Graduate Program in Ceramic and Materials Science and Engineering

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Research Facilities The program's research facilities include approximately 80,000 square feet of well-equipped laboratories, offices, information centers and conference rooms. Major pieces of analytical equipment include scanning electron microscopes, including a field emission scanning electron microscope, Topcon transmission electron microscope, ISA Raman microprobe; Perkin Elmer FTIR; du Pont Thermoanalyzer; Perkin Elmer induction coupled plasma (ICP) unit; state-of-the-art computer controlled powder X-ray diffraction equipment; Kratos X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Omnisorp 360 nitrogen sorption unit; apparatus for measurement of AC compleximpedance; high precision four-probe resistivity equipment, one operating from room temperature to 1.5 K, another from room temperature to 1273 K;  electron spin resonance spectrometer, and access to several state-of-the-art NMR spectrometers, including a Varian 200 MHz Multinuclear Solid State NMR device (Chemistry Department).