About the Facility
The Surface and Materials Characterization Facility (SMCF) provides state-of-the-art instruments for nanometer-scale surface measurement, thermal analysis, and mechanical characterization of a variety of materials.
The SMCF is defined in three areas (bays): scanning probe microscopy, thermal and optical analysis, and mechanical characterization and sample preparation.
The SMCF Specialist, Dr. Lanping Yue, oversees the SMCF central facility, maintains equipment, and teaches and assists users in operation, analysis techniques, and data interpretation and presentation. Research collaborations are welcome from all university research groups and companies in Nebraska and elsewhere.
Facility Contacts
Acknowledgement Text
Agencies, including the NSF and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, providing partial support of our Nebraska Nanoscale Facilities and Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Facilities require that the following words be included at the end of any Acknowledgement section of a paper in which experimental work was done in NNF-NCMN facilities:
"The research was performed in part in the Nebraska Nanoscale Facility: National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (and/or NERCF), which are supported by the National Science Foundation under Award ECCS: 2025298, and the Nebraska Research Initiative."