Shared Facilities

Shared Facilities

A series of state of the art centralized facilities for Materials Research are located within the department and across campus. The following equipment and technologies are available for use in Materials Science Research.

Singh Center for Nanotechnology

The Singh Center is centered around four major research facilities, all featuring state-of-the-art equipment for nanoscale characterization, measurement, and fabrication: the Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility, the Nanoscale Characterization Facility, the Scanning and Local Probe Facility, and the Material Property Measurement Facility.

• Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility
• Nanoscale Characterization Facility
• Scanning and Local Probe Facility
• Material Property Measurement Facility

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)

The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, the LRSM, is the center for materials research at the University of Pennsylvania. It was established in 1960 as one of the first Materials Research Laboratories to be funded by the forerunner of DARPA. In 1972 funding was taken over by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research, NSF-DMR under the aegis of the MRL program. In 1996, the core of the materials research program at the LRSM was supported as a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC, funded by an NSF-DMR.

• Optical Imaging and Micromanipulation
• Dual Source and Environmental X-ray Scattering
• Powder and High-Resolution XRD Facility

MSE Departmental Laboratory

Additional Campus Resources:

Chemistry Department:

• Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction
• NMR Facility