Rates

Internal Rates

For external rates, please contact the RIL manager.

The instruments listed below are associated with UMD's Cost Center and a user fee applies. Below are the internal rates for UMD customers (including UMD students, faculty/staff).

Staff Assistance

For sample preparation, instrument set-up, sample analysis and report generation by the RIL manager.

  • Internal users: $44.00/hour

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

  • Internal users: $40/hour
  • Basic SEM User Training: $168/person for 2 hours. (Any additional training will be $88/hour)

Denton Vacuum Gold Coater

  • Internal users: $12.50/batch
  • Instrument Training: $45.50/session (up to 2 new users can be trained at a time)

LADD Carbon Coater

  • Internal user fee: $12.50/batch
  • Instrument training $78.50  (Up to 2 new users can be trained at a time)

Powder X-ray Diffractometer (XRD)

  • Internal users: $14/hour
  • Basic XRD User Training: $116/person

Single crystal X-ray Diffractometer (Rigaku XRD)

  • Internal users: No hourly fee
  • Contact the instrument manager for the terms of use and instrument training.

X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (Rigaku Nex CG)

  • Internal users: No hourly fee
  • Contact the instrument manager for the terms of use and instrument training.

Ion Chromatogram (IC)

  • Internal users: No hourly fee
  • Contact the instrument manager for the terms of use and instrument training.

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

  • Internal users: No hourly fee for academic use (without involving business entities).  Note that the user's PI/department will be asked to contribute to the costshare of future repairs.
  • Business-related use including consulting work by UMD researchers: External rate applies.  Contact the instrument manager ([email protected]).

IVIS

  • Internal users: No hourly fee for academic use.  Note that the user's PI/department will be asked to contribute to the costshare of future repairs.

Critical Point Dryer

  • Internal user fee: No hourly fee as long as trained users operate the equipment and RIL's SEM is used for imaging.
  • Basic user training $44/person.
  • Critical point dryer assistance by the RIL manager $44/batch  (Possible to prepare multiple samples per batch.)

For the external rates (non-UMD customers), please contact the RIL manager ([email protected]).