Research

Available Equipment

  • High Energy Ball mill (Fritsch Pulversette-6)
  • FTIR spectrometer- JASCO FT/IR-6300
  • BET/Thermal Programmed Desorption (TPD) from Quantachrome instruments
  • Nitrogen Glove Box
  • Thermal diffusivity apparatus XFA 500 Linseis
  • Zetasizer particle size analyzer, nano-ZS90
  • Analytica balances (OHAUS & Sartorius) and related accessories
  • Gas Chromotography, SRI Instruments Inc.
  • CARVER Hydraulic Press
  • Low temperature cooling bath, (-20 oC), Thermo Corporation
  • Graywolf TVOC meter
  • Thermoscientific water bath Haake S7
  • Ultrasonic cleaner VGT-1860 QTD MTI Corp.
  • Conductivity meter, ThermoScientific
  • Westward Abrasive blast Cabinet
  • UV radiometer, Eppley laboratories
  • Fluke 45 Dual Display Multimeter
  • FlackTek Inc Speeed Mixer DAC 150.1
  • Isotemp vacuum oven Model 280A Fisher Scientific
  • Weighing Balance OHAUS 3000 series
  • Centrifuge, Fisher Scientific

Affiliated faculty resources

Jeffrey Cunningham, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Atomic absorption spectroscopy
  • Gas chromatography with mass spectrometry
  • Gas chromatography with flame ionization detection
  • Gas chromatography with electron capture detection
  • Gas chromatography with thermal conductivity detection (not sure if this one is working currently)
  • High-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with ultraviolet detection
  • Ion chromatography for both anions and cations
  • Nitrogen analysis
  • Mercury analysis

Sarina Ergas, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • A Timberline Ammonia analyzer
  • An RSA Respirometer
  • Two constant temperature rooms
  • GC with Thermal Conductivity Detection

Chris Ferekides, Electrical Engineering

  • RF-sputtering dep. system - two 3” magnetron sputter guns - for metal deposition (Cu, Mo)
  • RF-sputtering dep. system - three 3” magnetron sputter guns – co-deposition – dedicated to the deposition of transparent conductors (presently ITO and SnO2)
  • RF-sputtering dep. system - three 3” magnetron sputter guns – co-deposition
  • Sputtering deposition system with two dc and two rf 3” magnetron sputter guns
  • Four small area Close Spaced Sublimation deposition systems – CdTe, CdS, ZnSe, ZnS
  • Elemental Vapor Transport System (two reactors: #1 dia size 2” and #2 dia size 3”)
  • Thermal evaporation system; co-evaporation capabilities of up to four materials
  • Thermal evaporator – general use.
  • Three annealing systems. Characterization and Device Measurement Facilities
  • 2 Keithley SourceMeter units computer controlled for I-V measurements
  • Keithley Hall Effect Instrument
  • SULA DLTS with C-V, C-T, C-V-T, I-V, I-T, I-V-T and following Options: PITS, CCDTLS, QTS
  • PL measurement set up with two excitation laser sources
  • HP impedance analyzer for C-V-f measurements
  • Solar Simulators for AM1.5 measurements
  • Spectrophotometer for optical transmission reflection absorption measurements
  • Four-point probe
  • Surface profilometer for thickness measurements
  • Spectral response/monochromatic light J-V measurements
  • 2 Thermotron SM-5.5C. and CSZ MCH-3. environmental chambers for stability studies

Electron Microscopy, EDS, FTIR, AFM, Hall Effect, XPS, and XRD available within the department and the Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology Research Center (NNRC); NNRC facilities are available for a fee. The College of Engineering also provides machine shop services for a fee (see budget justification), and the department of Electrical Engineering has engineering staff who assist with routine repairs and other lab issues.