For Academic rate users:  After 24 hours of use of a given tool in a billing quarter, the Group 1 – 3 rates below are reduced by 50% for that user, for that tool, for the rest of that billing quarter. 

 

Rates: Equipment Group 1

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. Hourly Rate*Industry Hourly Rate***
 $22.00$68.00
Agilent G200 nanoindenter ""
Bruker Icon AFM""
Bruker M4 Tornado XRF""
Bruker TI-980 Triboindenter""
Hitachi SU8010 SEM""
Hysitron TriboIndenter""
Keyence VHX-600 Digital Microscope""
Keyence VHX-7000 Digital Microscope""
Nicolet 6700 FT-IR""
Panalytical Empyrean""
Renishaw Raman Spectrometer - UV - mid-IR""
Renishaw Raman Spectrometer - Vis / near-IR""
Rigaku Miniflex Powder XRD""
Thermo Axia Variable Pressure SEM""
Training CNC""
Training IEN""
Training XRD""

Rates: Equipment Group 2

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. Hourly Rate*Industry Hourly Rate***
 $44.00$86.00
Bruker Icon AFM-IR""
Gatan PIPS""
Hitachi HT7700 TEM""
Hitachi IM4000 Ion Mill""
Hitachi SU8230""
Hummer 6 Sputterer - Gold Target""
Quorum Q-150T ES""
Quorum Q-150V ES Plus""
Rigaku Smartlab SE ""
Rigaku Smartlab XE XRD""
Tescan Mira FE-SEM""
Thermo ICAP ICP-MS""
Thermo K-Alpha XPS""
Thermo Neoma ICP-MS""
Thermo NEXSA G2 XPS""
Zeiss Ultra60 FE-SEM""

Rates: Equipment Group 3

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. Hourly Rate*Industry Hourly Rate***
 $88.00$236.00
FEI Tecnai F30 TEM""
Hitachi HD-2700""
IONTOF Time-of-Flight SIMS""
Thermo Fisher Heliox 5CX (FIB-SEM)""

Rates: Long Run^

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. Hourly Rate*Academic Tier II hourly rate**Academic Tier III hourly rateIndustry Hourly Rate***
 $7.00 (first 12 hours)$5.00 (hours 12-16)$3.00 (after 60 hours)$6.00
Brimstone""""
easyXAFS300+""""
Microindenter Zwick / Roell ZHU2.5""""

Staff Time ^^

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. Hourly Rate*Industry Hourly Rate***
Staff Time$100.00$100.00


 

Shared User Tool Rates

  • * U.S. Academic and U.S. Government users pay the internal GT academic rate.
  • *** Industry usage is always charged at the nominal rate (i.e., there is no rate reduction after 24 hrs of use).
  • ^- The long-run rates reset at the end of each use instead of at the end of each billing quarter
  • ^^-Staff time is not charged for trainings, checkoffs, resolving eqpt. malfunctions, or routine questions
  • Rates are reviewed annually and are subject to change in pursuit of cost recovery.

MPCF Rates

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. RateIndustry Hourly Rate
Test System Daily Usage$125$500
Test System Weekly Usage$312.50$2,000
Ovens & Furnaces Daily Usage$25$250
Ovens & Furnaces Weekly Usage$62.50$1,000
Metallography Prep Facility Hourly Usage$7$50

OMCL Rates

InstrumentAcademic & US Govt. RateIndustry Hourly Rate
TA DSC 250$12$37
Mettler Toledo TGA2"$79
Tosoh EcoSEC GPC"$37
Tosoh EcoSEC-HT"$108
Wyatt DynaPro NanoStar DLS"$36
Horiba FL3-21 Fluorometer"$86
Shimadzu IRAffinity-1"$64
Cary 5000 UV-Vis/NIR"$28
Agilent GC/MS"$35
Agilent LC/MS"$102
Dataphysics Contact Angle Goniometer"$154