Facility Usage Charges

Use of FACTS instruments is subject to the charges shown below.

Note that the standard rate covers only a small portion of the total cost of running, maintaining and training users on our state of the art equipment.

Notes:

1. Charging applies to all research staff and students.
2. NUS users will be charged at the same rate as NTU users in line with the recent announcement.
3. Charges below do not include Goods and Services Tax (GST).
4. Office hours are 8 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
5. Rates after office hours are 50% of office hour rates.
6. Undergraduates are allowed to operate the thermionic SEMs and XRD cluster 1.
7. Undergraduates are only allowed to use XRD cluster 2 after approval.
8. Samples should be submitted to the person in charge of the instrument for analysis. Charges will be incurred.
9. There is a minimum 1 hour usage charge for SEM/XRD and 2 hours for TEM/FIB.
10. For urgent bookings please contact us. A 100% extra charge will be imposed.
11. For usage with assistance, the charges are for the technical operation of our instruments and do not include data analysis nor any guarantee of results.
12. Charges will still apply if users cancel their booking within 24 hours or fail to turn up for their booked session. Please cancel sessions as soon as you know you are unable to use them to allow others to use the instrument.
13. Non-NTU users can only use the instruments with technical assistance from our scientists and will be charged at the usage with assistance rate.
14. For NTU users who require more information, please email us at [email protected], including full details of your samples.
15. For non-NTU company/industry requests please email us at [email protected] for a quote.

Hourly rates for instrument use

Rates in S$/hour. Updated 1 November 2025