Facility Type: Spectroscopic methods

HORIBA Jobin-Yvon

• • excitation: Mercury lamp / KOHERAS Supercontinuum Laser

Inverted Olympus BX microscope

— Installed 2011; TIRF functionality to be finalized —

• 175 – 3300 nm wavelength range
• 3 detectors: Photomultiplier / Peltier-cooled InGaAs / Peltier-cooled PbS
• 60 mm spectralon integration sphere – 2 detectors (PMT / PbS)
• Spectroelectrochemical cuvette for the use both in trasnmission and reflectance
• Spectroelectrochemical cell for the use in transmission
• Electrochemical studies controlled by µAutolab (Ecochemie/Metrohm)

— Installed 2008 —

(HORIBA Jobin-Yvon)

• 11 excitation wavelengths
  – Ar-Kr (Coherent Innova 70C Spectrum) : 457, 476, 488, 514, 531, 568, 647 nm
  – He-Ne (integrated): 633 nm
  – Diode: 785 nm
  – Diode: 830 nm
  – Nd-YAG: 1064 nm
• Olympus BX microscope, 50x and 100x vis LWD lenses, 50x IR LWD lens
• NEW! Piezo XYZ stage (PI 730.3CD)
• Manual / motorized XY stages, manual / piezo Z axis
• DuoScan
• Peltier-cooled CCD / liquid nitrogen cooled InGaAs detector for IR range
• Linkam heating stage (RT to 1500°C)
• Diamond-anvil cell
• Available gratings: 300, 600, 1200, 1800 l/mm
• Electrochemical cell(s) for in-situ spektroelectrochemical measurements; controlled by µAutolab (Ecochemie/Metrohm)
• Cantilever beam bending apparatus for in-situ spectromechanical studies

— Installed 2008 —

• 532 and 633 nm excitation wavelength
• Confocal microscope, 50x and 100x vis LWD lenses,
  50x SWD lens
• Piezo XYZ stage (200x200x20 μm)
• Peltier-cooled EMCCD
• Available gratings: 600, 1200, 1800 l/mm