Laboratory of nanotechnology

The Nanotechnology Laboratory (LP-4.031) teaches bachelor students in Nanotechnology within the KEF/NPR Nanotechnology Practice course. In addition to teaching, the laboratory is also used for research purposes.

Equipment

The laboratory is equipped with:

• Workplace for simple chemical synthesis (hood, laboratory glass, mixer, vortex, ultrasonic bath),
• Apparatus for layers creation (spin coating, sputtering, evaporation),
• Microscopes (SEM, AFM, motorized optical microscope),
• Reactive Ion Etching,
• Reflectometer and photospectrometer,
• Kerr phenomenon magnetooptical measurement set,
• Instrument for electrical characterization with a contact station,
• Laboratory oven, heating plates, dryer,
• Polisher,
• Vacuum chamber.

Tasks range:

• Preparation of nanoparticles
  preparation of silver based nanoparticles (silver salt reduction method) and ferric oxide (thermal decomposition)
• Preparation of nanolayers
  spin coating, sputtering, layer thickness measurement
• Characterization of the features
  Magnetooptical Kerr phenomenon, elemental analysis by EDS
• Microscopic techniques
  scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy
• Methods of structural creation
  electron lithography