Core facilities

• Ultra-high vacuum AFM/STM and VariableTemperature-STM (30-1300 K)
• Ambient AFM/STM incl. sub-pA current detection and other advanced regimes
• Electrochemical AFM/STM incl. all advanced detection regimes
• Micro-Raman and PL spectrometer with UV/VIS/NIR lasers
• AFM-Raman spectrometer with 442 nm (blue) laser
• Electrochemical analyzer (bi-potentiostat/galvanostat) incl. impedance module
• Electronic device characterization (down to fA), as a function of temperature
• Photoelectron spectrometer (XPS, UPS)
• Fast Fourier Transform Infra Red spectrometer (FTIR)
• Fourier Transform Photocurrent Spectroscopy (FTPS)
• Hall effect and resistance measurements at low and high temperatures
• Ellipsoidal cavity microwave plasma CVD reactor
• Large area (20x30 cm) pulsed microwave plasma CVD reactor (more info)
• Diamond boron doping process
• Reactive ion etching (20 cm diameter)
• Thermal evaporation of metals (Al, Ni, Au, Ti, ...)
• Magnetron sputtering system and e-beam evaporation
• Optical and electron-beam lithography
• and more...

             
     AFM-Raman micro-spectrometer                           Large area diamond and nanotube reactor         Electrochemical analyzer