Affiliated Labs

Utah Nanofab Lab Affiliations

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For your convenience, we have included some basic information on the specific tool capabilities of other recharge centers and non-recharge Affiliated Labs available to you.

Co-located Affiliates in the Micron Technology Inc. Foundation Microscopy Suite

Bio-TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope)

Two 120keV bio imaging instruments (JEOL JEM 1400, FEI Technai T12) are co-located in the SMBB second floor microscopy suite.  Several additional instruments in the Biology Department and in the Health Sciences Center Electron Microscopy Core are available for access to trained individuals and for service requests. One of these instruments is an FEI Technai TF20, 200keV instrument. For requests or support, contact:

David M. Belnap
Electron Microscopy Core Facility
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Biology
30 North 1900 East
5C124 School of Medicine
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 USA
Phone 801.585.1242
FAX 801.585.6364
David dot Belnap at utah dot edu

Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM)

The Microsense FCM-10 Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (±2 T applied field) is capable of measuring the magnetic moment of planar (up to 8 mm diam.) and powdered samples with a resolution of 4×10-6 emu. Measurements can be performed at temperatures between -150°C and +400°C. The system provides the experimentalist the ability to acquire: Magnetic hysteresis loops; Virgin remanent magnetization; Saturation magnetization; Coercivity; DC-demagnetization remanence; angular remanence; AC-remanence; First-order-reversal curves; and Isothermal remanent magnetization.

The system is also equipped with a linear 4-point probe for magnetoresistance measurements of thin films at temperatures between 0°C and +400°C.

For information on training and use, please contact:

Brian Baker <BBaker at eng dot utah dot edu>

SMBB satellite of HSC Cell Imaging Core

Olympus FV-1000 Scanning laser confocal fluorescence microscope

Live cell imaging.
Sources: 405, 457, 488, 514, 568, 633, 748nm
Contact:

Christopher K. Rodesch, Ph.D.

Radiobiology Lab
30 N 2030 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

801-587-7964

crodesch at cores dot utah dot edu

Affiliated Labs

Affiliated Labs are facilities operated by individual PI’s who have a desire to make their capabilities available to others, with the consideration of on-going research. Fees are charged to offset the costs of operation, maintenance, and upgrading. For additional information or to schedule time on the equipment contact Amy VanRoosendaal. We will work with the faculty to determine availability.

  • Verigy Tester

    Verigy Tester is available in MEB 1337.

  • MRSEC Labs

    1. Organic spintronics Deposition System. Location: JFB B-28/B-29; Contact Prof. Valy Vardeny val@physics.utah.edu.
      A glove box and high-vacuum deposition system for the purpose of fabricating unique organic spintronics devices. The system purchased from Angstrom Engineering will have two independent vacuum chambers. It separates the process of organic semiconductor evaporation and metal electrode deposition into two specific chambers and thus reduce the cross contamination. The organic deposition chamber has four evaporation sources, where any three of them can run simultaneously to allow co-deposition. The vacuum pressure in both chambers can reach 10-8 Torr and this may lead to a much cleaner deposition. The most unique and important design of this glove box is that we would be able to transfer organic samples between two deposition chambers without breaking the vacuum. This in-situ transfer assures clean interface between two organic material layers and metal electrodes thus enhancing the device transport properties.
    2. The Sagnac Interferometer Laboratory MOKE with 10 nanoradian resolution (JFB B-11), available April, 2013. Contact: Prof. Brian Saam saam@physics.utah.edu
    3. The Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (JFB B-24 and B-25) Contact: Prof. Christoph Boehme, boehme@physics.utah.eduCapable of basic X-band cw-EPR as well as double-resonance experiments; ENDOR, ELDOR. The special features of this facility include the ability to do optically and electrically detected EPR (ODMR/EDMR), with much higher sensitivity than can be attained with inductively-detected methods. Planned expansion of the facility includes *high-field* ODMR/EDMR, with the following features:
        • pulsed electron spin manipulation in the mm range at 240GHz and 330GHz
        • pulsed nuclear spin manipulation <600MHz
        • all common pulsed ESR, ESEEM, ENDOR excitation sequences will be possible
        • pi – times in the lower microsecond range (<4microseconds)
        • very good electrical and optical access, a sophisticated optical spectroscopy setup is part of the overall facility
        • the system will be setup such that it it can not inductively detect EPR (the conventional interferometric EPR detection), however, it will provide space so that this can be implemented at a later time at minimal cost – equipment less than 100k$, however, several years of postdoc work, this is what makes the EPR detection non-trivial)

      it will be set up so that that DNP (dynamic nuclear polarization) is possible

      • it can function as a broad spectrum NMR spectrometer, even though specialized dedicated systems will be much better for this application

      This facility may be useful in a broad variety of materials science investigations, but the level of collaboration for use of this facility will be fairly high, and with the Boehme or Saam research group. The equipment is not off-the-shelf and it is fairly sophisticated and specialized.

