Operations and Maintenance Support: Surface Science Western, Western Nanofabrication and Tandetron Accelerator Facilities

此OMSRE应用程序旨在维护位于、运营和维护西部大学的三个材料科学专业设施。西部表面科学公司、Tendetron加速器和西部纳米制造设施分别于1981年、1986年和2004年在西部公司运营。除了在Western担任教授职位的三名董事(Shoesmith、Goncharova、Lagugné-Labarthet)外，他们总共还雇佣了16名员工。这些设备自成立以来一直不间断地运行，使其成为任何需要材料和表面表征、材料植入和表面图案方面专业知识的研究人员的首选设施。这些设施非常成功地参与了每年400多篇手稿以及腐蚀科学或传感应用等关键领域的专利申请。为了将这些设施中的众多仪器维持在其最高运行水平，对研究设备的维护和运行支持拨款至关重要，使人们能够通过降低维护和运行成本来进一步促进和便利访问我们的用户，而目前维护和运行成本仅由使用这些设施的研究人员的使用费来支持。只有三名全职员工的工资和福利由西部理工学院支付。因此，这些设施总共产生的收入足以支付13名员工从学术使用费和工业合同中获得的全额工资和福利。这对我们的维护预算造成了重要的压力，并阻碍了我们的一些设备在合理的时间内进行现代化和升级。 请拨的预算旨在通过限制业务费用来维护设在设施中的仪器，并便利其使用。这将允许降低用户费用，并随后继续以更有效的方式向我们的本地、国内和国际用户推广我们的设施。

This OMSRE application aims at maintaining three facilities specialized in material science that are located, operated and maintained at Western University. Surface Science Western, the Tendetron accelerator and the Western Nanofabrication Facilities been operated at Western since 1981, 1986 and 2004, respectively. All together, they employ 16 employee in addition to their three directors (Shoesmith, Goncharova, Lagugné-Labarthet) that hold professor positions at Western. The facilities have been running with no interruption since their inception making them facilities of choice for any researcher in needs of expertise in material and surface characterization, material implantation and surface patterning. The facilities have been very successful participating to more than 400 manuscripts annually as well as patents in critical fields such as corrosion science or sensing applications. In order to maintain the numerous instruments located in these facilities at their highest operation levels, the Maintenance and Operational support for research equipment grant is critical to allow one to further promote and facilitate the access to our users by reducing the maintenance and operational costs that are presently only supported by the user-fee from the researchers using the facilities. Only three full-time employee have their salaries+benefits covered by the Faculty of Science at Western. The facilities together are therefore generating enough revenues to cover the full salaries+benefit of 13 employees from the academic user-fee and industrial contracts. This causes an important strain on our maintenance budget and prevent modernization and upgrades of some of our apparatus in reasonable time. The requested budget aims at maintaining the instrument located in the facilities and facilitating its access by limiting the operational costs. This will allow to reduce users fee, and subsequently to continue promoting our facility in a more efficient way to our local, national and international users.