Laboratory

2019 and 2025 Engineering Unit III

wet lab (900 sq. ft)

• Millipore water purification system
• environmental control chamber
• Langmuir-Blodgett trough
• Brewster angle microscope on the trough
• wafer spinner, water circulator
• probe sonicator, bath sonicators
• chemical safety hoods, chemical safety refrigerator
• rotary evaporator, glassware oven, vacuum oven
• glove box
• UV ozone cleaning systems
• Plasma cleaner
• particle sizer
• chemicals, glassware, and supplies
• soft lithography station

Imaging and Spectroscopy Dry Lab (600 sq.ft)

• Integrated Optical Imaging System for Brewster angle microscopy, null ellipsometry, and surface plasmon resonance measurements
• Infrared vibrational spectroscopy System for ATR, specular reflection, variable temperature spectroscopic and microscopic measurements
• Perkin-Elmer LS 50 Fluorimeter with variable temperature, plate reader, and fluorescence decay time capabilities
• SPM Sys Veeco Dimension 3100 equipped with Nanoscope IVA controller and hybrid scan head
• Contact angle measurement system (home-built)
• Nikon TE 2000 Epifluorescence Microscope
• Nikon TE 2000U based total internal reflection fluorescence microscope

Cell Culture Facility (300 sq. ft)

• Incubator, refrigerators, and a cell culture hood.