Advanced Instrumentation

Electrochemical Instrumentation

  • several light-duty potentiostats for routine use
  • high current potentiostat
  • high frequency potentiostat (100,000 V/s)
  • low current sensitivity (pA range) potentiostat
  • electrochemical impedance system
  • ethernet-based potentiostat system
  • rotating disk electrode system
  • coulometry system
  • polarography system
  • quartz crystal nanobalance system
  • anodic stripping system

Spectroscopy

  • Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer
  • FT-Surface Plasmon Resonance spectrometer
  • Raman spectrometer
  • Phase Modulation-FTIR (PM-FTIR)
  • X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS)
  • Auger Electron Spectrometer (Scanning - SAM)
  • Ion Scattering Spectrometer (ISS)

Chemical Analysis

  • Gas Chromatograph (GC)
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
  • Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
  • Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

Microscopy

  • Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - 3
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) - 2
  • Interference Microscope
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging system
  • FT-IR microscope
  • Raman imaging spectrometer
  • Image enhanced ellipsometer

THERMOCHEMISTRY

  • high & low temperature solution calorimeters
  • high temperature densimeters
  • hydrothermal flow conductance

Additional instrumentation for forming thin films by plasma deposition, sputter coating, spin coating and by spray pyrolysis.