Top of page
Skip to main content
Main content

Experimental


The Physics Department at Emory University hosts a suite of research facilities for material and device preparation and deposition, nanofabrication, characterization and measurements.

Facilities listed as shared departmental equipment are available free of charge to all researchers affiliated with the Physics Department. If you are not affiliated with the Department and wish to access the facilities, please contact the person listed as the facility supervisor. Facilities located in individual research labs are often available to other researchers on a collaborative basis. If interested, please contact the listed supervising faculty.

Preparation and Deposition Facilities

The preparation and deposition facilities hosted by the Physics Department at Emory University include an automatic wafer dicer, a high-temperature tube furnace, a three-source thermal evaporator, a four-pocket e-beam evaporator, a multisource sputtering/ion milling system, a molecular beam epitaxy system, and a chemical vapor deposition system. 

  • Molecular Beam Epitaxy System 
  • Automatic Water Dicer 
  • High Temperature Tube Furnace 
  • Thermal Evaporator 
  • E-Beam Evaporator 
  • Sputtering /Ion Milling System 
  • Chemical Vapor Deposition System 

Preparation and Deposition Facilities

The preparation and deposition facilities hosted by the Physics Department at Emory University include an automatic wafer dicer, a high-temperature tube furnace, a three-source thermal evaporator, a four-pocket e-beam evaporator, a multisource sputtering/ion milling system, a molecular beam epitaxy system, and a chemical vapor deposition system. 

  • Molecular Beam Epitaxy System 
  • Automatic Water Dicer 
  • High Temperature Tube Furnace 
  • Thermal Evaporator 
  • E-Beam Evaporator 
  • Sputtering /Ion Milling System 
  • Chemical Vapor Deposition System 

Contact: Sergei Urazhdin  
Affiliation: Nanoscience Research Group 

  • Laser Cutter 
  • Oxygen Plasma Cleaner  
  • Contact: Justin Burton  
  • Affiliation: Fluid and Granular Materials Laboratory 

Nanofabrication Facilities

The nanofabrication facilities hosted by the Physics Department at Emory University include an E-beam lithography system, a Photolithography Setup, and a dedicated fumehood with a spinner, a digital hotplate, and a complete array of chemicals utilized in lithographic processes. 

  • E-Beam Lithography System 
  • Photolithography Setup 
  • Fumehood for nano fabrication  

Contact: Sergei Urzahdin 
AffliliationL Nanoscience Research Group 

Characterization and Measurement Facilities

The characterization and measurement facilities hosted by the Physics Department at Emory University include a biophotonic imaging system, 3D confocal microscopy imaging system, a variable pressure scanning electron microscope, an atomic force microscope, a Static and Dynamic Light Scattering System, a diffraction-limited bright/darkfield DIC optical microscope, a magnetoelectronic property characterization system, a microwave spectroscopy system, a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, and a MOKE Magnetometer. 

  • Atomic Force Microscope 
  • Scanning Electron Microscope  
  • Optical Microscope  
  • Magnetoelectronic Characterization System  
  • Microwave Spectroscopy System 
  • Vibrating  Sample Magnetometer  
  • Moke Magnetometer 

Contact: Sergei Urazhdin 
Affiliation: Nanoscience Research Group 

  • Continuous-wave Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 
  • Pulsed-Electron Paramagnetic resonance spectrometer 
  • Contact: Kurt Warncke 
  • Atomic Force Microscope for biological studies 
  • Magnetic tweezer 
  • Tethered particle microscopy 

Contact: Laura Finzi 
Affliliation- Single-Molecule Biophysics Research Group 

  • Biophotonic imaging system 

Contact Keith Berland 
Affiliation: Biophotonics Research Group 

  • 3D confocal microscopy imagery system  

Contact: eric weeks
Affiliation: Complex Fluids Group