    4. (3+3)-Pass Tandem Fabry-Perot Interferometer (produced by JRS Scientific Instruments)
      • Frequency range: up to 500GHz
      • Resolution: 0.1 GHz (up to 1% of FSR)
      • Contrast: 1:1010
      • Magnetic sensitivity: monolayer regime
      • Wavevector range: 0 2.3 105 cm-1
      • Built-in isolation system and active stabilization mechanism for maintaining parallelism and correlation between the etalon mirror pairs.

      Available May, 2013 in HEB 4515. Contact Prof. Mike Bartl (bartl@chem.utah.edu)

    5. THz Time-Domain Spectrometer based on a Coherent 4 watt average power ultrafast amplified laser system
      • Bandwidth ~ 10 THz; will allow for optical pump / THz probe spectroscopy
      • Located in MEB 1555D (in operation by May 2013) Contact: Ajay Nahata (ajay.nahata@utah.edu)
    6. UV Time-Resolved Spectroscopy System based on a Coherent Chameleon ultrafast laser
      • Incorporates pulse picker and 2nd/3rd harmonic generation and will allow for UV pump / UV probe spectroscopy
      • Located in MEB 1555 (in operation by April 2013) Contact: Ajay Nahata (ajay.nahata@utah.edu)

     

  • Microtomography Lab: MicroCT, a Microsystem characterization instrument developed in the Metallurgy department utilizing highly focused X-rays to provide 3-D internal rendering of MicroSystems at resolution of 5-20 microns.
    Dr. Jan D. Miller, Metallurgical Engineering
  • Mechanical Behavior Laboratory
    • MTS Materials Test System with Laser Interferometer
    • MTS System with Teststar Digital Controller
    • Instron High Temperature Materials Test System

    Dr. Ravi Chandran, Metallurgical Engineering

  • Femtosecond Laser Systems
    Dr. Steve Blair, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Dr. Val Vardeny, Physics Department
  • Utah State Center for Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics
    Dr. Bruce Gale, Mechanical Engineering
  • Microsystems Lab
    Florian Solzbacher, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Analytical Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory
    This campus-wide research facility sponsors collaborative activities among the Department of Chemistry, the College of Engineering, and the School of Medicine. The laboratory is equipped with an inventory of about $1 million in laser instrumentation with capability for ultratrace level, optically-based detection and sensing, and spectroscopic studies of interfacial phenomena.

Other Recharge Centers at the University of Utah with Useful Instruments and Tools

 

Other Campus Resources

  1. Sandia Summit (TM) design and visualization tools for surface micromachining (University Alliance). Also, 50 educational licenses for ANSYS 6.0 to perform computer modeling and simulation. Intellisuite modeling software by Intellisense. Fluent for microfluidics simulation.
  2. CADE lab: SUN Solaris machines to run Finite element analysis (FEA). Also available: Intellisuite MEMS design and modeling software, and CADENCE layout software, Pro/ENGINEER.
  3. Access to Utah High Performance Computing Center (UHPC) where extensive high speed computational hardware as well as several materials simulation software packages are available.

Off Campus Resources

  1. The Fraunhofer IZM (reliability and advanced packaging) maintains a branch office at the University of Utah Nanofab.
    Use this collaboration for advanced package and system development. IZM excel in medical and optical device and systems packaging for prototyping and pre-production.
  2. BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
  3. BYU EM Lab
  4. Sandia National Labs
  5. Los Alamos National Labs
  6. North Dakota State University Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
    • Small to medium runs of PCBs
    • Small to medium runs of custom CSPs and BGAs
    • custom alloys of solder balls
    • thick film processing including printing and plating
  7. North Dakota State University Materials Characterization and Analysis LaboratoryA variety of instruments exist at NDSU to augment those in the Micron Technology Foundation Inc. Microscopy Suite, including:
    • Real-time X-ray imaging and analysis (RTX)
    • nanoindenter
    • WDS-based (quantitiative) XRF

    More information available at NDSU’s Instrumentation Page