Equipment List
Laboratory and Fabrication Facilities
Laboratory and fabrication facilities are currently in place to undertake a variety of testing, analysis, and development tasks. On-site fabrication capabilities allow for the quick adaptation and construction of specialized test fixtures and unique assemblies. A partial listing of the equipment and facilities available is presented below.
Fabrication and Precision Assembly
- Hardinge lathe with Sony Magnescale precision positioning control.
- 2 Jeweler’s lathes and mill.
- Grinder and polisher.
- 4 Spot welders.
- Laminar flow bench and clean area.
- Clean room air particulate measurement capability.
- Humidity measurement and control.
- Ultrasonic clean.
- Micro-manipulator station with microprobes.
- Unitek Micropull wire-bond tester.
Vacuum Systems
- 4 Turbo-molecular pumped systems (Leybold, Seiko-Seiki, Pfeiffer/Balzers) with multiple access ports using Conflat flanges.
- Varian leak tester.
- In-vacuum micro-manipulator.
- Thin-film evaporator.
- Altitude chamber.
Optical Inspection and Measurement
- 4 Stereo inspection microscopes.
- Mitutoyo (20x – 2000x) long focus microscope with precision positioning stage.
- Nikon Optiphot polarization microscope.
- Leitz SM-LUX-HL midroscope.
- Fiber optic illumination sources.
- Resolution targets.
- CIE coordinate digital colorimeters.
- Minolta and Tektronix wide and narrow angle photometers for contrast and luminance measurements.
- 3 Nikon D-90 digital cameras.
- Projection and light valve systems optics.
- Linear and circular polarization capability.
- KLC precision adjustable retarder.
- Variable frequency light valves.
- Lenses and lens mounts.
- Ultraviolet and narrow band sources.
- Low noise optical signal detectors (diode and photo-multiplier).
- Large format cameras and lenses.
- Wet chemistry darkroom.
Electrical Testing capability
- Digital and Real time oscilloscopes to 1+ GHz.
- Sampling oscilloscopes to 12+ GHz.
- Time domain reflectometry to <25 ps.
- Precision audio and RF spectrum analyzers.
- Frequency counters to 26.5 GHz.
- CW signal sources to 2.5 GHz.
- Pulse generators to 100+ volts and to <25 ps.
- Arbitrary waveform generator.
- TV and video waveform generators .
- 3 Transistor curve tracers.
- 2 Automated multi-frequency LCR measurement systems.
- 2 Keithley Electrometers.
- Multi-frequency magnetic field measurement capability .
- High voltage probes to 40+ kV.
- Current probes to 50 MHz.
- Chart recorders.
- Multiple laboratory power supplies up to 30 kV.
- 4 High-voltage Trek amplifiers to 10 kV.
- Precision temperature measurement – thermocouple, infrared, and optical.