Equipment List for:

• Physics
• General Facilities
• Biology
• Chemistry

In Physics:

• The Mark Evans Observatory:

• 16-inch Cassegrain telescope, CCD camera

• Research Level Instrumentation:

• Very Low Noise Voltage Preamplifier (Stanford Research Systems SR560)
• 100 kHz Dual Channel Programmable Filter, with GPIB (Stanford Research Systems SR650)
• Programmable High Voltage Supply, 0 - 5 kV (positive or negative polarity), low output ripple, GPIB (Stanford Research Systems SR350)
• Programmable Digital SourceMeter, 10 pA - 1 Amp sourcing, low noise (Keithley 2400), GPIB
• Liquid Helium Level Sensor and Meter (American Magnetics 110A)
• 20-Channel Scanning Multimeter (Keithley 2000-20), GPIB
• NanoVoltmeter/Micro-Ohm Meter (HP 34420A), GPIB
• Lock-In Amplifier (PAR 7260 250 kHz Digital Dual-Phase), GPIB
• RF Generator (HP-8647A, Freq Range 250 kHz - 1 GHz), GPIB
• Sweep Oscillator (HP-8620A, Freq Range 0.1 - 2 GHz), GPIB
• 500 MHz Digital Scope (HP 54615B, w/ FFT module), GPIB
• Spectrum Analyzer (200 kHz bandwidth)
• Electrometers (Keithley 614)
• Tenma Universal Test Centers (Freq. Counter, Func. Gen., Power Supply, DMM)
• Low-noise High Voltage Power Supply (Oxford Instruments TC 952A), GPIB
• Graphics Plotter with GPIB Control (HP-9872B)

• Electromagnets (Multiple, including programmable)

• Bell Gaussmeters (Longitudinal & Transverse)

• Cryogenics & Vacuum:

• Helium-3 Cryostat, with hermitically-sealed pump and manifold
• Liquid Helium Research Dewar, with superinsulation, with baffle insert; for pumping bath below 1.5 K (Precision Cryogenics)
• Ruthenium Oxide Thermometers, calibrated down to 0.050K (Scientific Instruments)
• "Mr. SQUID" (a Superconducting QUantum Interference Device)
• Lakeshore 340 Temperature Controller, with GPIB and expansion card for two additional inputs
• Insertion Cryostat (goes to 4.2 K)
• Closed-cycle Helium Cryostat w/ Optical Access (goes to 10 K)
• MMR channel-plate cooler (goes down to 80 K, low vibration)
• (Glass Dewars, some with "fingers" for insertion into magnet)
• Leak Detector/Vacuum Station (with cold head and Calibrated Leak)
• Diffusion & Mechanical Pumps
• Plasma Chamber

• Single Wafer Spin Processor, with High Speed Option (up to 8000 rpm) and Controller (Laurell Technologies WS-400-A6NPP-Lite)
• 1200 °C Tube Furnace (Lindberg Type 55035, 1-inch tube diameter)
• 1100 °C Box Furnace

• Scanning Tunneling Microscope & Atomic Force Microscope/Magnetic Force Microscope/Friction-Force Microscope--Fully Upgraded

• A variety of AFM & MFM cantilevers
• Bungee-based Vibration Isolation system

• 3' x 5' TMC Vibration Isolation Air-Table & associated components
• Holographic Optical Tweezer Apparatus (Home-built)

• Raman Spectrometer (Chromex 250 Raman One Imaging Spectrograph w/ optical fiber probe & SBIG ST-6 CCD Camera)
• High-Resolution Germanium Gamma Ray Detector, with dewar (Canberra GR-1020)
• Spectrum Analyzer (Coherent 240)

• A Scanning monochromator
• Hamamatsu x8267 programmable phase modulator

• 5-Watt Coherent Verdi-V5, CW, 532 nm laser
• 20 mW He-Ne laser
• 10 mW Hughes He-Ne lasers

• (6) 5 mW Spectra-Physics lasers

• Several high intensity UV sources (Xenon and Mercury arcs), including Deep UV

• HP "Zeeman split" lasers
• (2) Green Lasers

• Multiple Diode Lasers (w/ collimating optics)
• Photometers and Laser Power Meters

• Research Spectrometers and Spectrographs

• Spherometers (to measure radius of curvature of lenses)
• Camcorder: Panasonic AG-195 P
• VCR: Panasonic PV-4409
• Digital Video Microscopy Suite:
• Olympus IX71 Inverted Research Microscope System with Analog and Digital CCD Cameras
• Yunnan XSB 411 with Sony SSC-C350 Color CCD Camera
• High Numerical Aperture Objectives

