Facilities

In-House Facilities and Equipment, currently under construction at UCSD:

  • In-House X-ray Source (RIGAKU)
  • X-ray compatible Surface Force Apparatus
  • Laser Photon Correlation Spectroscopy setup (Brewster Angle Microscopy and Langmuir Monolayer Trough)
  • Optical Ptychography Microscopy Setup
  • Ulta high vacuum equipment
  • Liquid He flow 4K cryostat
  • Enviromental chamber for in-situ wetting film studies

Gallery of recent experiments: More Galleries

National User Facilities:

In addition to in-house facilities at UCSD our research relies on state-of-the-art national facilities, primarily Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab and Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley.

Below are the list of these and other facilities:

Advanced Photon Source (APS),
Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL
Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS),
Stanford, CA
to open in 2009
Advanced Light Source (ALS),
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS),
Brookhaven National Lab, Brookhaven, NY
Spillation Neutron Source (SNS),
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
to open in 2007
Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM),
Argonne National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-2),
Brookhaven National Lab, Brookhaven, NY
to open in 2013
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL),
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA