Resources
Characterization Techniques and Processing
- FTIR (Ashley David)
- DSC (Alan Liu)
- XRD (Austin Flick)
- Soxhlet Extraction (Alan Liu)
- SEM, TEM, FIB (Abby Carbone)
- Human Tissue Processing (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
Mechanical Testing
- DCB (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- Nanoindentation (Alan Liu)
- Wafer Curvature (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- Kinetic Impactor (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- Bulge Testing (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- Adhesion testing (Alan Liu)
- Instron (Alan Liu)
Atmospheric Pressure Plasma
- CCP (Surfx)
- Plasma Jet (PlasmaTreat)
- Conical Nozzle
- Slot Nozzle
Contact Austin Flick
Thin-Film Deposition
- Ultrasonic Spray Coating
- Open-Air CVD
- Thermal Evaporator
- Spin Coating
- Air Blade
Contact Austin Flick
Thermal Processing
- Inert Gas Oven (Max 600 oC)
- Vacuum Oven (Max 300 oC)
- High Temperature Hot Plate (Max 600 oC)
- Large Area Near Infrared Flash Curing (Max 300 oC)
- Small Area Near Infrared Flash Curing With Air
Contact Thomas William Colburn
Environmental Aging Chambers
- Heat/Humidity Control
- Thermal Cycling
- UV Exposure
- 1-sun Exposure
- Perovskite Degradation Imaging Chamber
Contact William Cai, Justin Chen
Solar Testing Suite
- Solar simulators
- LBIC
- 4-pt probe
- EQE
- CV
- Keyence
Contact Justin Chen
Manufacturing Sample Processing
- 3D Printing (Alan Liu)
- Laser Cutting (Gabriel Badillo Crane)
- Conventional Machining (Gabriel Badillo Crane)
Computational
- Abaqus (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- LAMMPS (Alan Liu)
- Sherlock (Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez)
- MATLAB (Alan Liu)
- Machine Learning (William Cai)
- Python (Alan Liu)
- Github (Alan Liu)
Equipment
The Dauskardt lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University is equipped with extensive capabilities for materials synthesis, processing, high-resolution micromechanical testing, chemical and nanostructural characterization, and computational modeling.
Synthesis
- Full wet chemical synthetic capabilities for precursor synthesis
- Sol-gel processing including spin-stations, dip and spraying capabilities
- Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
- Atmospheric plasma deposition system with heated vaporizer (conductive coupling plasma systems and dielectric discharge barrier plasma systems)
- Inert gas and vacuum oven together with UV ozone surface cleaning capabilities
- Inert nitrogen glovebox for solution-processing of organic and perovskite solar cells
- Additional extensive PVD, PE-CVD, lithography, etching, and spin-coating capabilities through the Center for Integrated Systems
- Complete analytical services, including DTA, DSC, Density, etc.
Mechanical Testing
- Ultra high-resolution, micro-mechanical testing system equipped with either manual or piezoelectric translators (displacement resolution of < 10 nm) with in situ optical microscopy, AFM and high speed data acquisition and computer control
- Environmental control chamber for adhesion and cohesion testing (inert gas, 0.1 - 100% R.H. and aqueous environments, high temperature to 300oC) and high speed data acquisition and control
- Environmental control systems with in situ UV irradiation with controlled wavelength for adhesion and cohesion testing (inert gas, 0.1 - 100% R.H., high temperature stability) and high speed data acquisition and control
- Strain and displacement measuring systems for fully automated compliance and crack length measurement
- High-resolution digital optical imaging and photographic equipment with precision positioning
- Nano indentation systems and wafer curvature testing systems with environmental control
- Surface acoustic wave (SAWS) capabilities for elastic property measurements
Nano-Characterization
- Scanning and atomic resolution transmission electron microscopes
- Focused Ion Beam capabilities
- Raman and fluorescence microprobe analysis for phase and strain (stress) measurement
- X-ray diffraction facilities including reflectivity
- Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes
- XPS, FTIR, SIMS facilities
- NMR facilities with MAS
Computation Capabilities
- The Dauskardt group has a cluster of gigabit switch networked servers (48 cpus).
- The Dauskardt group owns two nodes (each with 24 cpus) in high performance computing cluster Sherlock which is operated by the Stanford Research Computing Center.
Shared Facilities
- SNF
- X-Ray Lab
- SMF
- PRL
Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF)
The Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF) is a group of service centers (Nanofabrication, Electron & Ion Microscopy, X-ray & Surface Analysis and Soft & Hybrid Materials) that includes the Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, the Nanopatterning Lab, the Ginzton Microfab, and the Soft and Hybrid Materials Facility. SNSF’s purpose is to provide shared scientific instrumentation, laboratory facilities, and expert staff support to enable multidisciplinary research and educate tomorrow's scientists and engineers.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF)
The SNF Facility includes a 10,000 sq ft cleanroom equipped with a full suite of tools supporting device fabrication and two satellite labs supporting Metallo Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and new experimental fabrication methods (ExFab). Although conceived as an electronics-based research facility, SNF now supports researchers in applications ranging from medicine and biology to fundamental physics and astronomy.