NanoCore Research and Facilities
NanoCore is focused on multidisciplinary research
in Nanotechnology. Staff and students from many different
departments participate in NanoCore. Current research areas
are listed below. For more details, comments and suggestions, please contact our director
Professor Venky Venkatesan. NanoCore is very well equiped with state of the art facilities that can be used by all participants.
Researchers
-Venky Venkatesan - Oxide Electronics, Ion-Beam Imaging and Fabrication
-Barbaros Oezyilmaz - Graphene Electronics, Spintronic Materials
-Daniel Pickard- Active Plasmonics, Ion-Beam Imaging and Fabrication
-Sankar Dhar - Oxide Electronics
-Ding Jun - Spintronic Materials
-Andrivo Rusydi - Scattering and Valence Spectroscopy in Mesoscopic Systems
-Ariando - Charge Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
-Qing Wang - Charge Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
-Xu Qing
Hua - Charge Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
-Hyunsoo Yang - Optoelectronics and Spintronic Devices
-Jishan Wu - Nanographene synthesis, graphene-based nanocomposites
-Aaron Danner - Optoelectronics and Metamaterials
-Fwu-Shan Sheu - Bio-Nanotechnology
-Daniel Lubrich - Bio-Nanotechnology
Facilities and Equipment
-Silicon processing: 8 Inch Fab at Silicon Nano Devices Lab (400 sq.m Clean room)
-Synchrotron radiation covering
spectroscopy from XRay to IR
-Focused MeV Proton Beam for
Bio imaging of cells and sub 50nm lithography
-MeV Van De Graff for
Rutherford backscattering and channeling analysis
-MeV Pelletron for RBS/
Channeling and variable temperature channeling system
-Sub-nm (0.4nm) Helium ion
micrsocope for imaging and lithography
-Various Electron micrsocopes (SEMs
and TEMs)
-Fs/Ps Laser spectroscopy Labs
for pump-probe measurements
-Advanced Nanoparticle lab
(inorganic, organic, polymeric, biological)
-Nanoparticle characterization
Facility
-Advanced Thin Films Lab (2 PLD
systems, one PLD/ MBE, 1 Pulsed electron deposition)
-Target Preparation Facility
-Several furnaces for annealing
of targets
-ALD system
-Multi hearth e-beam deposition
system
-XRD (State of the art Brucker
system with 2D detector for pole plot)
-AFM/STM/MFM
-UV-Vis Spectrometer
-UV-IR Photoluminescence System
-Optical micrsocopes for
Garphene imaging
-2 Dilution refrigerators
-2 He3 Cryostats
-2 He4 variable temperature
transport measurement systems
-MPMS system (SQUID)
-Multi pin probe station
-High precision Ion milling
system for devices
-PEEM System for imaging
plasmons in circuits
-FIB System
-Electron beam writer
-Solar Cell Simulator/
Evaluator