University of California Irvine - Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation (LEXI)

LEXI is part of the new Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), led by Professors Xiaoqing Pan (Director) and Matt Law (Associate Director).

The Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation (LEXI), which consists of Calit2 Microscopy Center and Materials Characterization Center (MC2), is a university-wide shared user facility, focusing on the investigation of crystal structure, surface topography, materials microstructure and chemical microanalysis. LEXI offers a wide range of materials characterization instrumentation and techniques, including 3D light microscopy, 3D vibrometer and surface metrology, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), focus ion beam (FIB), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), together with a comprehensive specimen preparation facility.

LEXI users must acknowledge LEXI in their publications that rely significantly on LEXI resources. The general acknowledgement should read, "(insert methods, such as SEM, TEM or XRD) work was performed at the Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation (LEXI) at UC Irvine."

Quanta 3D users should use the special acknowledgement for publications, which should read, "(insert methods, such as SEM, FIB, EDS, EBSD, or LVSEM/ESEM) work was performed at the Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation (LEXI) at UC Irvine, using instrumentation funded in part by the National Science Foundation Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CHE-082913).