Welcome to the Sheffield Surface Analysis Centre (SSAC)
SSAC is a facility based within the University of Sheffield providing access to state of the art surface analysis instrumentation for both commercial and academic research.
The chemical and physical characteristics of surfaces have profound effects on the performance of materials and devices in a wide range of applications. The ability to characterise both the compositional and structural properties of a surface is essential in areas such as:
- Biotechnology
- Medicine
- Coatings
- Adhesives
- Fracture Analysis
- Contamination
- Tribology
- Thin Film Characterisation
Instrumentation
SSAC houses a variety of surface analysis instrumentation for the characterisation of surfaces, the most desirable being our Axis Ultra DLD XPS and ToF.SIMS5. Alongside these instruments we have facilities for atomic force miscroscopy, ellipsometry and contact angle goniometry. These complimentary techniques can give a wealth of diverse information on your surfaces from the high resolution spatial mapping of a contaminant or coating to quantitative chemical bonding information.
