Facilites and Equipment
Huang group established a world-class platform for organic inorganic hybrid electronic nanomaterial synthesis, materials characterization, device fabrication and device characterization, which comprise of five fully renovated research labs (Lab A, B, C, D, E), two student offices, one break/conference room, with a total area of >5000 sqft. Here shows a glimpse of Lab A.
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Material Synthesis & Fabrication
Chemical synthesis
Fume hoods (6) 8 feet or 6 feet
Fume hood---Air science Purair ALF
Fume hood---Air science LF Series
Rotary evaporator---Buchi Interface I-300
Centrifuge----Beijing Era Beili Centrifuge Co., LTD
Schlenk system in chemical hood
Ultrasonic sonicator---Branson
Ultrasonic processor---Cole-Parmer 130-Watt
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Thin film deposition by solution process
A blade coater in flow hood--- Flow science
A blade coater in walk-in fume hood
Double length glovebox with four gloves----MBraun
Gloveboxes with two gloves----MBraun
Gloveboxes with three gloves----MBraun
Double sided glovebox with slot die coater, a blade coater and a spin coater----MBraun
Glovebox with a spin coater----Vac
Glovebox with a spin coater----Vigor
Glovebox with humidity control
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Thin film deposition by vacuum process
Angstrom thermal evaporation 1---COVAP II
Edward thermal evaporation---Edwards E306A
Angstrom thermal evaporation 2---NEXDEP
Angstrom thermal evaporation 3---NEXDEP with tall chamber
Thermal evaporation in MBraun glovebox
Magnetron sputtering---- Kurt Lesker PVD 75 PRO Line
Atom layer deposition---Veeco/Cambridge Nanotech Savannah S200
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Material processing
Polisher---UltraPol
Ball miller---Eura Drives
Heat press---MP170
UVO cleaner---Jelight 144AX
Plasma Etch---PE25-JW
Oven---QL
Vacuum Oven---SGZX-6020
Electric hot rolling pressing machine
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Device fabrication and encapsulation
PV Module laminator LAB-LAMINATOR L036LAB
Screen printer
Material Characterization Spectroscopy
X-ray diffraction ---Rigaku MiniFlex
Profilometer---Dektak XT
Fluorescence microscopy---Olympus AX70
Portable fiber optic spectrometer---Ocean optics
FT-IR spectrometer ---Spectrum Two
TRPL and TRPL mapping ---Fluo time 300 and Micro Time 100
Time-Resolved Photoluminescence---HORIBA Dleta Flex
Photoluminescenc spectrometer ---iHR320
UV/Vis/NIR spectrophotometer---LAMBDA 1050
UV-Visible spectrophotometer ---Thermo Scientific Evolution 201
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Device & Material Characterization
Solar simulator---Sol3A Class AAA
Solar simulator---Oriel instrument
Solar simulator---Sciencetech SF 300-A
Large area LED solar simulator
Light beam induced current system
Stability MPP tracking System---Enli Technology Co. Ltd
Environmental Chamber for stability testing---espec
Keithley 4200A-SCS
Probe Station---Lake Shore
Linkam Microscope Temperature Stage
Lock-in Amplifiers---Model SR830 and Model SR850
Low-Noise Preamplifier---Model SR560
Low-Noise Current Preamplifier---Model SR570
LCR Meter---Keysight E4980A
Oscilloscope with signal generator---Agilent Technologies DSO-X 3104A
Dynamic signal analyzer---35670A Aligent
Function generator---Protek B8020FD
Small X-Y scanning stage---PI MP139EK
Large X-Y scanning stage---Vexta pk 245‑01AA
X-ray/Gamma ray Characterization
Pulsed X-ray source---Normad Pro2
Continuous X-ray source --- Comet
X-ray dosimeter---Raysafe X2 Solo
X-ray Chamber 1 (120 keV)
X-ray Chamber 2 (225 keV)