Hibernia Electron Beam Facility Fees
MUN (unassisted) |
MUN (service) |
External Non-commercial |
External Commercial |
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EPMA |
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per hour per day Mapping rate |
$40/hr $400/day $15/hr |
$60/hr |
$60/hr $600/day $25/hr |
$200/hr $1600/day $200/hr |
SEM |
$40/hr |
$50/hr |
$100/hr |
Notes:
- Sample preparation including mounting and polishing to be provided by users
- Minimum usage of microprobe is a 4 hour block of time
- Daily rate applied to more than 8 hours continuous use, billed in 24 hour days
- If an EPMA session needs to be cancelled at least 24 hours notification is required
- Mapping rate applied to automated beam/stage mapping run on microprobe is done on evenings starting after 4 pm and over weekends
- The policy for reserving EPMA time will be two days at a time may be requested, with a maximum of 8 days per month, with requests handled by the EPMA-SEM user group who will meet every two weeks to discuss scheduling requests
- All users of SEM and EPMA will need to submit an on-line form indicating what kind of analyses are to be done (X-ray maps, quantitative WDS analyses, etc.),