• Research-level Data Acquisition Computers

• Silicon Graphics 320 Visual Workstation (multi-processors, 800 Mb RAM)
• Fast DAQ Cards (Data Aquisition Cards), both 12-bit 500 kSa/s and 16-bit 100 kSa/s
• GPIB Data Acquisition (General Purpose Interface Bus)
• GPIB-to-RS-232 Adapter
• Video Capture/Frame Grabbers (IMAQ card, WinVision 2307 card, G3 cards)
• LabVIEW (Virtual Instruments)
• KaleidaGraph, Scientist (Curve-fitting software)
• Mathematica Site License
• IDL for image analysis
• PhotoShop, PhotoFinish
• ANSYS Finite Element Analysis Software and CAD Programs
• Microsoft Visual Studio Site License (includes Visual Basic, C++, J++, etc)

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General Facilities:

• Sun Workstations -- These include Mathematica, Fortran, C, C++, etc.; moving to adopt IDL for image analysis.

• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) lab:

• An "Environmental" SEM, usable at pressures as high as 2 Torr, with External Scan Control (for e-beam lithography)
• Gold/Palladium Sputter Coater
• Critical Point Dryer
• Large Working Distance Optical Zoom Microscope
• Darkroom

• JEOL Eclipse 270 MHz FT-NMR

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In Biology:

• Micromanipulators:

• Zoom Microscopes

• Video-Linked Microscope

• Wild Dissecting Microscope: A research grade dissecting microscope

• Leitz Microscope: A research grade microsope with the capability of differential- interference contrast microscopy that is equipped with an automatic camera

• In Animal Physiology - stimulators, transducers, and recording equipment, virtual instruments on a Power Macintosh

• In Developmental Biology - Nikon microscopes, a surgical dissecting microscope and other equipment necessary for various microsurgical techniques

• In General Biology - Compound light microscopes (Nikon) and dissecting microscopes

• In Molecular Biology - refrigerated centrifuge, an ultracold freezer, several constant temperature water baths, a shaking growth incubator, micropipettors, submarine gel electrophoresis equipment, DNA sequencing equipment, and electrophoresis equipment for SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis

• In Plant Biology - Nikon Microscopes and Meiji Dissecting Scopes, constant temperature incubators and a shaking water bath incubator.

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In Chemistry:

• Old Varian Anaspec EM360 NMR spectrometer (60 MHz; Ask for it for MRFM)
• Refractometer (Bauch & Lomb)
• 1100 °C Box Furnace (Blue M)

• Labline VACUUM Furnace
• (3) High Pressure Hydrogenation Chambers
• Oxygen tank & blowtorch

• Labconco Glove Box (currently empty)
• Thermal Conductivity Detectors
• Lotsa Chart Recorders (e.g., HP 7040A)

• High Voltage DC Power Supply (1-3000V, 20 mA)
• Several high intensity UV sources (Xenon and Mercury arcs)
• UV Chamber ("Photochemical Reactor") Southern New England UV Co

• RPR-100 (doesn't have the Deep UV)
• UV "Visualization" chamber
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer w/ Cell Temperature Control (Shimadzu UV-1601)

• Melting Point Apparatus
• Brinkman Rotavapor (Evaporate w/o boiling)
• New Welch DuoSeal 1450 Mechanical Pump

• PAR Model 174A Polarographic Analyzer (Potential Scan; Microelectrodes)
• Varian Model 1100 Atomic Absorption/Flame Emission Spectrophotometer (due to be replaced; not a trace method, needs 5-10 ml soln w/ 5-10 ppm; won't work w/ all metals (it depends upon whether we have the right lamp for it, although we can buy more - at $300-$500 per lamp)
• Mattson Genesis Series FT-IR (also have a slower Dispersive IR)

• Cary Model 1 BIO UV-Vis (transmission) Spectrophotometer
• Jarrell Ash Motorized Monochrometer
• Old UV monochrometer (Beckman Model DU)

• Perkin Elmer LS50 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer (UV/Vis; has "front-surface" attachment)
• Liquid Chromatography Systems (separate by differential solubility/absorption onto silica gel, mostly organics)
• Hewlett-Packard Model 1090 High Performance LC

• Waters Assoc. LC w/ M45 and M6000A pumps, 441 Absorbance detector and 680 Gradient Controller (this one is better than the HP 1090)
• Gas Chromatographs (separate by vapor pressure)
• HP 5890A Dual Column GC w/ TCD and Flame Ionization detectors

• HP 6890 GC equipped with an NPD detector
• HP 6890 GC equipped with an Electron Capture detector
• HP 6890 GC equipped with an Mass Selective Detector (GC-MS)

• 2 GowMac Series 350 GCs
• Temp. Bath (Heat or Cool) -- Precision R40 GCA, Forma 2095-2
• Sterilizer
• Pope LN2 Dewar

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