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User Fees and Billing

As with other university-based shared facilities, hourly user fees are charged as a means of recovering a portion of the costs associated with operating such a facility. These fees are reviewed and approved by the SMIF Faculty Advisory Committee, the Pratt School of Engineering Dean's Office, and the Duke University Central Accounting office.

Industry users working on government contracts are billed at the "External University and Non-Profit" rate.

Note: The users fees typically increase by 3% on July 1 (the start of a new fiscal year)

Equipment Use Fees effective July 1, 2024

Note: Monthly caps have been removed for all instruments except Cleanroom/EBL1 and MICROCT1. The monthly cap is the maximum amount that is charged for that tool group or instrument per month. This cap is applied per user within a given fund code, and not per faculty or PI. There is no monthly cap on users fees incurred by industry users.

Clean Room
 

Duke University

External University and Non-ProfitIndustry

Clean Room Lab Usage

0-30 hours in the month: $50.69/Hour

>30 hours in the month:  $0.00/Hour

0-30 hours in the month: $81.61/Hour

>30 hours in the month:  $20.40/Hour 

$126.72/Hour

EBL1

Electron Beam Lithography

0-30 hours in the month:$32.84/Hour 

>30 hours in the month: $0.00/Hour 

0-30 hours in the month: $52.87/Hour 

>30 hours in the month:  $13.22/Hour 

$82.09/Hour

*Cleanroom users are billed for the time they are in the cleanroom as noted by logging in (starting a Clean Room tool group reservation) upon entering the cleanroom and logging out (stopping a Clean Room tool group reservation) upon exiting the cleanroom.  Reservations for equipment inside the cleanroom are not billed, except for the EBL.

Sample Prep Lab

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

IMILL1 (Ion Mill), OVEN1, OVEN4

$5.97/Hour

$9.62/Hour 

$14.94/Hour

All other instruments

ACIDHOOD3, CPD3, EVAP3, GLOW1, PARYL1, SAW3, SOLVHOOD3, SPUT6, VITROBH1, WIBO1

$25.01/Hour

$40.26/Hour

$62.52/Hour

MicroCT Lab

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

MICROCT1

0-30 hours in the month: $61.80/Hour

>30 hours in the month: $0.00/Hour

0-30 hours in the month: $99.50/Hour 

>30 hours in the month:  $0.00/Hour 

$154.50/Hour

RECO

Reconstruction Workstations

 $25.01/Hour

$40.26/Hour 

$62.52/Hour

PRINT3D: 3D Printer

$0.30/mL regular resin

$0.40/mL special resin

$10.00 set-up fee

$0.48/mL regular resin

$0.64/mL special resin

$16.10 set-up fee

$0.75/mL regular resin

$1.00/mL special resin

$20.00 set-up fee

AFM and Optical 3D-Profilometry

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

AFM2

$30.90/Hour$49.75/Hour $77.25/Hour

AFM3

$30.90/Hour$49.75/Hour$77.25/Hour

HUMMINK1

$30.90/Hour$49.75/Hour$77.25/Hour
Electron Microscopes

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

SEM3 (Apreo)

$40.60/Hour$65.37/Hour $101.51/Hour

SEM4 (Tabletop)

$32.84/Hour$52.87/Hour$82.09/Hour

TEM2 (Tecnai)

 $63.88/Hour $102.85/Hour $159.70/Hour
Cryo-Electron Microscopes

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

TEM3 (Krios)

$58.35/HourN/AN/A

TEM4 (Tundra)

$53.05/Hour$85.41/Hour$132.61/Hour
Optical Spectroscopy and SPR
 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

OPT3 (Raman/PL)

$30.90/Hour$49.75/Hour$77.25/Hour

OPT4 (UV-Vis)

$25.01/Hour$40.26/Hour$62.52/Hour

OPT5 (FTIR)

$25.01/Hour$40.26/Hour$62.52/Hour

SPR1 (SPR)

$30.29/Hour$48.77/Hour$75.73/Hour
X-Ray Characterization

 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry

XRD2 (XRD)

$30.90/Hour$49.75/Hour$77.25/Hour

XPS2 (XPS)

$36.05/Hour$58.04/Hour$90.13/Hour
Soft Materials Lab (B606)
 

Duke University

External University and Non-Profit

Industry 

CONFOCAL1

$28.84/Hour$46.43/Hour$72.10/Hour

RSA2

$25.75/Hour$41.46/Hour$64.38/Hour

SAXS2

$26.27/Hour$42.29/Hour$65.66/Hour

All other instruments

DLS1, DSC1, ELL2, GON1, LYO1, PLAP1, RHEO1, SCOPE3

$20.60/Hour$33.17/Hour$51.50/Hour