Did you know that you can use the LatticeAx indent and cleaving tool at the PennState Materials Research Institute? The LatticeAx 420 is located in the Nanofabrication Laboratory cleanroom. It has improved the success rates for preparing cleaved samples in comparison to manual techniques using handheld tools. The LatticeAx is simple to use and can cleanly downsize samples or prepare cross sections prior to SEM or other analysis. If you need to prepare samples free of particles in a cleanroom environment, Contact the nanofabrication facility at nanofab@psu.edu.