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
• Dual head scan heads along with third, micropositioning head
• Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at 413, 532, and 647 nm
• Time-correlated single-photon counting with 30-ps instrument response
• 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 – 0.1 ms
• 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