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WVU Rates

BioNano Research Facilities'
WVU User Rates

Instrument Instrument Type Price per hour unless noted
User Assistance manager assistance $45
Cell Culture Facilities  cell culture
$220/month
Thermofisher SORVALL Legend XR1– CRL 381 centrifuge
$15
Bio-Rad 1D/2D Protean i12IEF Electrophoresis System-- IEF (1D)
electrophoresis system $10
Bio-Rad 1D/2D Protean i12IEF Electrophoresis System-- (SDS-PAGE, 2D)
electrophoresis system $10
Bio-Rad 1D/2D Protean i12IEF Electrophoresis System-- Imager ChemiDoc MP electrophoresis system $10
Bio-Rad 1D/2D Protean i12IEF Electrophoresis System-- Western Blot electrophoresis system $10
Thermofisher Scientific Vanquish High Performance Liquid Chromatography (ONLY) liquid chromatography $35
Thermofisher Scientific Easy-nano-Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography liquid chromatography $60
Thermofisher Scientific Q Exactive Mass Spectrometer mass spectrometer-quadrupole and orbitrap for direct infusion or liquid chromatography mass spec $60
Thermo Scientific Speedvac
speedvac $5
AMG EVOS FL Digital Inverted Fluorescent Microscope inverted fluorescent microscope $15
AMG EVOS FL Digital Inverted Fluorescent Microscope
inverted fluorescent microscope
$15
AMG Micromaster Inverted Microscope inverted fluorescent microscope
$15
Leica DMI 6000 Inverted Fluorescent Microscope with DFC300FX Camera inverted fluorescent microscope $15
Olympus Spinning Disk Confocal Fluorescent Microscope confocal fluorescent microscope
$23
Horiba Jobin Yvon Fluorolog-3 Spectrofluorometer spectrofluorometer $35
JASCO J-810  Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectropolarimeter
spectrometer $20
Biotek Epoch Spectrophotometer/Plate Reader 
(2 instances)
spectrophotometer $36

Cleanroom Facilities'
WVU User Rates

Instrument Instrument Type Price per hour unless noted
User Assistance manager assistance $45
Cleanroom Daily Entry Fee cleanroom $5
CVC 610 DC Magnetron Sputtering Station (class 10,000)
sputter deposition
$15
DC & Rf Sputtering Station
(class 10,000)
sputter deposition $15
Neocera Pulsed Laser Deposition
(class 10,000)
pulsed laser deposition $12
KJL E-beam Evaporator
(class, 10,000)
e-beam evaporator $15
Temescal BJD E-Beam Evaporator
(class 10,000)
e-beam evaporator $20
DISCO DAD-3240 Dicing Saw (entry lab) wafer dicer $35

Trion Technology Minilock III Reactive Ion Etching with Inductively Coupled Plasma
(class 10,000)
reactive ion etcher $20
March PX-250 Plasma Asher
(class 1,000)
plasma asher $10
Bruker Dektak Stylus Profilometer
(class 100)
stylus profiler $8
Tencor Alpha-Step 200 stylus profilometer
(class 1,000)
stylus profiler $5
Bruker Contour GT K0 Optical Profiler (class 10,000)
optical profiler
$10
MEIJI MT7000 Metallurgical 
Microscope (class 1,000)
metallurgical microscope $5
Labsmith HVS448 Video Microscope (class 10,000)
video microscope
$8
Labsmith SVM340 Synchronized Video Fluorescent Microscope
(class 10,000)
fluorescent video microscope
$5
JEOL JSM-7600F Scanning Electron Microscope (class 10,000) scanning electron microscope $35
West Bond 7372E6E Epoxy Die Bonder (class 10,000) die bonder $10
West Bond 74776E Gold Wire Bonder (class 10,000) wire bonder $10
Suss Microtech MA6 Mask Aligner
(class 100)
mask aligner - photolithography $20
Suss Microtech MJB3 Mask Aligner 
(class 100)
mask aligner - photolithography $15
OAI UV Flood Exposure
(class 100)
flood exposure - photolithography $10
Developer Hoods (class 10,000) development - photolithography $5
Laurell Technologies 600 Spinner (class 1,000) spinner $5
Laurell Technologies 400 Spinners
(class 100)
spinner $5
Cleanroom Hoods (class 10,000)   wet chemical processing $5
AnnealSys A S-Micro Rapid Thermal Annealer (class 10,000) thermal annealer $10
Thermal Oxidation Furnace
(class 10,000)
thermal annealer   $10
Keyence VHX-7000/7000N  digital microscope $15

Electron Microscopy Facilities'
WVU User Rates

Instrument Instrument Type Price per hour unless noted
User Assistance manager assistance $45
BioSample Prep TEM/SEM
electron microscope-sample prep
$150/cycle
Leica Ultramicrotome UC7 RT
electron microscope-sample prep
$30/cycle
Fischione 1050 TEM Ion Mill
electron microscope-sample prep
$30
Baltec CO2 Critical Point Dryer CPD30
electron microscope-sample prep
$25
Allied High Tech Multiprep Precision Polishing System
electron microscope-sample prep
$30
Allied High Tech Low Speed Saw Tech4
electron microscope-sample prep
Price incl'd with sample prep instruments
Zeiss AxioLabTM A1 Microscope
electron microscope-sample prep
Price incl'd with sample prep instruments
Denton Desk V Sputter and Carbon Coater sputter deposition-sample prep $30
Hitachi S-4700 Scanning Electron  scanning electron microscope $35
JEOL JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope transmission electron microscope $60

Materials Characterization Facilities'
WVU User Rates

Instrument Instrument Type Price per hour unless noted
User Assistance manager assistance $45
J.A. Woollam M-2000U White Light Ellipsometer ellipsometer $30
Nanoscope MultiMode Scanning Probe Microscope (AFM) atomic force microscope $16
Asylum MFP-3D Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) atomic force microscope $16
Renishaw InVia Raman Microscope Raman microscope $35
Digilab FTS 7000/UMA 600 Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectrometer spectrometer-FTIR $60
Bruker D8 Discovery X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) X-ray diffractometer $18
PANalytical X’Pert Pro X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) X-ray diffractometer $45
Physical Electronics PHI 5000 VersaProbe X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscope (XPS/UPS) X-ray photo electron spectroscope $50