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- Two interconnected dual-processor clusters: One cluster with 16 nodes plus one master with AMD-Opteron 1.5 GHz, 64-bit processors and 1 Tbyte storage capacity. A second cluster with 6 Pentium 866 MHz processors and 6 AMD-Athlon 1.2 GHz, 32-bit processors. Additional Pentium-4 desktop computers are connected to both clusters.
- Workstations for simulation/visualization: Five Silicon Graphics workstations and four dual-processor, dual-monitor workstations.
- Computer room with Pentium-4 desktop computers for use by Department students (currently being expanded to 24 stations).
- Forty-eight Pentium-4 desktop computer stations in teaching labs, with wireless connection to Physics laboratory server.
- Access to UPR High Performance Computer Facility
- Several sputtering systems (magnetron, ion beam, pulsed).
- Pulsed Laser Deposition systems.
- Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy / Pulsed Laser Deposition system (dedicated to nitride materials).
- Metal-Organic CVD system.
- Sol-gel techniques for bulk and thin films.
- Langmuir-Blodgett technique thin film growth system.
- Cluster beam source designed for vapor-phase formation of nanoclusters.
- Solid-state processing techniques.
- Techniques for semiconductor nanowire growth.
- K & S hybrid wire/tape bonder.
- Micronizing mill grinder.
- Programmable high temperature furnaces (up to 1,700EC).
- Hydraulic presses (12 ton).
- Well equipped fine mechanics workshop, staffed by full-time machinist.
- Bruker AXS Discover high-resolution 4-circle x-ray diffractometer system with parabolic multilayer x-ray collimator, 4-reflection Ge crystal monochromator, 2-reflection crystal analyzer, and reflectometry attachment.
- Two computerized setups, including closed cycle refrigerators and cryostats, for electrical characterization of materials; one setup capable of temperatures down to 4 K and magnetic fields up to 4 Tesla with superconducting magnet, equipped for magneto-optic and magneto-resistance measurements, including far-IR spectrometer; second setup for temperatures from 10K to 450K, and magnetic fields up to 1 Tesla, incorporating a Deep-Level Transient Spectrometer for studies of defects in semiconductors.
- AFM/STM microscopes (two systems) contact, non-contact, and intermittent-contact mode capabilities. One system has capability for nanoscale manipulation.
- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectrometer.
- Optical microscopes with DIC capability, interferometric objectives, and cooled CCD cameras.
- Tencor Alpha-Step-100 stylus profilometer.
- Radiant Technologies standardized ferroelectrics tester.
- Feedback stabilized interferometer with sub-angstrom sensitivity for measurements of piezoelectric response of thin films (house built).
- Woollam 44-wavelength ellipsometer.
- TA-Instruments model 2920 Differential Scanning Calorimeter.
- Quad Tech model 7600 LCR-meter, with frequency range from 10 Hz to 2 MHz.
- Access to additional materials characterization facilities at UPR Materials Characterization Center.
- Extensive state-of-the-art facilities for laser spectroscopy of solids and nonlinear optics studies of materials, including tunable femtosecond and picosecond laser sources, double spectrometers, and ample detection and signal processing instrumentation.
- Laser sources:
Spectra-Physics femtosecond laser system including: (1) Millennia diode pump laser, (2)Tsunami Ti:sapphire laser, (3) Merlin YLF pump laser, (4) Spitfire regenerative amplifier; (5) fs-Optical Parametric Amplifier (150fs pulse width, tunning range: 400-680nm).
Coherent MIRA-900 femtosecond laser
Continuum PY-610 high power (up to 10 GW/cm2 ) 20ps-laser and ps-OPG system (tunning: 400- 750nm).
Continuum nanosecond YAG pulsed laser with a TDL-50 dye laser
INNOVA-306 Ar+ and 599 Dye laser
- Spectroscopic and data processing equipment:
Time domain spectroscopy: including 3 sets of sophisticated optical delay line systems with accuracy up to 10 fs for time-resolved DFWM.
Time-resolved laser spectroscopy system: including 2 boxcar averagers, photon counting system, multichannel analyzer, dual channel lock-in amplifiers, transient scaler, etc.
High-resolution frequency domain spectroscopy: SPEX 1403 Ramanlog double spectrometer; ISA TR320MST-2XS spectrometer system (UV, Visible, IR); Hitachi UV/Visible Spectrophotometer; ISA Fluoro-Max-2 Spectrophotometer.
- Other equipment for spectroscopy:
Cryogenic systems for low temperature measurement (down to 8K), a variety of modern detectors, PMTs, gated signal processors and other equipment for low-signal detection, including photon counting.
- Computer-controlled 16" reflector telescope located in the dome of the Physics building.
Astronomy cameras.
- Shack-Hartmann interferometer system.
- Scintillometers (laser anemometers).
- Spectrometers.
- Faculty members working in radioastronomy can have access to the Arecibo radiotelescope, the largest in the world.
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