MCF Grand Opening Celebration

January 29, 2026

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

Roberts/Hamerschlag Halls

Join us for a full day of demos, tours, and a poster session with refreshments to conclude the day. 

9 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. Instrument Demos: (schedule subject to change - please check back for updates.)

  • REH 124 (MCF Classroom)
    9 - 9:45am (add to calendar)
    Sigma SEM In-Situ Stage: A heating experiment with SEM imaging
  • HH F206 Xray Lab
    10 -10:30am (add to calendar)
    Xenocs Xeuss 3.0: Small Angle X-ray Scattering Demonstration and Robot set-up
  • HH F210 Open Lab
    10:45 -11:15am (add to calendar)
    In-Situ Stage: Observe the physical set up of the in situ stage as it goes from flat to 70deg tilt for EBSD
  • HH F206 Xray Lab
    11 -11:30am (add to calendar)
    Laboratory Diffraction Contrast Tomography: Learn about Laboratory X-ray DCT and see the experimental set-up
  • REH 124 (MCF Classroom)
    11:15am –12:00pm (add to calendar)
    Sigma SEM In-Situ Stage: A tensile experiment with EBSD imaging
  • REH 124 (MCF Classroom)
    1:30-2:15pm (add to calendar)
    Zeiss: Optical-Electron Microscopy 2D Correlative Workflows using Sigma 
2:30 - 4 p.m. Poster Session* & Reception (Singleton Room, Roberts Hall)
4 - 4:30 p.m. Formal Remarks

*Graduate students are invited to share research that involves use of MCF Equipment. Register to share a poster.
Self-guided tours in Roberts and Hamerschlag Halls will be available from 9 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. If you are interested in a guided tour, please indicate on your Poster Session RSVP. 

Tour Highlights

Hamerschlag Hall

X-ray Lab

  • Xenocs Xeuss 3.0 (SAXS - See the biocube robot in action)
  • Zeiss CrystalCT (X-ray Computed Tomography and Diffraction Contrast Tomography - See a Lab-DCT run in progress)
  • Malvern Panalytical Empyrean (XRD - See a high temperature in-situ x-ray experiment in progress)

Hydra Lab

  • Thermofisher Helios 5 Hydra UX (Plasma Focused Ion Beam -See a 3-D serial section running collecting EBSD patterns with the EDAX velocity ultra camera) 

Sigma Lab

  • Zeiss Sigma 560 VP (In-situ SEM - See the in situ stage in action. The system will collect EBSD patterns with the Oxford Symmetry S3 camera while the Deben stage applies an increasing load. All controlled by proprietary, integrated software from Zeiss.) 

Roberts Engineering Hall

Optical Lab     

  • Horiba LabRAM Soleil (Raman mapping)
  • Zeiss ZenConnect (Guests are invited to explore a correlative dataset using Zeiss ZenConnect software.)

Scanning Electron Microscopy

  • Tescan Mira 3 (ImageSnapper – automated image acquisition and stitching)

TEMS

  • Thermofisher Themis (HR STEM - see atomic level resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy)
  • Thermofisher Tecnai F20 (TEM)

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