Our lab’s equipment
General (Fume hood, oven, hot plates, sonicator, microscopes, glove box, tools, etc)
Chemical vapour deposition system
Electron microscope
Electronics (low- and high-voltage power supplies, oscilloscopes, waveform generator, sensitive source-meters, lock-in amplifier, etc)
High-vacuum and ultra-high-vacuum characterization systems (equipped with micrometer stage, nanomanipulator, electron source, detector, energy analyzer, phosphor screen, pre-treatment chamber)
Lasers (visible, ultraviolet and infrared; solid state and gas; continuous-wave and femtosecond pulsed)
Optics (optical spectrum analyzer, solar simulator, low-power handheld lasers, optical tables, delay line, power meter, lenses, mirrors, polarizers, micrometer stages, posts, polarizers, beam splitters, fibers, couplers, etc.)
Shared experimental facilities
In addition to the above, we are fortunate to have access to several shared facilities on the UBC campus for general nanofabrication and characterization:
Nanofabrication cleanroom and scanning probe microscopy: AMPEL Nanofabrication Facility
Electron microscopy: BioImaging Facility, Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Focused ion beam: Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics
In addition, we can access various other MiNa-affiliated groups’ equipment through collaborations.
Computational facilities
For our computational needs, in addition to in-house computers, we rely on the various supercomputers of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, which are extremely powerful and have a vast array of simulation packages ranging from mathematics tools to optoelectronics, quantum-chemistry and condensed-matter physics software.