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Welcome to the Materials Analysis and Research
Laboratory
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Schedule system changed January 11, 2008:
MARL has changed over to use ORS as its
scheduling system.
This is the same system used by Ames Lab and MSE.
Contact MARL staff if you have trouble reserving time.
Please update your scheduling bookmarks.
The Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory (MARL) is part of the
Materials Science and Engineering Department at Iowa State University. We are located in rooms 23
through 68 in the basement level of Town Engineering Building at the northwest corner of
the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa (campus
map).
The laboratory includes equipment for:
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS)
- X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
- X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
- Thermal Analysis (DTA, TGA, DSC)
Here are some links to the rest of the site:
- MARL WWW site (the detailed lab web pages)
- MARL ftp site (a repository of user files for
downloading. Sensitive files are stored in a password-protected area.)
Note: some browsers and sites may have problems, on their end, that prevent accessing
these files. Click here for an explanation and
solution.
- Thermal Analysis results
(TGA and DSC results ready as the runs are in progress)
- Interesting files
(this subdirectory has a number of interesting pictures)
- Utilities (this
directory includes several utilities including the PCI Viewer for images.)
- Pixera example files
(a collection of images taken with our Pixera CCD camera. The x-resolution makes up the
last part of the file name.)
- Equipment schedules Users may view equipment schedules
prior to requesting appointments.