Access

All instrument bookings, client job requests, new user and training requests are submitted through the MXP's online booking system, iLab. If you are already registered with iLab, please submit your request here.

  • For New Users: To request instrument training, please initiate a New User Signup (NUS) and provide the necessary details. Please note that the MXP focuses on training HDR‑level and above users. Undergraduate students are welcome to submit client job requests instead.
  • For Existing Users: To request a new project or samples, or to cross-train on another instrument, please initiate a New Project Request (NPR).
  • For Any Researchers: If you would like MXP staff to perform a job for you, please initiate a specific Client Job Request (CJR).
  • For Teaching Support: Please contact the platform manager to arrange teaching activities for the upcoming semester. Only experienced X‑ray users are permitted to undertake TA work involving specific X‑ray technologies, given the safety and technical requirements.

If you are not registered with iLab, please follow these instructions to register and submit your request:

Monash Users/clients: Please use these instructions to register with iLab. Your supervisor (CI) will also need to register with iLab: CI instructions.

External Academic Researchers: Please use these instructions to register with iLab or contact us

Industrial & Commercial Clients: Please use these instructions to register with iLab or contact Platform Manager directly at Jisheng.Ma@monash.edu

This guide will help you navigate iLab.

Important Note to Monash University Researchers: Undertaking external work at the internal charge rates may be both a breach of Monash University policy and illegal under Trade Practices Act administered by ACCC. Monash University Staff or Students who need to undertake work using MXP facilities on behalf of an external client must discuss this with the Manager well in advance of when they plan to start the work.

Useful links if you are completing a New User Signup (NUS) request in iLab:

  1. Radiation safety principles
  2. Unsealed Radioactive Material Safety Principles (if you work with radioactive materials)
  3. How to map the MXP S:\ drive
  4. New Horizons Building Induction
  5. XRD Data analysis software on MoVE
  6. Compute X-ray Absorption
  7. Crystallographic Space Group
  8. Crystallographic databases and related resources
  9. characteristic X-ray lines
  10. X-ray Data for the Elements
  11. NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database

Please refer to the Charges  for the current charging rate.

If you are planning for grant application, please contact us on how to include costs in your application budget.