Equipment

Cooperation Offer

We offer research in the following areas:

• Measurement of time-resolved spectra, femtosecond spectroscopy
• Fluorescence spectroscopy (FLS980 spectrometer)
• IR and Raman spectroscopy
• Refractive index (n) measurements
• Absorption measurements
• Emission quantum yield measurements
• Thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, and radioluminescence measurements
• Emission and excitation spectra measurements in the vacuum UV range (McPherson spectrophotometer)

Details: OSO service catalog

Equipment

1. FT-Raman MultiRAM spectrometer (Bruker) with a 1064 nm excitation line and built-in polarizer for measuring Raman spectra in the range of 3600–50 cm^–1
2. FT-Raman RFS 100/S spectrometer (Bruker) with a 1064 nm excitation line for measuring Raman spectra in the range of 3600–80 cm^–1, 5–300 K
3. iS50 NicoletTM FTIR spectrometer (Thermo Fisher) for measurements of transmission, reflection, and ATR spectra in the near-, mid-, and far-infrared ranges, 12500–50 cm^–1, 5–850 K
4. iN10 NicoletTM FTIR Microscope (Thermo Fisher) for measurements of transmission, reflection, ATR spectra, and mapping in the mid-infrared range, 4000–400 cm^–1, 80–850 K
5. Femtosecond laser (Coherent Model “Libra”), coupled to an optical parametric amplifier (Light Conversion Model “OPerA”). This system is able to deliver a train of 100 fs pulses with a repetition rate up to 1kHz and a pulse wavelength between 230 – 2800 nm. The resulting luminescence is analyzed with a grating spectrograph (Princeton Instr. Model Acton 2500i) coupled to a streak camera (Hamamatsu Model C5680) which operates in the 200 – 1100 nm spectral region with a temporal resolution of 50 ps.
6. Surelite I-10 Continuum Nd:YAG laser, pulse repetition 1- 10 Hz (λ’ = 1064 nm, , P = 4,6 W; λ’’ = 532 nm, P = 2,4 W; λ’’’ = 355 nm, P = 0,9 W)
7. Continuum Surelite I optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped by a third harmonic of Nd:YAG, output pulses in 400-2800 nm region
8. Dongwoo Optron Spectrofluorometer consisting of a Xenon lamp DLI180, an DM152i excitation monochromator with 150 mm focal length, a DM711 emission monochromator with 750 mm focal length PMT, Hamamatsu R3896, Hamamatsu R5108 PMT, AlGaAs, and PbS detectors
9. Oxford model CF 1204 continuous flow helium cryostat equipped with a temperature controller
10. Confocal system for measuring light emission from single nanoparticles. The system consists of:
    1. Optical inverted microscope Nikon Eclipse Ti2e, immersion lens CFI HP Plan Apo VC 100X/1.40 NA and Plan Fluor 20X/0.50
    2. Nanopositioning piezoelectric XYZ scanner Physik Instrumente (PI) P-545.3R8H XYZ
       1. Travel ranges: 200 µm x 200 µm x 200 µm
       2. Resolution in closed loop: 1nm
    3. ANDOR Kymera 193i-B1-SIL spectrograph with a confocal setup on second port
    4. Deeply cooled EMCCD camera ANDOR iXon Ultra 888
    5. Time-correlated single photon counter/tagger (TCSPC) quTools quTAU (H+)
    6. Single photon detection units 2x HAMAMATSU H7828
    7. Single transverse mode laser diodes 405 nm (150 mW) and 450 nm (80 mW)
11. FLS980 Edinburgh Instruments spectrophotometer in Czerny-Turner configuration with VIS and NIR detectors for measurements of excitation spectra, emission and kinetics of luminescence in a wide range of temperatures (77-300 K).
12. JobinYvon THR1000 monochromator with photomultipliers (R928, R406) with the optical range: 300-2000 nm, resolution: 0.01 nm (VIS). Pulsed Nd: YAG Laser System LS-2137 / 2M, basic wavelength FF (1064 nm), the second harmonic SH (532 nm), and a generator of harmonics (SH / 532 nm, TH / 355 nm, FH / 266 nm) -- LS-2137 / 2M add-on for laser system, Ti3 +: Al2O3 add-on using Nd: YAG laser to get the laser radiation in the range of 345-500 nm and 690-1000 nm.
13. Fully automated TL/OSL Reader lexsygresearch (Freiberg Instruments) equipped with CCD camera for Thermo- and Optically stimulated luminescence and Radioluminescence in temperature range from -50 to 500 C in air, vacuum, and nitrogen atmosphere
14. Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission (ICP-OES) spectroscopy (THERMO SCIENTIFIC ICAP 7000) equipped with a high performance microwave digestion system (ETHOS UP)
15. Universal spectroradiometer with 50 cm integrating sphere for luminous flux of white light sources BTS256-LED .
16. Semiconductor laser diodes 266 nm, 405 nm 455 nm, 650 nm, 808 nm, 940 nm, 975 nm, 1064 nm, 1550 nm
17. NIRQUEST+2.5 Spectrometer for measurement of emission spectra in range 900-2500 nm
18. Radiation coherence measurement stand
19. VUV Macpherson spectrophotometer (measurements region 120 – 1700 nm)
20. FLS1000 Photoluminescence Spectrometer, Edinburgh Instruments (https://www.edinst.com/products/fls1000-photoluminescence-spectrometer/)
21. Hamamatsu PMA-12 spectrophotometer,
22. Integration spheres for Quantum Yield measurements
23. Ti Saphire lasers with second harmonics
24. Nd: YAG lasers with second, third, and fourth harmonics