ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & PULSED LASER DEPOSITION

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Equipment and Capabilities

Seven Independent LabVIEWÔ Controlled Transport Measurement Systems
    Electrical Conductivity (4.2 K - 1000 K)
    Thermoelectric Power (4.2 K - 1000 K)
    Current vs. Voltage (4.2 K - 800 K)
    Hall Effect (4.2 K - 400 K)
    High Temperature System (4.2 K - 800 K)
    ZT meter for up to 16 samples at a time (room temp)
    ZT measurements on single samples (4.2 K - 400 K)
    Scanning voltage probe (50µm resolution) (room temp)
    Bell Jar based measurement system for thermoelectric module characterization
    Small stainless steel vacuum chambers for long term thermoelectric module testing
    Tube Furnace based measurement system for high temperature electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power measurements
The above systems include a number of Keithley instruments controlled by LabView based programs developed in our lab
    6" diameter tube furnace for diffusion bonding under inert or forming gas environment
    Sutter Instruments P-2000 Pipette Puller
    South Bay Diamond Saw
    EC400 Precision CNC Dicing/Cutting Saw by MTI
    Leco SS-1000 Semi-Automatic Polisher Grinder System
    Leica Microscope with ccd camera for image capture
    Indigo Systems Merlin-Mid Thermographic camera
    Janis Cryostat Probing station (4.2K - 400K) with 4 DC probes, and two 40 GHz probes
    Netzsch STA 449 Jupiter coupled to QMS Aeolos for DSC/TGA thermal analysis (300K - 1300K) coupled to a mass spectrometer to analyze off-gassing components

Pulsed Laser Deposition System
    Lambda Physik LPX 210i Excimer Laser (248nm, 25ns, 1000mJ)
    Custom UHV Chamber from Thermionics with load lock entry, 6 target carousel, optical substrate heating to 850º C in 50mTorr oxygen (1000º C in vacuum)
    Second UHV deposition chamber for the deposition of additional materials also exists to avoid cross contamination of the above system
    Tube furnace based deposition chamber for higher pressure depositions
    Enwave Optronics Inc.: EZRaman-L Portable Raman Analyzer System, 785nm