or she thinks are best for your samples.

For purposes of the training only 2 people can really become trained users at any one training session. Otherwise, no one gets enough time at the controls to get a feel for the instrument. Of course this varies if some people have previous SEM experience and are simply learning our instrument in relation to one they already understand. Basic training will cover imaging only, but elemental analysis or lithography are possible with future training sessions for advanced users.

I've attached a web link to a nice primer on SEM from another company that you might find useful as reading material. http://www.jeolusa.com/sem/docs/index.html

Finally, let me be clear that we have no monetary charges for local users at this time, but we do require all users to submit a report to us sharing some of their best images along with a description of how they were used in support of the research project. This helps us to enable future funding. We also will shut out users who do not conform to our rules and regulations. This is a necessity for us to maintain low overhead and trouble free operation. .

If you want to sign up for training, please follow the link below and provide the necessary information:

http://www.astro.pomona.edu/physics/semrequest.php