Our lab hosts a variety of deposition and characterization tools, including:

• over ten ALD/MLD reactors, with the capability to deposit over 30 materials,
• an ultra-high vacuum chamber with attached ALD reactor equiped with in situ XPS
• ALD reactors with capabilities for in situ IR, ellipsometry, quartz crystal microbalance, and mass spectrometry
• two in-lab Fourier transform infrared spectrometers,
• a Woolam spectroscopic ellipsometer,
• a custom-built thermal evaporator,
• a Schlenk Line setup for oxygen- and water-free particle synthesis,
• reactors designed for in situ characterization up at the nearby SSRL synchrotron,
• potentiostats for electrical characterization of solar cells and thin films,
• a four-point probe for measuring electrical conductivity,
• a solar-simulator for testing solar-cell performance, and

At Stanford, we also have access to shared equipment, allowing us to perform:

• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,
• auger electron spectroscopy,
• scanning electron microscopy,
• transmission electron microscopy,
• atomic force microscopy,
• x-ray diffraction
• water contact angle measurements,
• UV-visible spectroscopy,
• attenuated total reflectance FTIR,
• a custom-built reactor for testing syn-gas conversion using nanoparticle catalysts.
• battery testing facilities
• and much, much more!