Center
for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM)
Advanced Materials
Reseach Center (AMRC)
Texas
Materials Institute (TMI)
Electron Microscopy Facility
The SEM facilities of TMI are in several locations around campus and are managed by two different facility managers; they include a Hitachi S-4500 field emission SEM for high resolution or low voltage applications, ENVIROSCAN environmental SEM with KEVEX EDS, JEOL 840 scanning microscope, LEO 1530 field emission SEM with 1XRF EDS, JEOL 2010F FASTEM . a field emission TEM for ultrahigh resolution with EDS, EELS, electron biprism for holography and many other features, JEOL 2010 TEM, JEOL 200CX TEM and sample preparation facilities including: ion miller, dimpling grinder, plasma cleaner and ultrasonic disk cutter.
X-ray Scattering Facility
This facility includes a Scintag Diffractometer; Phillips Powder Diffractometer (with back-reflection lane, Debye-Scherrer and Gandolfi cameras); Bruker-Nonius D8 Advance Powder Diffractometer, CAD4 Single Crystal Diffractometer and a Nonius-Molecular Metrology Multipurpose Small Angle Xray Scattering System. Various software systems are available for data analysis.
Surface Analysis Facility
A PHI 5700 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) System, PHI 7200 Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (ToFSIMS) System, PHI 590 Scanning Auger Microprobe (SAM), Scanning Probe Microscope and ATC 1500 H Sputtering System are part of this facility.
Polymer Characterization Facility
This facility includes a Corona Wescan Vapor Pressure Osmometer, Wyatt Technology Multiangle Static Light Scattering Instrument, Brice-Phoenix BP-200-V Differential Refractormeter, Waters SEC with differential refractometer and UV detectors, VISCOTEK SEC with refractive index, viscometer and light scattering detectors, Waters SEC with refractive index and UV detectors, PERKIN ELMER DSC 7 Differential Scanning Calorimeter, PERKIN ELMER TGA7 Thermogravimetric Analyzer and a HP8450 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer.
Facility for Ultra Fast Nanoscale Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
One of the first initiatives of TMI was to help combine the expertise on the UT-Austin campus in the areas of high-resolution optical microscopy and femtosecond laser spectroscopy to build facilities for studying materials chemistry, nanostructure physics, semiconductor engineering, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering. These facilities are located in the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM). The CNM research facilities are co-located with the Laboratory for Spectroscopic Imaging (LSI) in 6,000 sq ft of newly renovated laboratory space in the 31NN complex in the ENS building on the main campus of the University of Texas. The Center facilities are comprised of several recently purchased state-of-the-art research tools. These include a Picosecond Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer/Microscope, NSOM (Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope) and Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Facility.
Facility for Scanning Probe Microscopy
This facility includes a Digital Instruments Dimension 3100 with Nanoscope IV controller Atomic Force Microscope and an Asylum Research Molecular Force Probe 3D AFM for molecular force probe microscopy.
Facility for Nanodevice Fabrication and Testing
This facility includes an E-beam Lithography station, a Dual Beam FIB, a Karl-Suss Probe Station and equipment for thin film deposition such as an MBraun Glove box, a Denton Thermal Evaporator and an E-beam evaporator.
Facilities for Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy
In this facility there are tools set to obtain electronic (UV-VIS) spectra and luminescence lifetimes as fluorimeter (UV-Vis and IR detectors), UV-Vis absorption spectrometer, a Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrometer and a Thermo Mattson Infinity Gold FTIR with Spectra-Tech Thermal ARK module3.
Specialized Central Facilities
These are facilities managed by an individual faculty member or group of faculty members that may be of interest to other researchers at UT-Austin and have been made available for this purpose. Currently, the TMI web site lists four such facilities: Mechanical Testing, Polymer Processing, Nanostructural Characterization and Thermal Analysis. The responsible faculty listed there can be consulted about training and use of these facilities. TMI provides occasional financial assistance for these facilities when the need is justified and funds are available.
Microelectronic Research Center
The facilities at MRC include 12,000 square feet of class 100 and class 1000 clean-room space for crystal-growth and device processing. In addition to state-of-the-art clean-room facilities, MRC has 15,000 square feet of characterization laboratories. The clean-room contains complete Si CMOS processing capability, including fine-line lithography, sputter deposition, reactive-ion etching, ultrahigh purity process gases, a DI water system, rapid thermal processing systems, wet chemistry stations, and low pressure CVD for polysilicon, oxides, and nitrides. The clean-room also houses the reactors for several Si and III-V epitaxial crystal-growth techniques, including molecular beam epitaxy, metalorganic CVD, remote plasma CVD, rapid thermal CVD, and ultrahigh vacuum CVD, chemical vapor deposition systems for Si-Ge-C heteroepitaxy, I-V characterization as a function of temperature, magnetic field, pressure, photoluminescence, DLTS. The characterization laboratories contain the apparatus for comprehensive optical and electrical measurements as well as extensive computer facilities.
