Facilities

Facilities

Room temperature confocal PL setup with Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) capability

10K confocal PL setup with ODMR capability

                                      
Room temperature confocal PLscale setup &                               Montana Instruments Cryocore cryostat. 
micron laser lithography exposure                                               4.9K confocal PL setup with ODMR capability 
                                                                                                                                             (under construction)

                                                      
Thermal evaporator                                                                                            Custom built UV exposure setup
with two boats and thickness monitor                                                 or photolithography with 3D printed body

Other significant equipment in our laboratory:

• Custom-built Directed Electrochemical Nanowire Assembly (DENA) setups 
• Custom built RF furnace for sample vacuum/inert gas annealing and for CVD/physical vapor growth of 2D materials and thin films.
• Advanced programmable centrifugal mixer: ThinkyMixer AR-100. .
• 2 Tesla switching electromagnet.
• Custom-built nitrogen plasma cleaner. 
• Harrick oxygen plasma cleaner. 
• MTI glove box. 
• Sutter P-1000 micropipette puller.

Significant shared equipment:

• 120kV JEOL Transmission Electron Microscope.
• High resolution scanning electron microscope (Hitachi S-5500).
• Atomic/Magnetic force microscope (Digital Instruments, Dimension 3100).
• X-ray diffraction spectrometer (Rigaku MiniFlex).
• Leica confocal imaging microscope.
• Horiba high resolution photoluminescence spectrometer with integrating sphere and cryogenic sample holder with lifetime measurement capability.
• Machine shop with a computerized lathe, bandsaw, press drill, and diamond blade saw.
• Cell and tissue culture room: Laminar flow hood, Tissue culture (CO2) incubators, Beckman Allegra 21R centrifuge.