Advanced Applications.
MTI uses scanning electron microscopy, which is the leading technology for analyzing materials across a wide range of applications. Like any microscope, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is used to magnify small objects. While a standard microscope uses light and glass lenses to magnify, the SEM uses a stream of electrons and electronic lenses to accomplish the same task. The improvement in magnification is astonishing! The SEM can routinely provide images of 70,000 times magnification or more.
While this improvement is important, there is another benefit to using the SEM, which is the simultaneous production of x-rays. The beam of electrons used to obtain magnified images of materials also produces a small x-ray signal, which actually identifies the chemical composition of the object being examined.
Click here to see just a few of the images we have taken with our electron microscope.
Sample Preparation and Testing Laboratory
MTI’s state-of-the-art sample-preparation and testing laboratory includes the
following features:
- Thermolyne 47900 ashing furnace
- Isomet low-speed saw
- Denton Vacuum DV401 carbon coater system
- Isotemp 500 series drying oven
- SEM sample polishing table
- Gold coater
- Deltech furnace
- LECO AF700 ash fusion furnace
- Bench-scale fluidized bed combustor
- Syngas cooler simulator
- MK100 diamond blade saw
- Stainless steel pulverizer
- Emitech K450 carbon coater
- Deposit-strength measurement device
- Denver Instruments top loader and analytical balances
- Stainless steel sample splitter/riffle
