3D Printing Lab
Facilities for 3D printing of photopolymerizable materials are available.
- Nanoscribe Professional GT for two-photon lithography for sub-micron resolution
- Spatial-Light Modulator based one-photon lithography system for micron-scale resolution
Material Synthesis Facilities
Facilities for stimuli-responsive polymer synthesis and graphene film sythesis are available.
- Ultrasonic sonicator
- Vaccum oven
- Fume hoods
Nanoscale Metrology Lab
Facilities for nanoscale metrology include:
- 2 GHz frequency domain photoacoustic microscope;
- Laser ultrasonic setup (bandwidth < 200 MHz)
- Displacement and velocity Michelson interferometers
- Innova IRIS Integrated AFM and Raman microscope
- Apertureless near-field optical microscope
- High Frequency (4 GHz) RF signal generators,
- RF lock-in amplifier, network analyzers
- Laser sources: Intensity modulated Erbium doped fiber laser (1550 nm), Nd:YAG pulsed laser (1064 nm, pulse width = 1ns, pulse repetition frequency =1kHz, peak energy per pulse = 1mJ), Nd:YAG continuous wave lasers, (532 nm, peak power = 200mW)
- High Speed photo-detectors for IR and visible wavelengths (Bandwidth:1 GHz), avalanche photo-detector (Bandwidth = 50 MHz and 5MHz -1GHz)
- Polygon scanning mirror assembly
Photoacoustics Lab
We have a suite of pulsed lasers for photoacoustic generation and several optical detecion systems for ultrasound detection.
- Ultrafast femtosecond laser and regenerative amplifier
- Long pulse laser
- CW diode-pumped lasers
- CO2 laser
- Nitrogen laser
- Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers
- Michelson interferometers
- Sagnac interferometers
- Two-wave mixing interferometers
Fiber-Optics Lab
The fiber-optics lab has both fabrication and characterization equipment.
- ASE sources
- Laser diode sources
- Erbium-doped fiber lasers
- Two-wave mixing systems
- Er, YB Fiber-Ring Lasers
- Fiber Bragg Gratings
- Fusion splicers
- GHz Photodetectors
- Optical spectrum analyzers
Ultrasonics Lab
Facilities for ultrasonic characterization of materials from the low kHz to 100s of MHz are available.
- C-scan systems (Sonix)
- Acoustocam ultrasonic imaging cameras
- SNAP system for ultrasonic nonlinearity
- Line Focus Acoustic Microscope
- Variety of ultrasonic transduces both contact and immersions
- Pulser Receivers; RF amplifiers
- PZT and PVDF sensorss
Thermal Imaging Lab
Facilities for thermal imaging include:
- FLIR camera
- Flash lamps