Facilities & Instrumentation

The Robert F. Sears Jr. 天文馆是一个有30个座位的天文馆，坐落在一个16英尺高的空间里 dome. The sky projection system uses a Digitarium Gamma digital projector that can display the sky from anywhere on Earth between 100,000 BCE and 100,000 CE. 

365bet天文台由一个0.5米的里奇-克里斯蒂安望远镜安装在德国赤道上 安装在一个16英尺的圆顶内，以及一个存储设施.  望远镜装备齐全 with a large format imaging camera (Apogee Ulta U16000) with Sloan Digital Sky Survey-ugriz filters. A set of Johnson-Cousins UBVRI-filters and a small set of Balmer-alpha redshifted 过滤器也可用. 此外，本署亦是 WIYN 0.9m Consortium at the 基特峰国家天文台 in Arizona. The 0.9米WIYN望远镜配有大画幅成像系统 还有几个过滤器. 365bet每年有16个晚上使用这个系统.

Loki, the 365bet computing cluster consists of 32 compute nodes (each with 2 quad core 英特尔至强L5420处理器[8个核心运行在2.50ghz]和16gb ram [4] nodes have been upgraded to 32 GB]) connected to each other by switched gigabit ethernet.  The nodes are managed by a head node which has 2 quad core Intel Xeon L5420 processors [8个核心运行在2.50ghz]， 32gb内存，26tb磁盘空间 通过NFS与计算节点共享.  已安装的软件包括NWChem、ECCE、 and Gaussian.

Fantasy Factory facilities include: lathe, mill, table saw, miter saw, router, mig 焊机，钻床，以及一整套手动工具.

Part of the Materials Fabrication Lab, The 玻璃制备实验室 includes a SentroTech high-temperature bottom-loading furnace (up to 1700 C working temperature) with a 可编程温度控制器.  实验室还包括：退火炉； a low-speed sample-cutting saw; a programmable polishing machine, and other supportive equipment.

Part of the Materials Fabrication Lab, this PC controlled (both power and temperature via LabView) stand-alone 热蒸发器 is capable of monitoring pressure, power and thickness.  It is capable of co-evaporation or sequential evaporation of metals or organics. Technical specifications: Sample Holder - up to 4”, rotating at 3 RPM; dry scroll pump and turbo molecular pump; base Pressure: 2 x 10^-6 Torr; sources - dual crucible evaporator with auto shutters, programmable evaporation route; automatic control of deposition rate and thickness.

Spirit® 1040-8是一种固态激光器，输出功率为8w， 40 μJ最大脉冲能量 at 1040 nm wavelength, 200 kHz repetition rate and <200 fs pulse width.

OPO是可调谐的相干光源. OPO利用了非线性行为 某些晶体在强光源照射下形成的. 当非线性 crystal is illuminated by an intense pump beam, it will emit two other waves called 闲散器和信号在一个过程中称为三波混频. The Spirit-OPA is an automated collinear optical parametric amplifier (OPA) specifically 为Spirit®超快激光器构建并优化. Spirit-OPA包括一个内置的 第二个谐波发生器来转换圣灵® IR output into a 520 nm pump beam for the OPA, which then generates signal and idler 红红外范围（630 - 2600nm）. 进一步增强其波长调谐 capabilities, the OPA is equipped with harmonic modules that allows access to a broad, 无隙波长范围为630nm ~ 16 μm.

Acquired through NSF MRI grant DMR-1725188 this ORTEC spectrometer is state-of-the-art picosecond timing system for positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) for advanced undergraduate research and characterization of the materials’ void structure at (sub)nanoscale. 配备快捷方便的数据采集系统； adjustable detectors assembly and warrants time resolution of 200 ps or better.

This versatile system is used in research and advanced undergraduate projects for micro-Raman spectroscopy of bulk solids, powders, liquids, thin films, and microscale particles (e.g.石墨烯薄片). 它具有两个可切换的激光源（532） & 633 nm), a fiber-coupled spectrograph (150-mm focal length) with motorized diffraction gratings (150 & 1800 lines/mm), a high-sensitivity cooled CCD detector (1024x100 pixels), Köhler and dark-field illumination in reflection, long-working-distance metallurgical objectives, and XYZ electrostrictive nanopositioners (60-nm resolution) with low hysteresis and drift. The optical spatial resolution is ~2 microns and the Raman spectral resolution is ~1.5 cm^-1. Thanks to its highly customizable modular design, the system can accommodate additional light sources and detectors, a temperature-controlled sample mount, and 反射和透射测量用光路.

A high performance Raman spectrometer which is coupled to a research grade optical microscope, allowing both standard optical microscopy and detailed chemical analysis 在单个系统上. Technical specifications: spatial resolution < 1 micron; spectral resolution 1.1-1.8 cm^-1 depending on the laser source; spectral range 100-4000 cm^-1; two excitation lasers (532 and 785nm). 检测器- 1024像素，高灵敏度 air cooled CCD.

This FL3-11 system has two single-grating spectrometers in the excitation and emission positions, a T-sample compartment, and a photomultiplier tube (PMT) with a photon 计数系统，由计算机控制.  PMT光谱范围为250 nm to 800 nm. The steady-state excitation source is a broadband 450 W Xenon lamp with 从紫外线到近红外的辐射. 有了这个激发源，发光发射 可以测量250 ~ 800 nm的激发光谱. 这个FL3-11系统也是 equipped with a Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting system (TCSPC), including a HORIBA FloroHub station and fixed-wavelength interchangeable pulsed NanoLEDs and SpectraLEDs. Wavelengths of 280, 320, 370, and 390 nm are available from standard optical pulse 持续时间从200秒到2秒. 从200 ps到10 μs的寿命可以使用 this TCSPC and lifetime from 10 μ to 10 ms can be measured operating in the MCS mode 使用脉冲光谱法.

The NETZSCH DSC-204 F1 determines the temperature and heat flow associated with material 转变为时间和温度的函数. 它还提供了定量和 qualitative data on endothermic (heat absorption) and exothermic (heat release) processes of materials during physical transitions that are caused by phase changes, melting, 结晶、氧化和其他与热有关的变化. 仪器允许 DSC测量在30 ^oC – 700 ^oC温度范围. 该仪器与控制器（计算机）配合工作。 和PROTEUS分析软件组成热分析系统.