Equipment manuals and instructions
Plasma Cleaner
Model: Harrick Plasma Pdc-23G. A basic plasma cleaner is available to group members, the default working gas is air, but can be coupled to a different working gas if required.
https://harrickplasma.com/plasma-cleaners/basic-plasma-cleaner/
Thermal Evaporator
Moorfield NanoPVD T15A. Available deposition sources are Gold, Silver, Aluminium and Chromium
External Quantum Efficiency Measurement System
Bentham PV300
Custom Polarized White-light and Laser Microscope
A custom polarized optical microscopy is available to group members, allowing for transmission, reflection white light imaging. The output can be coupled to a spectrometer for simple spectroscopy measurements.
Precision Hot-plate
Chemat KW-4AH
Spin-coating
At present, two spin coaters are accessible to group members, one in the solid state lab in physics and one at the SBASSE central labs shared facility
Photo-lithography
Photolihography is available to group members, alongside pre-prepared photomasks. The facility is provided by the SBASSE central labs clean room.
Electron-Beam lithography
EBL is available to group members, facility is provided by the SBASSE Central lab SEM labs.
Precision Balance
A number of precision balances are available to group members. They can be found in the LC cell fabrication lab in the right wing, as well as a glove-box balance station located in the solid state laboratory.
Details of available model:
https://radwag.com/en/as-60-220-r2-plus-analytical-balance,w1,NQ5,101-101-125-100
Stylus Profilometer
KLA 500 stylus profilometer: Instruction manual located next to setup, also very useful resources can be found here: