Equipment

Simulations

 

FDTD

MEEP

FIT, FEM

CST

Ray tracing

Zemax

8 Workstations (2 Intel Gold CPUs, 3.6 GHz, 4 Cores and 192 GB RAM each)

2 GPU computing cluster (2 NVIDIA Quadro GP100 (3582 shader, 16 GB HBM2) and with 192 GB and 384 GB RAM)

 

2 GPU computing cluster (2x4 Nvidia Tesla C2070)

CAD Network

Light sources

 

Q-switched Nd:YAG laser and THG pumped OPO (355 nm – 2.5 µm)

 

High performance CW tunable laser sources with 1260 nm – 1640 nm wavelength range

Agilent

Femtosecond laser (100fs, 100mW, 100MHZ, 1550nm)

Menlo

ASE sources (40 mW and 100 mW,  1525 – 1605nm)

Amonics

Supercontinuum source (500 mW, 460nm - 2400nm )

NKT Photonics (Coheras)

Supercontinuum MIR source (1.1-4.2 µm, 450W)

NKT Photonics

Solar Simulator (AAA, 50x50 mm)

Enli Technology

Optical setups

 

Photoelectrochemical setup (295-1020 nm, QE/IPCE/PCS, 10µHz-12 MHz)

Zahner

Pump-probe setup (two pulses, 1530-1580nm, 1-10ps)

Menlo

Automatic nanometer positioning system for fiber to chip coupling

Melles Griot

External Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

 

Teng-Man measurement setup (Pockels effect)

 

Spectrometers

 

Spectroscopic ellipsometer (193 nm – 25 nm, mapping X-Y 200 mm, photometry, Mueller matrix, heat stage 1000 °C, vacuum 1e-2 mbar, electrochemical cell, porosimetry)

Semilab

Fluorimeter (detector 200-870 nm, 450 W xenon, pulsed lasers 405-640 nm, excitation double monochromator, integrating sphere, 2 ns to 50 µs decay time)

Hamamatsu, Edinburgh Instruments

FTIR Spectrometer (800nm-20µm, integrating Sphere, variable angle Reflection - 13°-83°C, extra MCT detector)

Bruker

FTIR-Microscope (10x, 36x, Grazing incidence)

Bruker

UV-Vis-NIR Spectrometer (200nm-3300nm, incl. integrating sphere and variabel angle Reflection and Transmission)

Perkin Elmer

Vis-NIR CCD-Spectrometer for optical microscope

Zeiss, A.S. & Co

Czerny-Turner monochromator with detectors (1.6-12µm, with fiber adapter)

HORIBA Jobin Yvon

High resolution optical spectrum analyzers (600-1750nm)

Ando

Optical monochromator (1/4m)

 

Thermal analysis

 

Heating stage with vacuum ports (1500°C, 1e-3mbar, 7mm diameter, sapphire windows)

Linkam

Vacuum furnice (2000°C, 1e-6mbar, 90x50mm)

RDWebb

Hot disc thermal conductivity setup (0.005-1.2 W/mK, RT-1000°C or vacuum 1e-6mbar)

Hot Disk

Laser Flash Analyzer (0.001-10cm2/s, 1600°C, 1e-5mbar)

Linseis

Surface analysis

 

Surface profilometer

Dektak

Confocal laser scanning microscope (405nm laser, z-resolution <10nm)

Zeiss

Sample preparation / manufacturing

 

Clean room (class 100)

 

Spin-Coater

 

Vacuum drying ovens

 

Mask aligner

Karl Süss

Electron beam evaporator (chrome, gold, silver, aluminum)

Leybold

Thermal evaporator (gold)

Leybold

RF and DC sputtering

Leybold

PECVD

 

Two-photon polymerisation 3D laser lithography (Galvo-scanner, Photoresists: IP-L, IP-G, IP-Dipp; 100X objective, 63X air objective, Dip-in objective)

Nanoscribe

Other equipment

 

Gas chromatography (H2, 10 ppm, O2, 10 ppm)

S+H Analytik

Critical point drier

Science Services

Broadand dielectric measurement system (mHz-10GHz)

 

InGaAs – NIR camera

Allied Vision Technologies