Facilities

A turbo-pumped UHV surface analysis system:

• EXTREL Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS)
• OMICRON Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) system
• VARIAN Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) system
• Retractable pinhole doser (0.1 mm diameter)
• Ion gun for sputtering

Laser systems:

• LAMBDA PHYSIK COMPex Excimer Laser (193-351nm UV range depending on rare-gas-halides)
• LAMBDA PHYSIK LPX Excimer Laser (193-351nm UV range depending on rare-gas-halides)
• LAMBDA PHYSIK FL 3002 Dye Laser (332-970nm range)
• Ti:Sapphire Oscillator:
  •  Coherent Mantis. Broadband Ti:Sapphire oscillator with integrated optically pumped semiconductor laser
  •  Coherent Mira-Seed. Femtosecond mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser
• Ultrafast laser amplifier:
  •  Coherent RegA 9050 Ti:Sapphire amplifier
•  Pump lasers:
  •  Coherent Verdi 10W diode-pumped laser
  • Spectra Physics Millenia V
• Optical Parametric Amplifier:
  •  Coherent OPA 9450 with visible and IR output beams
• Second-Harmonic Generation systems to yield UV pulses (245-340 nm, 400 nm)
• Excimer laser systems
  • LAMBDA PHYSIK COMPex Excimer Laser (193-351nm UV range depending onrare-gas-halides)
  •  LAMBDA PHYSIK LPX Excimer Laser (193-351nm UV range depending onrare-gas-halides)
  •  LAMBDA PHYSIK FL 3002 Dye Laser (332-970nm range)

Data acquisition/analysis systems:

• SRS Multichannel Scaler for time-of-flight quadrupole mass spectrometry (TOF-QMS) experiments
• NI Multifunction Data Acquisition (DAQ) Device for temperature programmed desorption (TPD) experiments
• NI LabVIEW for temperature programmed desorption (TPD) program