SPectroscopy
Adaptable & portable set-ups in the spectral range 200 -2600 nm for:
Reflectance at normal incidence, diffuse and angle resolved
Transmittance & absorbance
Steady state photoluminescence with excitation at 365 nm, 405 nm, 448 nm, 532 nm, 660 nm for both liquid and solid state samples.
The set-ups also allows assessing emission anisotropy and profile with resolution lower than 0.5 deg.
Photoluminescence Quantum Yield with excitation at 365 nm, 405 nm, 448 nm, 532 nm, 660 nm for solid state samples.
Time resolved emission decay (Time correlated single photon counting) with excitation 405 nm, resolution 200 ps, spectral range 400-800 nm.
Measurements in the milliseconds timeframes are also possible with different excitation wavelength and extended spectral range.
Raman spectroscopy with excitation 1064 nm in the range 200-2000 cm-1
Infrared spectroscopy (Facility of the UNIGE Industrial Chemistry Division)
IR Thermocamera (FLIR ONE pro mobile and high resolution portable Flir T560 - 640 × 480 (307,200 pixel) with macrolens)
Solar Simulator AM 1.5
MAterial CHARACTERIZATION
MORPHOLOGY
Atomic Force Microscopy (Nanosurf Core AFM)
White light interferometry Profilometer (Filmetrics)
THERMAL PROPERTIES
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Facility of the UNIGE Industrial Chemistry Division)
Thermogravimetric Analyzer (Facility of the UNIGE Industrial Chemistry Division)
ELECTRICAL & ELECTROCHEMICAL
Potentiostat for cyclic voltammetry measurements
Kelvin probe force microscopy
Source Measure Units
Four point probe
Fabrications & PROCESSING
Solution & wet processing of polymers and inorganics
Thin film deposition (10-1000 nm) on rigid and flexible substrates by spin-coating & dip-coating
Conformal thin film deposition by dip-coating
Surface activation via wet chemistry or dry plasma
Sol-gel synthesis of metal oxides & alloys
Fabrication of 1-3 D polymer & hybrid photonic crystals
3D printing (vertical resolution down to 50 μm)