Shared Facilities

An Edwards vacuum deposition system with RF sputtering capability is located in Stauffer III. This system is most often used for thermal evaporation of gold coatings, but is available for other uses as well.

A KSV 2000 Langmuir-Blodgett trough is available for thin film fabrication.

The ABI PRISM® 310 Genetic Analyzer is an automated single-capillary genetic analyzer designed for a wide range of sequencing and fragment analysis applications.

An Instron 5844 mechanical tester is available for measuring the mechanical properties of materials. It is currently being used extensively in the testing of artificial cornea hydrogels. BioPulse bath and grip instrumentation is available for testing materials in an aqueous environment.

A Leica optical microscope is available.

A Nikon Eclipse TE 2000-U fluorescence is available for thin film characterization.

A TA Instruments Q100 differential scanning calorimeter is available for thermal analysis of materials.

Two different dielectric/iimpedance analyzers are available for use with the quartz crystal microbalance analyzers. Hewlett-Packard 35670 Dielectric Analyzer.
Agilent 4294A Impedance Analyzer.

An FTA 2000 contact angle analyzer is available for surface characterization.

A Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2000 is available for characterization of thin films, liquids, and powders. A grazing incidence accessory and an horizontal ATR accessory are available for use with this instrument.