Equipment for molecular electronic materials research

Sample preparation and characterization

  Glove Box (UNIlab, MBraun) containing evaporator, spinner, hotplate and measurement box
  Vacuum evaporation and vacuum equipment
   - 2 evaporators (CVC, JEOL JEE-4B)
   - Thickness meter (Intellemetrics IL 150, Maxtek TM-100)
   - Vacuum drying oven < 250 ^oC (Binder)
   - Sputter, O⁺₂ and N⁺₂ plasma etcher (Bal-Tec SCD 050)
   - Vacuum pumps, turbo molecular and mechanical
   - Vacuum gauges
  Spin coaters (Chemat Technology KW-4A)
  KSV 2200 Langmuir-Blodgett film deposition equipment
  Ultra sonic cleaner
  UV irradiation lamps
 AFM Autoprobe CP, Parc Scientific Instruments with the following modes
   - Contact AFM
   - Non-contact AFM
   - Phase and force modulation AFM
   - STM
   - Nanolithography
  Optical microscope, Olympus BX60 with fluorescence equipment and CCD-camera

Electrical measurements equipment

  Modular DC Source/Monitor (Agilent 4142B)
  Voltage source (Keithley 230)
  Current source (Keithley 220)
  Power source (Kikusui,...)
  Signal generators (Stanford DS345, DG535,...)
  Electrometer (Keithley 617)
  Sourcemeters (Keithley 2612, 2400)
  Picoammeter (Keithley 485)
  Multimeters (Keithley 2000, 2001,...)
  Lock-in amplifiers (Stanford SR 510, 830)
  Memory oscilloscopes (Tectronix 680B, 2230, ...)
  Scanner, low current and voltage measuerments (Keithley 7001)
  Measuring program software (LabVIEW, Testpoint)

Lasers

  Ar⁺ laser, 10 W MLVS, 1.3 W MLUV, (Coherent innova 90C6)
  Pulsed Nd:YAG laser, 6-8 ns, 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm, (Brilliant Ultra GRM, Quantel)
  Dye laser (Coherent CR 599)
  N₂-dye pulse laser, 5 ns, 400 muJ/pulse (Oriel 79110)
  Diod lasers, 785 nm, 45 mW (Power Technology PM(785-60), PMT(785-50))

Light sources

  Xe, D₂, halogen - lamps

Optical measurement

  Optical table (Newport RS 3000 1.5 x 3.0 m)
  UV-vis absorption spectrometer (Hitachi U-3200)
  Luminescence spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer LS 50B)
  Photomultiplyers, Si-, Ge- and InSb-photodetectors
  Spectrometer, 200-850 nm, (Ocean Optics USB2000)
  Monocromators
   - ARC SpectraPro-300i, Monocromator/Spectrograph, 180-8000 nm
   - Oriel, 1/8 m, 200-4000 nm
  Choppers
   - Mechanical (SRS)
   - Acousto-optical (Neos)
  Power Meters
   - Pulsed and cw laser (Coherent)
   - Calibrated low-power (Newport 1930C)

Temperature control

  Cryostats
   - LHe-cryostat for optical and electrical measurements
     (OXFORD Optistat Bath >1.4 K)
   - Closed cycle cryostat for electrical and optical measuremets
     (OXFORD CCC1104 > 10 K)
   - LN₂-cryostat for electical and optical measurements (Janis VPF-475, 65 - 475 K)
   - LHe/LN₂-cryostat for electrical measurements (Russian)
   - LN₂-cryostat for optical measurements (Russian)
  Temperature controllers (OXFORD ITC503, LakeShore DRC-93CA)