Facilities

MEM·C maintains a growing suite of facilities providing students, faculty, and industry access to state-of-the-art equipment. Most are located in the MEM·C Shared Facilities (MSF), in the northeast corner of the ground floor of the NanoES building on central campus, as shown in the map below.

Capabilities include microscopy, spectroscopy, materials synthesis, thin film deposition, and 2D device fabrication. Users can be trained to operate the equipment themselves, or they can have an experienced superuser do it for them.

Information about the MEM·C’s instrumentation and links are provided below, or through the links at the top of the page.

UW MEM·C is part of the Materials Research Facilities Network (MRFN). The primary goal of the program is to maximize the use of advanced characterization facilities within the greater scientific community. Please visit mrfn.org for comprehensive information.

MEM·C Shared Facilities Resources

• Microscopy: AFM and inert atmosphere AFM; optical microscopy in inert atmosphere
• Spectroscopy: UV-Vis-NIR spectrofluorometer with lifetime measurement capabilities; Phosphorus XES Spectrometer 
• High Pressure: DAC with automatic pressure controller
• 2D Materials: Transfer Stage in Ar atmosphere
• Synthesis: Microwave reactor
• Thin Film Deposition: Pulsed Laser Deposition; Thermal Evaporator
• Calorimetry: Isothermal Calorimeter
• Small-angle Scattering: SAXS

Publishing

When publishing work involving experiments conducted in the MEM·C Shared Facilities, please include the following text in the acknowledgments:

 “The authors acknowledge the use of facilities and instrumentation supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through the UW Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM·C), a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (DMR-1719797).”

Contacts

Click here to view the facility contacts.