Instrument

• Aberration-Corrected (Scanning) Transmission electron microscope [AC-(S)TEM]

  • • Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)

    • Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)

    • Differential phase contrast (DPC)

    • In-situ experiments

      • Heating / electric biasing / liquid cell / nanomanipulator

• Scanning electron microscope (SEM)

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Cathodoluminescence (CL)

• Atomic force microscope (AFM) / Magnetic force microscope (MFM) / Kelvin probe force microscope (KPFM)

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Raman/Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

      • Cryo stage

      • Tip-enhanced Raman/PL Spectroscopy

• Thermal evaporator with cryo stage

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Electron-beam evaporator

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Wire bonder

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Liquid-helium cooled probe station

• Thermogravimetry (TGA) / Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Glovebox

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• UV/Ozone cleaner

  • • • Tutorial video (private link)

• Optical Microscope

• Induction furnace

• Graphite furnace

• Tube furnace

Techniques

• Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)

  • • Graphene

    • Transitional metal dichalcogenide (TMD)

    • hBN

• Chemical vapor transport (CVT)

  • • Ampoule sealing

• 2D materials transfer

  • • Wet (PMMA) transfer

    • Dry/stage transfer

      • • PC/PPC/PCL/PDMS

    • Electrochemical transfer (bubble transfer)

• Materials surface cleaning methods

  • • Acetone vapor

    • Vacuum annealing

    • Oxygen/Hydrogen + Ar annealing

    • Laser

    • UV/Ozone cleaning

    • Probe scratching

Electron microscope image and diffraction simulation

• QSTEM (free software)

• muSTEM (free software)

• Prismatic (free software)

  • • Tutorial video (private link)

First-principles calculation and spectrum simulations

• VASP (license required)

  • • Phonopy (free software)

• CASTEP (free for academic license)

  • • OptaDOS (free software)

• FEFF (license required)

• Quantum Espresso (free software)

Beam physics simulation

• COSY Infinity (free for academic license)

Finite Element Analysis

• Comsol Multiphysics (license required)

Crystal structure construction/visualization and electron diffraction

• VESTA (free software)

• Crystal Maker (license required)

  • • Single Crystal (license required)

• Materials Studio – Materials Visualizer (license required)

• VMD (free software)

TEM and AFM image analysis

• ImageJ / FIJI: for image analysis and processing

• Gwyddion: for AFM image analysis and processing

West Campus

• ACEM Core

  • • State-of-the-art aberration corrected STEM (model coming soon!)

• Materials Characterization Core

  • • ThermoFisher Helios G4 UX DualBeam FIB

    • X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

    • Hitachi SU8230 UHR Cold Field Emission (CFE) SEM

    • X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

    • Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)

    • Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) System

    • MBruan-EcoVap Thermal Evaporator

    • Wire bonder

• Imaging Core

  • • Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopes

    • WideField Fluorescence Microscopes

    • Asylum Research Cypher ES (AFM)

• Cleanroom at West Campus

  • • UHV Electron Beam Evaporator

    • Reactive Ion Etcher (RIE)

Main Campus

• Earth Material Characterization Center (EMC2)

  • • Hitachi SU7000 SEM equipped with CL (Gatan Monarc 450)

• Cleanroom at Main Campus

• Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE)

  • • Electron-Beam Lithography (Raith 5000+ and Raith 5200+)

    • FEI Tecnai Osiris TEM

• X-ray Data Booklet

• Materials Project Crystal Database