Hourly Rates

Rates as of March 5, 2021. Lab reservations have a 15-minute minimum. These rates are subject to change.

Instrument	Internal User Rate	After Hours Rate*	External User Rate (Federally funded)	External User Rate (Industry and other)
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Hitachi Tabletop TM3030 Plus tabletop SEM	$31.31	$8.57	$47.75	$62.63
Hitachi S-3000N SEM	$33.25	$7.77	$50.71	$66.50
X-ray Diffractometry (XRD)
Philips PANalytical X-Pert XRD	$40.90	$12.16	$62.37	$81.80
Bruker D2 Phaser XRD	$27.83	$4.63	$42.43	$55.65
Thermal Analysis (DSC/TGA)
NETZSCH 3500 Sirius DSC	$32.81	$11.62	$50.03	$65.62
TA Instruments Discovery SDT 650 DSC/TGA	$17.49	$12.03	$26.67	$34.98
Physical properties testing
Instron 5969 Mechanical tester	$36.71	$10.87	$55.98	$73.41
Anter Corporation workhorse IB Dilatometer	$7.38	$0.83	$11.25	$14.76
Micromeritics 3Flex surface area and pore analyzer	$7.60	$2.36	$11.59	$15.20
Beckman Coulter LS230 Particle Size Analyzer	$25.83	$4.00	$39.39	$51.65
Anton Paar Ultrapyc 5000	$36.87	$4.12	$56.22	$73.73
Spectrophotometry
Perkin Elmer Lambda 950 UV-Vis-NIR	$31.74	$8.54	$48.40	$63.47
Varian 3100 Excalibur FT-IR	$27.33	$4.59	$41.68	$54.66
Other
Technician Assistance	$24.04	Not Available	$36.66	$48.08
Metallographic prep equipment (mounting press, polisher)	$27.17	Not Available	$41.44	$54.35

* After-hours availability

After-hours rates are applicable to any machine or test running after closing at 5:00 pm.

All users are authorized to use overnight access for machines that have an autosampler (DSC, TGA) or that can run long scans (XRD, 3Flex) as long as their scan is started at least 30 minutes before closing on a day that the lab is open. Off-campus users' off-campus rates will be double what is posted above.

All other machines (SEM, Spectrophotometers, etc.) can only be reserved for overnight use by trained, on-campus individuals.

More information can be found on our policies page.