ASTM, NIOSH, and US EPA methods. Areas of Expertise Particle Characterization Material Characterization Product Failure Analysis Corrosion Analysis Quality Control Contamination... Course Solutions Nanoparticles Environmental Stack Sample Testing Litigation Support Manufacturing Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices Laboratory Support Particle Characterization... services typically help clients answer: . Where did the contamination come from? What is this unknown material? What is the root cause for this product failure? What is the composition...

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elements down to carbon (atomic number 6), allowing us to characterize most materials. Field Emission SEM The Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is similarly... Characterization Contamination Analysis Product Failure Analysis SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is one of the most powerful and useful tools available... with high resolution imaging at magnifications up to 300,000X. This allows us to examine and characterize particles and nanoparticles, fracture surfaces, surface morphologies...

Characterization Contamination Analysis Product Failure Analysis SCANNING WHITE LIGHT INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY Surface roughness and the details of the surface profile determine the performance... to quantitatively measure the surface texture or roughness of materials. The technique requires no sample preparation, is non-destructive and is extremely fast. A range of magnifications can... be used to characterize the surface roughness of a sample set or device. Unlike stylus profilometry and physical cross sectioning techniques, interference microscopy results...

Characterization Contamination Analysis Product Failure Analysis MICRO-FTIR SPECTROSCOPY Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) provides specific information about chemical bonding... and molecular structure, making it useful for analyzing organic materials and certain inorganic materials. Many materials are partially transparent to infrared light, with different... radiation at different wavelengths, producing an infrared spectrum. This spectrum is used as a fingerprint, and compared to the spectrum obtained from a known material or to libraries...