Physical Space
- ~ 2100 sq.ft. (~196 sq.m.) of research space.
- One main lab room with 8 smaller dark anterooms.
- One separate chemical preparation room with fume hood.
Equipment Inventory
Imaging systems
-
Bruker Dimension Edge Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
system: Contact, tapping and peak force tapping imaging
modes, as well as Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM),
Piezoresponse Microscopy, Conductive AFM module and
nanolithography capability.
- Bruker
Dektak XT surface profiler.
- High Dynamic Range camera with motorized X-Y imaging capabilities.
- Optical microscopes.
- Nikon
D850 DSLR camera with AF-S VR Micro 105 mm lens.
Lasers
- Coherent Verdi V6 Diode Pumped Solid State laser, 6 W @ 532 nm.
- Lexel model 95L-UV water-cooled argon-ion laser, 6 W @ 351 nm, 488 nm and 514 nm.
- Newport
Millennia
EV 10 Diode pumped Solid State laser, 10 W @ 532 nm,
coupled with Matisse 2 DR ultra-narrow linewidth Tunable
Dye Ring laser.
- New
Wave Research model Polaris 20 Hz pulsed Nd:YAG laser @
1064 nm, 50 mJ at 10 ns pulses.
- Lexel model 85 water-cooled argon-ion laser, 2.5 W @ 488 nm and 514 nm.
- Ion
Laser Technologies air-cooled argon-ion laser, 0.4 W @
488 nm and 514 nm.
- B&W Tek BWF light source, 450 mW @ 785 nm.
- Small solid-state lasers < 10 mW @ 405 nm and 632 nm.
Light sources and spectrometers
- ORC UV arc-lamp source.
- Oriel xenon lamp and AM1.5 filter.
- Oriel tungsten and halogen white lamps.
- Fiber-Lite fiber optic illuminator.
- Aaxa
4k LED light projector.
- ThorLabs
stabilized free-space halogen light source, range 360 to
3800 nm.
- Sciencetech 0.75-m scanning spectrometer or monochromator, range 400 to 1700 nm.
- Edmund Optics fiber optic CCD spectrometer, range 300 to 1000 nm.
- Ocean Optics QE Pro High Sensitivity UV-Vis-NIR and NIRQuest512-2.5 Extended NIR spectrometers, range 200 to 2500 nm.
- ThorLabs
Kurios tunable light filter, range 450 to 750 nm.
Nanofabrication equipment
- MBraun Unilab Pro SP glovebox, isolation and containment chamber under N2 atmosphere with <0.1 ppm H2O and O2 and a circulating solvent filter.
- MBraun
MB-SC-210 programmable spin coater integrated
inside the glovebox.
- Headway Research spin coater.
- Custom-built in our lab corona and contact poling stations, range 0 to 9 kV and 20 to 120 Celsius.
- Harrick
Plasma cleaner PDC-001 with PlasmaFlo flow mixer
Metal layers deposition
- Quorum
Q150V-ES Turbo-pumped Sputter/Carbon Coater and Metal
Evaporator.
- Bal-tec sputter coater, typically used to sputter Cu, Ag, Au, Pt, Cr, Ni electrodes.
Temperature chambers
- Delta Design temperature chamber, range -195° to +315°C.
- Thermotron temperature chamber, range -70°C to +180°C.
- Yamato ADP-21 oven with gas purging ports.
- Instec STC200C precision temperature chamber for thin film applications.
Electrical properties analysis
- Agilent 4294A Precision Impedance Analyzer, 40 Hz to 110 MHz.
- Agilent 4284A Precision LCR Meter, 20 Hz to 1 MHz.
- Agilent 4194A Impedance/Gain-Phase Analyzer.
- Agilent
33210A Function Generators.
- Keithley 2601 source-meter, I-V measurements for solar cells.
- Keithley electrometers.
- Tektronix
oscilloscopes.
- Fluke multimeters.
Optical properties analysis
- Hinds Instruments PEM-100 photoelastic modulator.
- MTI Instruments MTI 2000 photonic sensor.
- Shanghai Optical Instruments Abbe refractometer.
- Kruss
digital Abbe refractometer with circulating thermostat
- Polytec laser vibrometer, for measuring nanoscale strain vibration in piezoelectric materials.
- ThorLabs laser power meter
- ThorLabs
Polarimeter, Free Space and Fiber Coupled, 600 - 1080 nm
Amplifiers and signal generation
- Agilent function generators.
- Trek models 20kV/20mA, 30kV/20mA, 10kV/2mA voltage amplifiers.
- 4 Stanford Research Systems SR-830 lock-in amplifiers (up to 100 kHz range).
- Stanford
Research Systems SR-865 lock-in amplifier (up to 2 MHz
range).
Miscellanious optical components
- 6 large optical tables.
- Silicon and germanium photodetectors.
- Photomultiplier
tubes.
- Velmex computer-controlled rotational and translational stages.
- Rotating light choppers.
- Edwards mechanical vacuum pumps.
- Custom-built
30 cubic cm N2 purge chamber with optical window.
- Light polarizers and waveplates.
- Spatial
light filters, 5 to 50-micron apertures.
- Numerous
lenses, mirrors and other smaller optical components.
Portion of the main lab showing sample preparation desk space
Lab
room showing Lexel argon laser, Key metal evaporator and
Baltec sputter coater
Lab
room showing temperature chamber, impedance analyzers and
voltage amplifiers
Laser room
Solar
measurements room
Spectrometer / monochromator room
MBraun glovebox and integrated spin coater