Instrument List - Solid Surfaces

 
Surface modification

Plasma modification

  • Cold plasma, YKI design
  • Cold plasma for plastic containers, Nano Scale Surface Systems, Inc
  • Cold plasma for large samples, Technics Plasma

Corona treatment

  • Corona laboratory unit, CP-LAB, Vetaphone A/S

Vacuum deposition and sputter coater

  • Vacuum deposition equipment, Edwards
  • Sputter coater, SCD 050, Baltzers

Spin coating

  • Spin coating, PM 101D, Headway Research Inc.
Surface analysis

Confocal Raman Microscopy

  • Combined confocal Raman microscope/AFM/SNOM alpha300 RAS, WITec
    The grant from Nils and Dorthi Troëdsson Foundation for the combined Confocal Raman/AFM equipment is gratefully acknowledged.

XPS (ESCA)

  • ESCA, Ultra, Kratos Analytical
    The grant from Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation for the XPS instrument  is gratefully acknowledged.

Atomic force microscopes (AFM)

  • Atomic force microscopes (AFM) –NanoScope IIIa Multimode, Digital Instruments

Vacuum deposition and sputter coater

  • Vacuum deposition equipment, Edwards
  • Sputter coater, SCD 050, Baltzers

Profilometer

  • Profilometer (white light), NewView 5010, ZYGO

Wetting and contact angle

  • Contact angle goniometer, A 1100, Ramé Hart
  • Dynamic wetting, Fibro 1100 and 1129DAT, Fibro System AB, DataPhysics OCA40
  • Dynamic wetting as measured by interferometry, YKI design

FTIR

  • Spectrum One, Perkin Elmer
Adsorbed layers

Ellipsometry and Reflectometry

  • Ellipsometry, Rudolph 436 Research Ellipsometer, Auto EL-III, Rudolph Research and Optrel Multiscope
  • Reflectometry, Custom design

Dual polarization interferometer

  • DPI

Quartz crystal microbalance, QCM

  • Quartz crystal microbalance – energy dissipation (QCM-D), Q-Sense AB
Interaction between surfaces

Surface force apparatuses

  • Surface force apparatuses, ANUTECH Pty. Ltd. and YKI design
  • MASIF, ANUTECH Pty. Ltd.

Atomic force microscopes (AFM)

  • Atomic force microscopes using the colloidal probe technique, Digital Instruments

Elastohydrodynamic Rig

  • EHD, PCS Instruments

Mini Traction Instrument

  • MTM2, PCS Instruments

Calorimeters

  • DSC, Mettler
  • TGA
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