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
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
Calorimeters