Instrument and operator time at the AMAC is available on a cost basis to both the academic research community and to industry. For scheduling instrument time or training sessions, please contact the appropriate Instrument Specialist, the AMAC Manager, or use the booking system. The facility prime time is from 8 AM to 6 PM on weekdays. All other hours, including weekends and holidays, are considered non-prime time. Only qualified users are permitted access to AMAC during non-prime time. Please contact the AMAC Director to inquire about eligibility and to apply for non-prime time access to AMAC instruments. Instrument reservations must be made through the online scheduling system (lsu.fbs.io) and will be billed based on actual usage time at the rates listed above for all sessions that meet or exceed the reserved duration. For all “no-show” reservations or those with partial usage, 80% of the reserved time or the actual time used—whichever is greater—will be billed. Cancellations must be made at least 4 hours in advance to avoid charges. The minimum billing for instrumentation usage is 0.5 hour, based on the rates listed above. Instruments include: ThermoFisher Spectra300 STEM; JEOL JEM1400 120kV TEM (Regular TEM and cryo-TEM); JEOL JXA8230 EP; FEI Quanta 3D FEG Ga FIB/SEM (Ion source charged as consumable); Helio G5 Xe PFIB/SEM (Ion source charged as consumable); ScientaOmicron ESCA 2SR XPS; Panalytical XRD (for all stages); Renishaw Raman Microscope, Leica SP8 Confocal Microscope, Olympus SpinSR10 Spinning Disk Confocal, Zeiss Light Sheet 7; Leica DM6B Microscope, Leica Thunder Stereomicroscope, AmScope Metallurgical Microscope; Fischione NanoMill 1040; Dell or Titan Workstation I; Anton Paar Litesizer500, Anton Paar PSA1090LD; ThermoFisher HeliScan X-ray MicroCT; Bruker EPR System ELEXSYS E780 (X-Band ambient condition, X-Band cryo / elevated temperature, X-Band Pulse/Endoor/Triple or Rapid Scan, J-Band). Continuous usage rates (10 hours or more per day, for internal users only) for selected instruments are as follows: $1000/day for STEM; $650/day for Xe PFIB/SEM and MicroCT; $500/day for Ga FIB/SEM, EP and XPS, $400/day for Raman, XRD, SP8, SpinSR10, and Light Sheet 7; $80/day for Titan or Dell workstations. For reservations under 10 hours, standard prime and non-prime time rates apply. Charges for professional assistance and consumables are billed separately.
