{"id":129,"date":"2018-12-11T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:59:27","slug":"facilities-and-equipment-existing-at-speclab-uprrp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/facilities-and-equipment-existing-at-speclab-uprrp\/","title":{"rendered":"FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is the list of equipment and facilities that are currently available at Speclab, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) for executing the proposed research.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Film growth using chemical solution deposition (CSD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), two Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) systems (one equipped with in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) guns), Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system, and an RF\/DC\/AC magnetron sputtering system;<\/li>\n<li>Programmable furnaces for up to 1700o C, hydraulic press and pellet dies;<\/li>\n<li>Two high energy ball mills and one micronizing mill grinder for powder processing and pellet fabrication;<\/li>\n<li>Hydrostatic high pressure (up to 70 tons) system for target fabrication from pellets;<\/li>\n<li>Rapid Thermal Processing system for temperatures up to 1300o C;<\/li>\n<li>Photolithography system for patterning electrodes in a clean room with resolution of ~10 microns;<\/li>\n<li>Wire bonder for depositing metal (gold, aluminum) electrodes;<\/li>\n<li>Calorimetric systems (DTA\/DSC\/TGA) from Shimadzu Corp.;<\/li>\n<li>Dry Glove box with Argon atmosphere;<\/li>\n<li>Optical film thickness monitor, ellipsometer, and profilometer for measuring film thickness and optical constants;<\/li>\n<li>Two triple Raman Microprobe Systems (#T64000) equipped with CCD\/PMT and UV\/VIS\/NIR capabilities, and a Spex Double Grating Raman Spectrometer (#1401), all from Horiba, Inc.; Several Argon ion, and He-Cd lasers as excitation sources covering UV\/VIS\/ (244 nm &#8211; 530 nm) regions from Coherent Lasers, Inc.; Closed cycle 4He cryo-systems, Raman furnace for high temperature (1500K), and a power supply for electric field induced Raman studies; Diamond anvil cell for high pressure Raman scattering studies; Raman imaging system and several optical microscopes;<\/li>\n<li>X-Ray Diffractometer, Rigaku Ultima III equipped with thin film measurement and high temperature accessories and XRF for samples compositional determination;<\/li>\n<li>FTIR Spectrometer PE 2000 (15000 &#8211; 200 cm-1) and UV-VIS-NIR Lambda 2 Spectrometer from Perkin Elmer, Inc.;<\/li>\n<li>Impedance bridges from Agilent Technology and Novocontrol, for measuring dielectric properties (10 \u00b5Hz \u2013 40 GHz), ferroelectric properties (50 Hz \u2013 1 MHz) from Radiant Technologies, I-V characteristics, from Keithley, all in the temperature range of 77K to 770K;<\/li>\n<li>Equipment for measuring polarization hysteresis (RTA 6000) from Radiant Technology;<\/li>\n<li>Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) for magnetization measurements with temperature range (77K \u2013 900K) and magnetic field up to 2T;<\/li>\n<li>Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) for electrical, magnetic and calorimetric measurements with closed cycle He liquefier from Quantum Design, Inc.;<\/li>\n<li>Solar simulator, SUN 3000, from ABET technologies for photovoltaic measurements;<\/li>\n<li>AFM\/PFM\/MFM system from Veeco Instruments (now Bruker Inc.) for thin film surface characterization;<\/li>\n<li>Multichannel Solartron and Arbin battery testers for determining the battery performance;<\/li>\n<li>Potentiostat \u2013 Galvanostat systems from Gamry Instruments, Inc., for cyclic voltometry and charge \u2013 discharge studies and also for in-situ impedance spectroscopy of electro-mechanical cells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is the list of equipment and facilities that are currently available at Speclab, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) for executing the proposed research. 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