Student performs photolithography in our clean room
The majority of our experimental research takes place in the department’s state-of-the-art laboratories. Our well-equipped facilities include: a dual-chamber molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system for the growth of III-V semiconductors; several scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes for high resolution imaging and patterning of atomic surfaces; a cleanroom for optical lithography and semiconductor processing; a thin-film laboratory for routine vapor deposition; variable temperature (4-300 K) and high magnetic field (7 T) facilities for magneto-optical studies; optical microscopes for single nanoparticle spectroscopy; a grazing angle infrared spectrometer for molecular spectroscopy of monolayers; and full characterization techniques for solar cells analysis including a class-A solar simulator, an external quantum efficiency system with capacitance-voltage analysis equipment. Scanning electron and transmission electron microscopes are available in the Samuel Roberts Noble Electron Microscopy Laboratory and are routinely used by our students for their research.