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Resources

Facilities

Microscopes 2 GHz frequency domain photoacoustic microscope
Innova IRIS Integrated AFM and Raman microscope
Apertureless near-field optical microscope
Laser sources Intensity modulated Erbium-doped fiber laser (1550 nm)
Neodymium yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) pulsed laser (1064 nm, pulse width = 1ns, pulse repetition frequency =1kHz, peak energy per pulse = 1mJ)
Nd: YAG continuous wave lasers, (532 nm, peak power = 200mW)
Detectors High-Speed photo-detectors for IR and visible wavelengths (Bandwidth:1 GHz)
Avalanche photo-detector (Bandwidth = 50 MHz and 5MHz -1GHz)
Setups Laser ultrasonic setup (bandwidth < 200 MHz)
Time domain thermoreflectance setup (in Professor Krishnaswamy’s laboratory)
Displacement and velocity Michelson interferometers
Polygon scanning mirror assembly
Others High Frequency (4 GHz) RF signal generators
RF lock-in amplifier
Network analyzers
5 GHz Lecroy digital oscilloscope

Funding

Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)