The Shared Research Equipment (ShaRE) User Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is one of three Electron Beam Microcharacterization Centers supported by the Scientific User Facilities Division of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. Since its inception in 1977, the ShaRE User Facility has provided access to a suite of advanced instruments and staff scientists for the μm to-Å-scale characterization of materials in the following focused research areas:
Electron Microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- Aberration-corrected STEM–High-Angle Annular Dark Field (HAADF) imaging
- Analytical Electron Microscopy (AEM) including Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS), Energy Filtered TEM (EF-TEM), and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) including EDS and Orientation Image Mapping (OIM) – Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)
- Dual-beam focused ion beam system
- FIB, ion-milling, and microtomy for TEM/SEM specimen preparation
- NEW ShaRE Resource - Nion UltraSTEM 60-100kV dedicated aberration-corrected STEM for low- and mid-voltage operation
Atom Probe Tomography (APT)
- Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP)
- Laser-assisted LEAP
- Dual-beam FIB for APT needle preparation
The ShaRE User Facility is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
ShaRE Director: Dr. Karren L. More
865-574-7788
morekl1@ornl.gov
