Device Fabrication and Measurements Laboratories include e-beam lithography system (Roberts 140, MSE Department), micro-contact printing (Bagley 195, Xia), and dip-pen lithography and vacuum deposition (Bagley 13B, Ginger). Device measurements include photonic (Roberts 209, Jen) and electronic (EE B052, Parviz) techniques. Contact Dr. Hanson Fong for details.

The Nanoscale Imaging, Spectroscopy and Properties (NISP) Lab is relatively new but already contains some excellent equipment that is available to everyone in the University and to government and industry. It is connected to MRSEC via funding and/or other collaborative effort. NISPLab is dedicated to the characterization of the structure and composition of a broad spectrum of hard and soft materials and biological systems with nanometer resolution. These capabilities are used for research, and the teaching and training of students. The research performed in the laboratory is focused on the characterization of materials and structures in the areas of biomaterials, multifunctional and smart materials, nanostructured materials, nanodevices and geological materials. Equipment includes a JEM 2100 LaB6 transmission electron microscope (TEM) coupled with fiber optic, video-rate imaging, allowing observation of devices and conditions both in situ and in real time; a Hitachi SU-70 field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) equipped with an energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometer (EDS) used for elemental mapping; a JEOL 2100F atomic-resolution field emission transmission electron microscope (FE-TEM); and a JEOL JXA-89 electron microprobe equipped with a wavelength-dispersive x-ray spectrometer (WDS), used primarily in materials and geology research.

X rays - discovered by W.C. Rontgen in 1895 - have become established as an invaluable probe of the structure of matter. Progress in understanding the interaction between x rays and matter and of exploiting X rays experimentally has been increasing steadily since its discovery. In more recent times this has lead to unraveling the structure and morphology of compounds of increasing complexity like self-assembling molecular systems, including functional units of bio-organisms like DNA and proteins. MRSEC has funded within the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering an X-Ray Facility with several modern instruments for x-ray scattering (small, intermediate and wide angles), powder x-ray diffraction, and x-ray reflectivity studies of thin films.

Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) includes advanced characterization facilities and clean rooms for analysis and fabrication of advanced materials and devices. In the Fall of 2012, a Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) Instrument will be added to the facility.

This Facility is managed by the UCSB Materials Department, which is separate from the MRL. External users wishing to access this facility should contact one of the Facility Managers below with inquiries.

Facility Director

Professor Tresa Pollock

Facility Managers

tmates [at] mrl [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Dr. Tom Mates)	Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) LEAP 3000X HR Atom Probe
cornish [at] engineering [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Mr. Mark Cornish)	Scanning Electron Microscopes Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM) Technical Manager Sample preparation Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), Technical Manager Accounting
skraemer [at] engineering [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Dr. Stephan Kraemer)	Focus Ion Beam Microscopes (FIB), Technical Manager Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM), Technical Manager TEM sample preparation TEM sample preparation using FIB High Resolution TEM, Analytical Techniques

Facility Location

1st Floor of CNSI Building

Shared facilities operated by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN). The Facility provides state-of-the-art instruments for fabricating material samples and devices. The primary focus of the facility is on nanostructuring by using thin film deposition and multi-layering. The facility has 2 thin film deposition systems which can deposit sub nanometer thick films in which 2 or more materials can be layered together in different order to form a multilayer structure. The properties of such samples or devices will depend on the actual intrinsic property of the nanostructuring such as how the materials interact through the interfaces. The facility also provides systems to alloy materials together to study the bulk material properties.

Our fully equipped student machine shop plays a vital role in the training of MRSEC members, from undergraduates and REU students to postdocs. The shop gives MRSEC students the flexibility to easily design and safely produce machined parts and research prototypes. Main equipment includes several Bridgeport mills, Hardinge lathes, a CADworkstation and a welding station. The shop has been tremendously successful over the last several years due to the availability of highly motivated, exceptionally qualified staff for consultation and training. Training classes on machine operation and safety are regularly offered during the year (passing of this class is a prerequisite for working in the student shop). Purchase of an industrial-strength Tormach PCNC milling machine was recently completed. Acquisitions of radius stressors for a surface grinder and an indexing head capable of measuring within 1 degree are planned.

X-Ray Diffraction The facility consists of two computer-controlled Siemens x-ray diffractometers. One has a thin-film glancing angle attachment, high temperature capabilities in both air and vacuum (up to 2000ºC), and is equipped with a Laue camera. The other is a high-resolution system used primarily for rocking curve measurements on epitaxial films and other monocrystalline specimens. Director Sheldon is currently converting this facility to a University Cost Center, where users are charged on a per sample basis. This facility is used by researchers from Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and the Division of Biology and Medicine.

This facility provides central scientific computing resources and infrastructure support. It provides consultation support for the users of the roughly 120 independently-run scientific computers, maintains a dedicated cluster of three 48-core nodes for batched medium-scale computations, and maintains five other computer clusters dedicated for specific simulation projects. It provides a central home directory server, web server, email server, and print server, used actively by about 180 users.