The CNM is a user facility available to faculty, staff, postdocs, and students from UTA. Individuals from other institutions as well as from industry are welcome to submit their samples for characterization by CNM staff for a fee. The policies regarding usage of the facility by UTA personnel are outlined below.

Point of Contact 
Any potential user should first contact the facility director to discuss their sample and the particular characterization needed. All users must complete the radiation safety and laser safety modules offered by Environmental Health and Safety before approaching CNM staff regarding their experiment.

Contact information for Facility Director:

Dr. Muhammed Yousufuddin
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
700 Planetarium Pl, CPB 323 (enter through CPB 325)
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Phone: 817-272-1167
Fax: 817-272-3808
E-mail: myousuf@uta.edu 

Guidelines for New Users
(1) First determine what information you need for your sample.
(2) Select the appropriate instrument for your experiment. The facility director can help  
      you with this.
(3) Prepare the sample for the appropriate experiment.
(4) If necessary, fill out the "Request for Service" form available for download on   
      the "Forms" page of this site.
(5) Each individual instrument has a data log book. Users must log their usage in the
      approriate data log book.
(6) Special note for single crystal studies: If possible, please bring crystals for structure
      determination that have already been studied first using NMR, elemental analysis, etc.
      This will prevent unnecessary x-ray data collections on starting material and
      uninteresting side products.

Training
Users who have completed the appropriate training may be allowed to operate certain instrumentation. Please contact the facility director to request training on a particular instrument.

User Fees
A fee system has been established for CNM users from the Chemistry and Physics departments. Users outside these departments will be charged a per hour fee for usage of the instrumentation (or if preferred, a flat annual fee). The fee system is below.

Fee System

(1) Members of the Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry                          
$750 per academic year membership fee that ensures the rate of $10/hour instrument fee and $10/hour service fee if service by CNM staff is requested or required (10/10). Non-members pay a rate of $25/hour instrument fee and $25/hour service fee (25/25).

(2) UTA researchers from departments, other than Physics and Chemistry and Biochemistry                                                                  
$750 per academic year membership fee that ensures the rate of $10/hour instrument fee and $10/hour service fee if service by CNM staff is requested or required (10/10). Non-members pay a rate of $25/hour instrument fee and $25/hour service fee (25/25).

(3) Non-UTA users                                                                                                        
Please contact CNM director for rates.

Service
CNM staff are available to perform experiments on appropriately prepared samples. The service fee for staff is $10/ hour for members and $25/hour for non-members. This is in addition to any instrument fee which is $10/hour for members and $25/hour for non-members. Users requesting service should print out and complete the "Request for Service" form available on the "Forms" page of this site and return it to the facility director.

Acknowledgement
Any publications resulting from usage of the CNM facility should make an appropriate acknowledgement by citing "The characterization work was performed in the Center for Nanostructured Materials at the University of Texas at Arlington".  Please inform the facility director of any publications resulting from usage of CNM instrumentation.     

Questions, Comments and Suggestions
Please contact the facility director (Dr. Muhammed Yousufuddin).