Ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory. Our ultrafast lab features clean-room-quality air with high temperature and humidity stability. The lab houses our optical Kerr effect spectrometers and micropscope, which are based around a KMLabs Ti:Sapphire oscillator. This lab is also home to a kHz Ti:Sapphire amplifier system with an optical parameter amplifier and difference-frequency generation system; we use this system in collaboration with Rob Walker's group for vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy of liquid/solid interfaces.

Microscopy/fabrication laboratory. This laboratory, which is also climate-controlled, hosts three advanced microscopes and three different Ti:sapphire laser systems. One microscope is dedicated to two-photon imaging and features single-molecule sensitivity. The other two microscopes are used for multiphoton fabrication. Two of the lasers are broadly-tunable Coherent Mira 900s that can be locked to within 200 fs with SynchroLock hardware. The other laser is a KMLabs oscillator that generates 20 fs pulses. Each laser can be used with any of the microscopes. This lab also features pulse-shaping and beam-shaping setups that use satial light modulators.

Characterization and processing laboratory. This lab contains equipment for materials synthesis and characterization, including a scanning electron microscope, a BET sorptometer, a plasma cleaner, a sputter coater, and programmable furnaces and ovens.

Upright microscope system for multiphoton fabrication.

Wet chemical laboratory. In addition to synthesis space and equipment, our wet lab contains additional processing and characterization equipment such as spincoaters, microscopes, centrifuges, vacuum ovens, and UV equipment.

Scanning electron microscope in the characterization and processing laboratory