Facilities

1. Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) + LEED, Auger, etc
2. Ultrahigh Vacuum Electron Beam Deposition
3. RF Sputtering System
4. UHV Sputtering system (5 guns, RHEED, thickness monitor, Ar sputtering gun)
5. Electrochemistry setup
6. Rapid Thermal Annealing system
7.  e-beam writer - with 40 nm resolution
8. Photolithography setup with Suss mask aligner  Ion etcher
9. Clean Room class 100 with optical photolithography setup

1. Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX - 5 nm resolution for SEM
2. Atomic Force Microscope with Magnetic Force Microscopy - Veeco system
3.  X-ray Diffraction - SmartLab Rigaku (see more details below)
4.  Brucker VERTEX 70 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer
5. Vector Network Analyzers + probe stations (up to 110 GHz)
6. Spectrum Analyzer (up to 50 GHz)
7. Ferromagnetic Resonance (FMR) 10, 24, 35, 45, and 55 GHz cavity based systems
8. SQUID magnetometer with closed cycle He cooling (Quantum Design)
9. Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) system, 1-1000 GHz
10. Magneto - Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) system
11. Dynamic Light Scattering
12. UV-vis Spectrometer
13. Fluorescent spectroscopy
14. Broad-band Ferromagnetic Resonance system (up to 70 GHz and 28 - 350 K range)

We have all equipment for the production and characterization of electo-optical (liquid crystal) devices and materials research.  In addition, we have:

1. Dielectric spectroscopy
2. Optical polarized microscopy
3. Electro-optic characterization
4. Ball milling for production of ferroelectric and other nanoparticles  

Machine shop with one technician, including CNC mill and lathe.

See the Biofrontiers Center website for more equipment used by the Physics department.

UCCS has a Rigaku SmartLab multipurpose X-ray system.  Capabilities include:

• standard X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Grazing incidence XRD
• In-plane XRD
• X-ray Reflectivity (XRR)
• High Temperature XRD
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)

For further information,  contact  Zbigniew Celinski, UCCS Physics Department,  zcelinsk@uccs.edu,  719-255-3583.