Surface Science Lab

The department houses a fully functional surface analysis laboratory run and operated by Professor Gellman. The laboratory has eight versatile ultra-high vacuum surface preparation and analysis chambers equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation. Many of these apparatus were built and constructed at Carnegie Mellon and some of the capabilities are unique.

The instrumentation in the laboratory includes: four x-ray photoemission spectrometers, an ultra-violet photoemission spectrometer, an Auger electron spectrometer, six low energy electron diffraction optics, two high resolution electron energy loss spectrometers, a variety of mass spectrometers, a secondary electron microscope, a scanning Auger microscope, two Fourier transform infrared spectrometers and an ultra-high vacuum tribometer. In addition, the laboratory has instrumentation for surface preparation by magnetron sputter deposition, thin film evaporation, and molecular deposition.