Custom Hall effect station for thin film characterization
Thermo‐scientific Nicolet IS5 FTIR
Two handheld FLIR imaging systems, FLIR E95 high resolution and calibrated and smart‐phone ready FLIR One Pro
Computational Resources
More than 20 high-performance workstations (most are Intel i7/i9 or Xeon 16 to 32‐core), each 3 GHz or higher, with 64, 256, or 512 GB of ram
Full access to Baylor’s HPC with 128 nodes of dual Xeon 5355s with 16 GB ram per blade (Baylor resource)
Materials Fabrication/Processing
Custom Large Area Manufacturing deposition system for capable of 25 lb/hour deposition rates and pelletized carbon fiber reinforced composites with a 4’ x 4’ by 3’ build area and heated platen
K‐Lab Magnetron sputter system for Thin Film Electronic/Flexible Polymers
Multiple vacuum pump systems (VARTM) for fabricating laminated composites
5 standard fume hoods (2 – 48” width, 2 – 60” width, 1 – 72” width), one highly acidic fume hood with ultrafine (SWNT scale) particle filtration, and one glove box mounted to the fume hood exhaust
CTE M7000 Constant Speed Mixer, API Spec 10
ExOn 8, 12 lb/hr extruder with custom translation system for large volume additive manufacturing
Strangepress, 25 lb/hr extruder with custom translation system for large volume additive manufacturing
Brabender drive with single screw extruder and 60 mL mixer
Ross mixing unit
DSM X‐Plore Injection molding machine
Makerbot Replicator 2, 2x, and 5, and multiple custom 3D Printers
Two Form3 3D SLS 3D printers with UV curing chambers
Grizzly G0796 knee mill with DRO with a build volume of 12” x 29” x 16”
Compression molding 60-ton hot press
CNC with 4 axis capability (dept. resource)
Object and Dimension 3D printers (dept. resource)
Sample Preparation and Measurement Devices
Blue M LO‐225 Programmable Oven –Interior Dims. 24” x 20” x 30”
Thermo‐fisher oven – Interior Dims. 18" x 16" x 24"
Carbolitebarrel furnace 3” diameter x 10” cylindrical zone capable of 1400 K with a programmable controller
Programmable box furnace is capable of 2000 degC‐ Interior Dims. 12” x 10” x 8”
Plasma Etch PE50‐HF
Buehler EcoMet Grinder‐Polisher and Buehler IsoMet Low Speed Saw
JEOL Smart Coater
Multiple National Instruments Data Acquisition cards and chassis
Agilent Oscilloscopes and Programmable Power Supplies
Four 5 cu. Ft. environmental chambers (35 degF to 120 degF and 0.5% RH to 95% RH)
One 5 cu ft hot‐wet environmental chamber (ambient to 175 degF 80% RH to 98%RH)
Graphtec GL820 (200 channels) and GL200 (10 channels) data loggers
Ametek NIST tracible thermal calibration block
Multiple National Instruments DAQ Chassis for data collection
Agilent Oscilloscopes (1 GHz) with function generators
Agilent high‐precision (nV) multimeter
Agilent AC‐DC high‐resolution low noise power supplies