Custom AFM/STM/SPM and near-field optical tools for nanoscale imaging and interrogation of surfaces.
Facilities
Lab Equipment and Experimental Systems
Our lab is equipped with a variety of custom-built optical and electrochemical-optical systems, spectroscopy equipment, scanning probe microscopes, and in situ reaction cells to probe optical, nano-, and biological materials and catalysts under different conditions. We also have several plasma systems for nanomaterial synthesis, materials modification, and chemical conversion, as well as additional equipment for characterization, catalytic testing, electrochemistry, materials deposition, and fabrication of all kinds.
LAB EQUIPMENT
UHV surface science cluster: TPD-mass spec, XPS, Auger, ion guns, Knudsen cell, magnetron sputtering.
Lasers! Ar+, Kr+, Nd:YAG, 2x Ti:sapphire fs oscillators (Penelope and Mangosteen), tunable ps Ti:sapphire for super-
continuum generation, DPSS.
Microplasma jet deposition reactors.
FTIR with operando DRIFTS reactor and high speed IR absorption capabilities.
Perkin Elmer LS50 Fluorimeter.
LED and microLED LIV testing station.
Monos, monos, and more monos!
Variable temperature PL system down to 13K with closed cycle He refrigerator.
Zeiss inverted microscope with spectrophotometer.
Our mill - a workhorse!
Jobin-Yvon T64000 confocal Raman Microscope (in CNSI).
Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) in UHV.
Our lathe - "Semechki".
Goniometer for angle resolved optical studies.
Lasers in action!
FTIR spectrometer #2.
Microplasma jet in action.