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The Probe Innovation Facility

The PIF is a unique lab that serves as an incubator for new probes of nanostructure behavior and associated instrumentation development. It is equipped with a suite of scanning probes, opto-electronic/transport tools, and optical probes that are so recently developed as not to be available on commercial instruments. The environment facilitates the development and refinement of new probes.

Digital Instruments Dimension 3000 + Nanoscope IV AFM
Molecular Imaging PicoPlus + Agilent MAC III AFM
Asylum MFP-3D AFM + Agilent Network Analyzer
Lakeshore - Desert Cryogenics Probestation
Interfacial Force Microscope

  • Nano Impedance Spectroscopy
  • Scanning Impedance Microscopy
  • Scanning Conductance Microscopy
  • Piezo Force Microscopy
  • Multiple Modulation Imaging
  • CINT Discovery Platform
  • VT Opto electronic Probe Station
  • Dual Frequency PFM
  • Radio Frequency SPM

Slideshow with additional information

  Edison NBIC Main Lab
     
Edison UHV Labs

Omicron VT-STM/AFM with Scala Controller
Nanonis PLL/Oscillator
Oxford USV STM with RHK Controller

  • Photon STM
  • Scanning Gate Microscopy
  • Nano Gap Electrodes
  • Low energy electron diffraction
  • Auger electron spectroscopy
  • Sputtering
  • Friction force, Conductance, and
  • Noncontact AFM
  • Scanning Kelvin Probe + Local dielectric AFM

Slideshow with additional information

  Edison UHV Labs
     
Towne TIRF-AFM

Asylum MFP-3D

  • Total internal reflection fluorescence
  • Inverted optical microscope
  • Four laser illumination frequencies
  • Heated environmental enclosure
  • Bio-heater cell

Slideshow with additional information coming soon

  Towne TIRF-AFM
     
Internal Upenn Resources

In addition, the NBIC-affiliated research groups at Penn are encouraged to collaborate internally. A growing list of research expertise and instrumentation (with slideshows for individual facilities) may be found on our list of other Internal Upenn Resources page.

 
 

 

 

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