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Magnetic Properties Laboratory, Naushad Ali. The lab includes a SQUID magnetometer, high-temperature ovens, a diamond cutting saw, assorted other magnetometers and a variable temperature electrical resistance measurement setup.

Rob Tomek inspects the sputering chamber in Dr. Aouadi's lab.

Thin-Film Laboratory, Samir Aouadi. The lab includes a sputter coater, a spectroscopic ellipsometer, a wear tester, and a spectrograph.

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The Nanosensor and Microscopy Laboratory, Andrei Kolmakov. The lab has chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) systems for nanowire growth, a high-resolution optical microscopy and micro-spectroscopy system, the variable pressure and variable temperature probe stations for electron transport measurements on individual nanostructures, and the variable temperature and variable pressure STM/AFM microscopes.

VIPs exmine tiles made from industrial byproducts in Dr. Malhotra's lab. The Applied Materials and Spectroscopy Laboratory, Vik Malhotra. The lab includes four Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers (one coupled with a high-temperature reactor and another with such attachments as a photoacoustic cell system, a grazing angle, a specular reflectance, three diffuse reflectance systems, an attenuated reflectance, a transmission high-temperature system, transmission low-temperature systems, and various gas cells), an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer, a Perkin-Elmer diamond differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) system with low-temperature capabilities, a TGA/DTA system, and a differential thermal analyzer (DTA7) system, two grinding mills, two combustion tube assembly systems, two diamond saws, two 900-watt microwave oven systems, four high-temperature, high-pressure presses for fabricating composites; and stainless steel dies for fabricating composites of various sizes.

Studnets Luke Heroux and Brad Musik go over an experimental setup in Dr. Migone's lab.

The Low Temperature Laboratory, Aldo Migone. The lab has six automated, variable-temperature, volumetric adsorption setups (one with high-pressure capabilities), a helium mass-spectrometer leak detector, a tube furnace, a vacuum oven, and a setup for ac calorimetry measurements and ac thermal diffusivity measurements.

The Low Temperature and Electrical Conductance Laboratory, Tom Masden.

The Magnetic Thin Film Laboratory, Shane Stadler. is equipped with a Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) setup, an X-ray apparatus, a magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) instrument and a point contact Andreev reflectivity (PCAR) system.

Theoretical

Dr. Frank Gaitan at work in his office.