Equipment Grants
SEM
Instrument: FEI Helios Nanolab 400
Granted by: National Science Foundation - Division Of Materials Research
NSF DMR-0923509 (Program Manager: Guebre X. Tessema)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
Co-PI's: Dr. Thomas Myers, Dr. Jennifer Irvin, Dr. Chang Ji, Dr. Gary Beall
AFM
Instrument: Bruker Dimension ICON
Granted by: U.S. Department of Defense AF Office of Scientific Research
W911NF‐15‐R‐0025 (HBCU/MI Program Manager Patricia A. Huff)
Granted by: Office of Naval Research
W911NF‐16‐1‐0518 (Program Office Dr. Paul Armistead)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Alex Zakhidov
Co-PI's: Dr. Gary Beall, Dr. Chris Rhodes, Dr. Tania Betancourt, Dr. Qingkai Yu, Dr. Wim Geerts, Dr. Mark Holtz, Dr. Jian Li, Dr. Tom Myers, Dr. Edwin Piner, Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
Raman‐AFM
Instrument: Horiba LabRAM HR Evolution + AIST-NT SmartSPM
Granted by: National Science Foundation - Division Of Materials Research
NSF MRI DMR-1625778 (Program Manager Leonard Spinu)
Principal Investigator: Dr. William Brittain
Co-PI's: Dr. Alexander Zakhidov, Dr. Gary Beall, Dr. Tania Betancourt, Dr. Christopher Rhodes
Confocal
Instrument: Olympus FluoView™ FV1000 Confocal Microscope
Grant by: National Science Foundation - Division Of Biological Infrastructure
NSF DBI-0821252 (Program Manager Steven E. Ellis)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Joseph Koke
Co-PI's: Dr. Dana Garcia
TEM
Instrument: JEOL JEM-1200EXII TEM
Granted by: National Science Foundation - Division Of Undergraduate Education
NSF DUE-9052039 (Program Manager Duncan E. McBride)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Koke
VSM
Instrument: Microsense LLC EZ9-HF VSM
Granted by: National Science Foundation - Division Of Materials Research
NSF DMR- 1726970 (Program Manager: Leonard Spinu)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Wilhelmus Geerts
Co-PI's: Dr. Ravindranath Droopad, Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, Dr. Christopher Rhodes, Dr. Yihong Chen
JEOL SEM
Instrument: JEOL JSM-6010 PLUS/LA
Granted by: Emerging Technology Fund Grant
Granted by: Texas State University internal funds
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tom Myers
Oxford ICP‐RIE
Instrument: Oxford Plasmalab 100
Granted by: National Science Foundation - Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
NSF ECCS-1126754 (Program Manager: Eyad Abed)
Principal Investigator: Dr. In-Hyouk Song
Co-PI's: Dr. Edwin Piner, Dr. Hsing-Huang Tseng, Dr. Byoung You, Dr. Yihong Chen
XRD
Instrument: Rigaku SmartLab
Granted by: U.S. Department of Defense Army Research Office
W911NF-15-1-0025 (HBCU/MI Program Manager Patricia A. Huff)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Holtz
Cronus probe station
Instrument: Cascade Microtech Summit 12000B-AP + Keysight B1500A
Granted by: U.S. Department of Defense Army Research Office
W911NF-17-1-0372 (HBCU/MI Program Manager Evelyn Kent)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Holtz
Co-PI's: Dr. Jian Li
Dear PI's, please highlight above grants in your publications, if you utilize corresponding equipment in your research. Feel free to use following wording that we prepared for your convenience.
This research was supported by [name of foundation/grant] and utilized the specialized equipment hosted in Texas State University’s Shared Research Operations facilities.