Nanophotonics Capabilities

• Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM)
  • Apertured and apertureless configurations
  • Laser excitation: 400-900 nm
  • Laser pulse width: continuous wave, 3 ps, 125 fs
  • Laser-based automated fiber puller
• Confocal Raman microscopy
  • Laser excitation: 633, 514, 442, and 325 nm
  • Macro and micro sampling capability
  • Fully automated Raman area mapping: 1-micron XY resolution
  • Fully integrated temperature controlled stage: 77-875 K
• Ultrafast transient-absorption spectroscopy
  • Laser excitation: 300-2000 nm
  • Probe wavelength range: 450-1400 nm
  • Delay times 100 fs-3 ns
  • Solution and thin-film sample handling
• Ultrafast microscopy
  • Diffraction-limited microscopy with 15-fs laser pulses at 800 nm
  • Time-correlated single-photon counting with 30-ps instrument response
• Nanophotonics nanoparticle synthesis laboratory
• Near-Infrared Microscope and Spectrometer
  • NIR Microscope (800-1700 nm) for electroluminescence and photoluminescence (650-nm excitation)
• Varian Cary-50 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer
  • 190- to 1100-nm scan range
• Size-selected clusters and cluster-based nanomaterials