Equipment

PCN has equipment of its own for the synthesis, processing and characterization of colloidal quantum dots. Additional equipment, especially for quantum dot characterization and device fabrication, is accessible by means of research collaborations within the university and with outside partners.

Group's equipment

• Scanning Probe Microscope
• Langmuir-Blodgett deposition system
• Cleanroom Facility
• Synthesis Lab
• Spectrophotometer (UV-VIS-IR): Transmission and specular reflection of dispersions and thin films.
• FTIR
• Fluorescence setup (L3 UGent collaboration)
• Single quantum dot spectroscopy
• HR-TEM
• SEM (with EDX)
• XRF/XRD
• DLS - Dynamic Light Scattering
• COMSOL MultiPhysics
• In-situ Probe

Ultrafast Laboratory

The ultra-fast laboratory can be used to measure Photoluminescence, Time-resolved Photoluminescence, Transiant Absorption and single-particle emission.

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Collaborator's equipment

• EPR
• NMR
• X-ray: XPS, XRF (Synchrotron), XRD (in-situ)
• Z-Scan & Four Wave Mixing
• RBS
• ICP-MS
• Automated Synthesis Setup (FLAMAC)
• Atomic Layer Deposition (Cocoon, UGent)
• RF/DC magnetron sputtering (Draft, UGent)
• Microphotoluminescence Setup
• Fully equipped cleanroom facilities (wetbenches, lithography, ICP/RIE etching, PECVD, metallization, FIB/SEM, ...)