Facilities and Equipment
In Chemistry, we currently have a number of deposition reactors:
- A small hot filament reactor for studies of unusual gas chemistries.
- Another small hot filament reactor for laser spectroscopy studies.
- A small hot filament reactor for producing boron-doped diamond films.
- a larger hot filament reactor dedicated to deposition onto wires and fibres.
- a 1.5 kW Microwave PECVD reactor, with in situ mass spectroscopy diagnostics.
- a UV excimer laser ablation reactor for deposition of doped DLC (or ta-C) films.
- a Nd:YAG laser ablation system for production of nanoparticles via a liquid phase ablation method.
- a 2 kW microwave plasma system (donated by Element Six) for plasma diagnostic studies.
We also have:
- A Renishaw 2000 laser Raman spectrometer (UV, green and IR wavelengths).
- Cavity ring-down spectroscopy equipment for laser diagnostics.
- Ellipsometer for measurements of film thickness and optical properties.
- Evaporator for making metal contacts onto diamond films.
- Optical emission spectroscopy equipment, both high and low resolution, for plasma diagnostics.
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and TEM analysis available within the Chemistry building.
