Brockhouse institute for materials research

The Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (BIMR) is Canada's oldest and most comprehensive research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary materials research. It has more than 125 members drawn from the Canadian and international materials science communities, and from academia, industry, and government laboratories. Our BIMR members are widely recognized as being among the world's leaders in the preparation, growth, and advanced characterization of materials. The BIMR is home to the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM), in which resides the world's most advanced transmission electron microscopes, capable of resolving physical structure as well as chemical and electronic detail the best spatial resolution available. BIMR is also home to the Centre for Crystal Growth (CCG) which produces most of the large, pristine single crystals of new materials in Canada, and which provides a comprehensive array of materials preparation and crystal growth infrastructure essential to progress in complex materials science problems. It is home to MAD, the McMaster Alignment Diffractometer at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor, one of a very few operating neutron diffractometers in a university environment in the world, and the only one connected to a large program of materials discovery and crystal growth. It is home to the McMaster Analytical X-ray (MAX) facility, one of the most comprehensive x-ray laboratories in North America. Taken together, BIMR provides unique and comprehensive infrastructure for materials science which is employed by a large user base to make progress on topical and demanding problems in materials.The BIMR's mission is to plan, build, and optimally operate unique and versatile tools which will enable real progress in materials science. The BIMR provides the infrastructure, access and expertise of its staff to our user base, so that Canadian materials scientists can pursue ambitious research programs of the highest quality.