Condensed Matter Equipment

Equipment Contact
  • 3+3 pass tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer
  • 2 W diode-pumped solid state single mode laser
  • 1 Spex Dual-Grating Raman Spectrometer
 Andrews
  • DC/RF sputter deposition system
  • Atomic Force microscope
  • Scanning tunneling microscope
  • Optical microscopes
  • UltraMicro Balance
  • Cantilever Sensor System
  • Thin film stress analyzer
  • Etching station
  • Double Glovebox
 Beaulieu
  • Femtosecond laser amplification system
  • Excimer Lasers
  • Infrared tunable laser sources
  • Near-field scanning optical microscope
  • Leica DMR research microscope system for life sciences
  • Gaertner ellipsometer
  • Integrated optical and electrical tester
 Chen
  • Tube Furnace
  • Vacuum evaporator
  • 2 Argon Ion lasers (3 W)
  • 1 Diode Pumped Solid State Laser (200 mW)
  • 2 Burleigh 5-pass Fabry-Perot Spectrometers
  • 2 APD Cryogenics Closed-Cycle Helium Refrigerators (10 K)
  • 2 Variable Temperature Liquid Helium Cryostats (4 K)
  • 1 Laue X-ray Diffraction Setup
 Clouter
  • 3.5 T wideline NMR spectrometer with variable pressure 2H probe
  • 9.4 T wideline NMR spectrometer
  • STIRLIN-2 nitrogen liquefier
  • KOCH 1410 Helium liquefier
 Morrow
  • Potentiostat/Galvanostats (electrodeposition, impedance spectroscopy,rotating disc electrodes, bipotentiostat)
  • Box furnace (programmable)
  • Water, distilled and ultrapure
  • Scanning Probe Microscope (ambient or in fluid imaging)
  • UV-Visible Spectrometer (transmission and diffuse reflectance)
  • Hysteresis loop tracer
 Poduska
  • Upright and inverted optical/fluorescence microscopes
  • Three-laser point-scanning fluorescence confocal unit (scan-rate ~ 1 frame per second)
  • Two-laser high-speed scanning confocal unit (scan rate ~ 150 frames per second)
  • Spincoater
  • Table-top centrifuge
  • Three-axis diffusion/imaging probe for Bruker 600 MHz NMR spectrometer
  • Colloid synthesis accessories
  • Conductivity meter
  • Autocorrelator for two-photon microscopy
  • Rheometer
 Yethiraj
  • 500 MHz and 600 MHz Bruker NMR spectrometers (via C-CART)
  • Differential scanning calorimeter (via Biochemistry)
  • Powder X-ray diffraction (via Dr. J. Shirokoff (Engineering) and Dr. R. Mason (Earth Sciences)
  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction (via C-CART)
  • Scanning electron microscope and Energy dispersive X-ray analysis (Biology contact Dr. Liqiu Men)
  • SQUID magnetometer (via Chemistry contact Dr. L. Thompson)
  • Raman microscope (Biology contact Dr. Liqiu Men)
 Other campus
facilities used by
condensed matter
group