The Experimentalists Hobbyshop
Lab Tour, Part I
AUSSL has several standard and specialty surface science techniques and is one of the
most well-equipped surface laboratories in the nation, having nearly $7M in surface
equipment.
A list of our current capabilities:
- Auger electron spectroscopy, AES (3 instruments)
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XPS (3 instruments)
- Ion scattering spectroscopy, ISS (2 instruments)
- Scanning electron microscopy, SEM (5 instruments)
- Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, EDS (2 instruments)
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy, STEM (1 instrument)
- Quadrupole mass spectroscopy, QMS (2 instruments)
- Fourier transmission infrared spectroscopy, FTIR (1 instrument)
- Scanning kinetic spectroscopy, SKS (1 instrument)
- Electron stimulated desorption, ESD (1 instrument)
- Atomic force microscopy, AFM (1 instrument)+
- Raman spectroscopy (1 instrument)+
- Temperature programmed desorption, TPD (1 instrument)
- Molecular beam surface physics (1 instrument)
- Wetting balance (1 instrument)
- Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, RBS (1 instrument)*
- Light ion channeling, LIC (1 instrument)*
- High energy ion implantation (1 instrument)*
*Supervised by Professor J. R. Williams
+Supervised by Professor Minseo Park
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Custom-Designed Multi-Technique Surface Instrument
(based on Kratos XSAM 800)
- Scanning AES
- XPS (dual anode)
- ISS
- SEM
- QMS
- UHV monolayer metal evaporators
- High pressure cell for variable gas pressure environments
- Wetting and spreading cell for studies of molten surfaces
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Custom-Designed Fundamental Surface Chemistry Instrument
- Fixed-beam AES
- Specimen heating and cooling from 77K < T < 1000C
- Electron Stimulated Desorption (ESD)
- Scanning Kinetic Spectroscopy (SKS)
- Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD)
- Quadrupole Mass Spectroscopy (QMS)
- Molecular Beam Surface Physics
- Sticking Coefficients
- UHV Metal Evaporators for Monolayer Depositions
- Ability to Expose Nearly any Gas to any Surface at any Temperature
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Dedicated XPS Instrument
(based on Kratos XSAM 800 platform)
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Multi-Technique Surface Analysis Instrument
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Programmable Temperature Cycling Scanning Electron Microscope
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Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) with Heating and HATR Capability