Shared Resources


SLM 125 L-PBF

  • laser-powder bed fusion metal additive manufacturing
  • 400 W laser
  • 125 x 125 x 75 mm3 build volume
inside of metal 3-D printer

AIM Lab – Maryland NanoCenter

  • professionally staffed central facility, the Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) Lab
  • houses a suite of high-resolution electron microscopes

FAB Lab – Maryland NanoCenter

  • professionally staffed central facility, the Advanced Fabrication Lab
  • class 1000 cleanroom for nanofabrication, including thin film synthesis, etching, lithography, and metrology

Advanced Fabrication Laboratory

  • consists of more than 1400 square feet of space, including three distinct areas for rapid prototyping: design studio, mechanical prototyping, and electrical prototyping
  • houses more than $2M worth of digital manufacturing equipment

X-ray Crystallographic Center

  • professionally staffed central facility offering non-destructive X-ray diffraction equipment to determine single crystal and polycrystalline crystal structures

George E. Dieter, Jr. Materials Instructional Lab

  • central facility for undergraduate teaching mechanical properties of materials
  • houses a suite of metallurgical and mechanical testing equipment, including uniaxial load frames, rotating beam fatigue, Charpy impact, hardness (macro, micro, and nanoindentation)