OSU Staffed Facilities

Below is a partial list of major OSU materials-related instrumentation centers, facilities, and laboratories affiliated with but not directly managed by IMR. Using these facilities are multiple major research centers and groups, industry users, and smaller groups and individual faculty members. Other departmental facilities are listed on the website linked below.

Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC)

The Campus Chemical Instrument Center provides state-of-the-art research facilities for the entire campus in three areas: nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry and proteomics.

Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF)

The OSU Campus Electron Optics Facility serves the campus and surrounding community with state-of-the-art electron microscopy services. Instruments include 4 transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), 3 scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), 2 Dual-Beam FIBs, and 4 X-ray diffractometers (XRDs). The Titan S/TEM is a state-of-the-art STEM with an aberration-corrected probe-forming system, monochromator and high-resolution spectrometer capable of Angstrom scale nanoanalysis.

Campus Microscopy Instrumentation Facility (CMIF)

CMIF staff have considerable expertise in the preparation of samples for electron microscopy. A variety of special techniques and methods are available for processing and fixation.

Center for Chemical and Biophysical Dynamics (CCBD)

The Center for Chemical and Biophysical Dynamics (CCBD) is a multi-user laser facility housed in Ohio State’s Department of Chemistry, providing the ability to observe photogenerated intermediates in biological, chemical, physical, and materials systems from femtoseconds (10-15 s) to seconds. The unique combination of instrumentation allows us to address significant questions in such processes as artificial solar energy conversion, enzyme-ligand interactions, charge carrier dynamics, photophysical processes in nano-systems, and electron transfer reactions.

Electronic Materials and Nanostructures Lab (EMNLAB)

The Electronic Materials and Nanostructures Laboratory (EMNLAB) houses world-class surface and interface analytical facilities, including SIMS and both UHV electron and phone based luminescence systems. The group focuses on using a wide array of analysis, processing, and growth techniques to investigate the surface, interface, and ultrathin film properties of semiconductors. T

Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility

The mission of the MS&P Facility is to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation to OSU and the surrounding research community. The nature of our laboratory allows for routine service as well as access to sophisticated instrumentation for collaborative research between faculty and staff. The MS&P Facility is designated as the hub facility for the Ohio Mass Spectrometry Consortium. Therefore, the facility is available to a broad research community and provides advanced mass spectrometry services to all researchers within the State of Ohio.
The MS&P Facility at OSU maintains a well equipped and well supported laboratory for mass spectrometric analysis. The services offered include accurate mass analyses of small organic molecules, LC-MS of small molecules, polymer analysis, analysis of synthetic peptides and oligonucleotides. We also have considerable experience in the field of proteomics including protein identification, post-translational modification analysis, and differential gel electrophoresis (DIGE).

Microelectronics Laboratory

The Microelectronics Laboratory, located in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, encompasses 4,000 square feet of class 100 and 1000 cleanroom space with additional associated laboratory areas. This facility is the home to the NanoMPC cleanroom facility, and shares space with the Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Lab, resulting in a unique vertically integrated “atoms-to-devices” capability in a single facility. There are facilities to process and fabricate silicon integrated circuits and III-V devices, and this capability has been demonstrated by the implementation of circuits in a variety of technologies (MOS, bipolar, FETs, optoelectronics, and photovoltaics). The processing equipment include a Technics Planar Etch II Plasma Reactor for dielectric deposition, hydrogen processing, and etching; ICP/RIE and E-Beam Photolithography; CHA 4-Pocket electron beam evaporator; NRC filament evaporator; ellipsometer; DekTak profilomiter; Karl Suss MJB-3 mask aligner; Kasper and Cobilt aligners and associated photolithography equipment; annealing, oxidation and diffusion furnaces; a pulsed laser deposition facility; West Bond wire bonder; Kenworth probe station with Hewlett-Packard 4145; 4-point probe; wet chemical clean benches, etc.

Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLBB)

One of the NLBB’s main goals is to advance nanoscale characterization techniques by fabricating nanostructures and developing instrumentation and theoretical models for fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization. The second main goal is to develop bio-inspired nanostructured surfaces, such as those exhibiting superhydrophobicity (Lotus effect) and smart adhesion (Gecko feet). Instrumentation used in the lab includes atomic force microscopy/scanning tunneling microscopy (AFM/STM), microtriboapparatus, nanoindenter, and industrial simulators.

Oxide MBE Laboratory

The Oxide MBE laboratory is the only oxide molecular beam epitaxy machine in the State of Ohio. The centerpiece of this facility is a recently acquired Veeco GEN 930 oxide MBE system capable of growing ferroelectric and ferromagnetic ceramic crystals, so-called “complex oxides,” layer-by-atomic-layer and under extreme temperatures and pressures. A load locked entry/exit chamber, a buffer/preparation chamber, and an extension chamber transfer tube assembly permit ultrahigh vacuum sample transfer to and from a surface science analysis chamber without exposure to air. The analysis chamber is equipped with XPS, AES, UPS, LEED, and DRCLS to monitor electronic, chemical, and structural properties of the epitaxial oxide films and their interfaces during the growth process and with subsequent thermal and chemical processing.

Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL)

The Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL) is home to multiple Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) systems for the growth of various III-V compound, SiGe and spintronic materials, that are central to a very large number of federal, industry and state-supported research efforts. Research spans from applied physics and chemistry of unique electronic and photonic materials and nanostructures, to device-driven epitaxy for advanced photovoltaics, light emitting devices, high speed transistors and sensors. Multiple MBE chambers and an ultra-high vacuum analytical chamber for XPS and AES are clustered via UHV transfer mechanisms. MBE1 is devoted to III-AsP materials, MBE2 for spin-metals and SiGe and MBE3 (which is being added during early 2009) is designated for III-nitride materials and nanostructures. SEAL is a staffed user facility open to university and industry researchers, and is complete with a large complement of supporting and advanced characterization tools that include high resolution triple axis x-ray diffraction (Bede D1), Hall effect with QMSA capability, various optical based spectroscopies, etc. Collaborations are ongoing with a variety of industry, government albs and multiple university partners.

Trace Element Research Laboratory (TERL)

The Trace Element Research Laboratory (TERL) has world-class capabilities for elemental chemical measurements for an incredibly wide variety of applications in earth, environmental, chemical, biological, medical and materials sciences. Superb expertise and state of the art inductively coupled plasma based optical emission and mass spectrometry instruments are available. Most of the elements in the periodic table (other than C, N, O, F and noble gas elements) can be measured at concentrations from major (%) to ultratrace (part per trillion). Measurements can be made on solution samples, solids following digestion or, using laser ablation sampling, directly on solids.

Listing of other campus materials research laboratories and facilities.