Shared Facilities

Materials Characterization Laboratories provide scanned probe and electron microscopes facilities to characterize materials and devices that range from molecular, nano- to microscale. Characterization instrumentations provide the capabilities for imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy. They include optical/fluorescent microsocpe (Wilcox 135, Sarikaya), two-photon &anmp; confocal microscope (Nanotech Center), scanning probe microscopes - STM & AFM (Roberts 121, Sarikaya; […]

Device Fabrication and Measurements Laboratories include e-beam lithography system (Roberts 140, MSE Department), micro-contact printing (Bagley 195, Xia), and dip-pen lithography and vacuum deposition (Bagley 13B, Ginger). Device measurements include photonic (Roberts 209, Jen) and electronic (EE B052, Parviz) techniques.
Contact Dr. Hanson Fong for details.

Hybrid Molecular Design & Synthesis Laboratories include synthetic molecular materials design and synthesis facilities. These are molecules that have predicted structures and functional properties (e.g., photonics). The laboratories are located in Bagley 195 (Xia), Bagley 13B (Ginger) and Wilcox 249 & Roberts 209 (Jen).
Contact Dr. Hanson Fong for details.

Solution Biomimetics Facilities include solution and electro- chemistry. These shared facilies focus on synthesis of inorganics, such as metals, non-metals, and semiconductors in the form of nanoparticles, quantum dots, ordered arrays in 1, 2 and 3D, such as nanowires and patterned thin films. These laboratories are located in Benson 247 (electrochemitry, Schwart), Bagley 195 (solution […]

Computational Biomimetics Laboratories are exclusive to GEMSEC and consist of a cluster of about 360 processors with a cumulative processing power of 4.7 x 1012 instructions per clock (661 GHz), 169 GB RAM, and 30568 GB HD. All the machines run the Linux operating system. These exclusive facilities, under the leadership of Samudrala (Microbiology), are […]

Molecular Biology & Biomimetics Laboratories are those in which biological research is carried out for materials science applications. These laboratories include Wilcox 131 & 133 (combinatorial-phage and cell surface display; molecular biology, Tamerler & Sarikaya), Wilcox 233 & 235 (protein synthesis, purification and characterization, Tamerler & Sarikaya). Associated laboratories are located in Microbiology (HSB-I 310, […]