FACILITIES
Surface and Thin Film Analysis Facility
Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility (PRNTF)
Location: Room 108, LRSM Building
Supervisor: Douglas Yates 215/898-2013
e-mail: dmyates@seas.upenn.edu
Oversight Committee Chair: Christopher B. Murray , MSE
The heart of this facility is an NEC 5SDH 1.7MV Pelletron Accelerator
- Thin film characterization is carried out in the PRNTF's Ion Scattering Laboratory. At the heart of this laboratory is the Pelletron Accelerator, which is capable of producing ion beams ranging from 0.2-5.1 MeV. The laboratory specializes in data collection for General Purpose Station for Rutherford Backscattering and Forward Recoil Spectrometry. A computer-controlled goniometer aids in the collection of channel maps for crystal structure orientation studies and ion implantation applications.
Surface analysis tools also maintained at the PRNTF include VEECO (formerly Digital Instruments) Dimension 3000 and Multimode Atomic Force Microscopes.