Facilities and Equipment
Carleton University | Concordia University | Dalhousie University | École Polytechnique de Montréal | McGill University | McMaster University | Queen’s University | Simon Fraser University | Université de Montréal |Université du Québec à Montréal | Université Laval | University of Alberta | University of British Columbia | University of Ottawa | University of Toronto | University of Waterloo
Carleton University – located in Ottawa, Ontario
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Professor James Meadowcroft
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Professor N. Garry Tarr
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Professor Zhi Yuan (Wayne) Wang
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Concordia University – located in Montréal, Québec
Professor Andreas Athienitis
Solar Simulator – Environmental Chamber (SSEC) Laboratory
• 8-lamp continuous, large scale (test specimen size: up to 2.4 m x 3.2 m), solar simulator test stand
• 2-storey high environmental chamber utilizing a 6-lamp continuous solar simulator
• Customized Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic hot box calorimeter
• Cary 5000i UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer (equipped with variable angle reflectance accessory)
• Daystar DS-100C I-V curve tracer
• Flir T640 IR imaging camera
Dalhousie University – located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Professor Ian HillOrganic Electronics Materials and Devices Group Facilities
• UHV Organic/Metal Deposition
• XPS, UPS and SIMS (Dalhousie IRM)
• Sputter Deposition
• Polymer Film Spin Caster
• Class 1000 Cleanroom for Fab/Lithography
• Controlled Atmosphere Testing
• Wet Etching
• Photolithography
• Reactive Ion Etching
• Transistor Testing
• Bell Jar Evaporator
• Parylene Film Deposition
• Solar Simulator – PV Testing
• OLED/Solar Testing
École Polytechnique de Montréal – located in Montréal, Québec
Professor Alain Rochefort
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Professor Clara Santato
Film Deposition and Optoelectronic Characterization
• Glove box 1: process air sensitive materials and devices, connected to a cryogenic micro-manipulated optoelectronic probe station (LakeShore)
• Glove box 2: probe station to be used for electrical characterizations at room temperature
• Glove box 3: vacuum evaporation system for vacuum and organics
Fluorescence Hyperspectral Imaging
• PARISS (Prism and Reflector Imaging Spectroscopy System, LightFormInc.)
• Imaging system which belongs to the PARISS (for simultaneous imaging of sample with the spectra)
Time of Flight (TOF)
Microfabrication and Characterization of Materials
McGill University – located in Montréal, Québec
Professor Zetian Mi
• Veeco Gen II molecular beam epitaxial growth systems
• Nanophotonic material and device characterization facility
• McGill Nanotool Microfabrication Laboratory
• Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR)
McMaster University – located in Hamilton, Ontario
Professor Alex Adronov
The Polymer Synthesis Laboratory
• Waters Alliance GPC System equipped with refractive index, photodiode array, and fluorescence detectors
• Viscotek Triple Detector Array (refractive index, high and low angle light scattering, viscometer, and UV detectors)
• Cary 50 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
• SPEX Fluorolog 3-22 Fluorimeter equipped with an InGaAs NIR detector
• Allegra Centrifuge
• Spin Coater
• Branson Water Purification System
• Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)(equipped with a high-resolution scanner)
• Titan Transmission Electron Microscopes in the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM)
• Scanning Electron Microscopes (TEM) (including a Focused Ion Beam instrument)
• Renishaw InVia Raman Spectrometer
•(equipped with 514 and 785 nm excitation laser wavelengths)
• Nicolet 6700 FT-IR Spectrometer
•(capable of measuring solutions, solids, and films)
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
•(our facility contains 8 spectrometers ranging from 200 to 700 MHz)
• Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer
•(equipped with diffuse reflectance accessory and variable-temperature sample holders)
• JY-SPEX Fluorolog 3-22
•(equipped with near-IR detector capable of measuring fluorescence to 1500 nm)
• Waters Alliance GPC System
•(equipped with PDA, RI, and fluorescence detectors)
Professor Rafael Kleiman
Center for Emerging Device Technologies (CEDT)
Materials Growth
• Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
• Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD)
Processing
• Class 10000 Cleanroom
› Wet Benches
› Metallization
› ECR-Reactive Ion Etching
› Silicon Reactive Ion Etching
› SiON Chemical Vapour Deposition
› Ellipsometry
› Photolithography
› Surface Profilometer
› Stress Analysis
› Holography
› Plasma Asher
› UV Ozone
• Annealing
• Electron Beam Lithography (EBL)
• Reactive Ion Etching (RIE)
• Dicing Saw
Analysis
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Photoluminescence (PL)
• Ellipsometry
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• Hall Effect Characterization
• Luminescence, Current, Voltage Characterization (LIV)
• FTIR Spectroscopy
Professor Ray LaPierre
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Professor Peter Mascher
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Queen’s University – located in Kingston, Ontario
Professor Jean Michel NunziLaboratory Equipment
• Student Work Space
• Instrumentation Room
• Glove-Box
• Fumehoods and Laboratory Space
• Circular Dichroism Spectrometer
• Solar Simulator
• Keithley – SCS 4200,
• PAR 273 – Potentiostat/Galvanostat
• Atomic Force Microscope
• Zeiss Axio Microscope
• Kurt J. Lesker – Mini-SPECTROS Physical Vapor Deposition
• Optics Tables and Equipment
• Lasers
• Sonication, Spin Coating, & Centrifuge
• Department NMR
Simon Fraser University – located in Burnaby and Vancouver, British Columbia
Professor Steven Holdcroft
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Professor Simon Watkins
Metalorganic Chemical Vapour Deposition (MOCVD) Facility
• ZnO MOCVD Reactor
• Thomas Swan MOCVD reactor
• Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy System
• BEDE D3 x-ray diffractometer
• X-ray diffraction (high resolution triple axis),
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• Hall effect measurements (down to 1.8K)
• Photoreflectance measurements
• Photoluminescence (high resolution double grating spectrometer with HeCd laser excitation)
Université de Montréal – located in Montréal, Québec
Professor Michel Côté
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Professor Carlos Silva
• Transient photoluminescence and absorption probes with a kilohertz ultrafast laser system
• Time-resolved spectroscopic imaging with a megahertz ultrafast laser system and confocal microscope
• Double modulation, quasi-steady-state spectroscopy apparatus
Université du Québec à Montréal – located in Montréal, Québec
Professor Ricardo Izquierdo • list equipment and facilities here
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Professor Benoît Marsan
Electrocatalysis and Energy Conversion Laboratory
• Multi-potentiostat/galvanostat 1|2 |3|4
• Frequency response analyzer (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) 1|2
• Rotating ring disc electrode
• Spin coater
• Powder mixer
• Glove box: to be used for synthesis of air sensitive materials (organic and inorganic compunds) 1|2|3|4|5
• Solar simulator (500 W)
• DSC
• FTIR and UV-Vis spectrometers 1|2|3 and 1|2
• ATR “Smart iTR”
• Particles size analyzer
• TGA and TGA/MS
Université Laval – located in Québec City, Québec
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University of Alberta – located in Edmonton, Alberta
Professor Michael BrettLaboratory Equipment
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Professor Jillian Buriak
Laboratory Facilities
The National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)
• Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS): Bruker NanoStar and D8
• AFM: New DI multimode IIIa and Dimension 3100 (with NanoMan)
• SEM/STEM: Hitachi S-4800 (1 nm resolution) SEM/STEM and Hitachi 3500 Environmental SEM
• Much more: HREELS, Raman imaging, high resolution TEM, additional AFM/STM.
University of Alberta Micromachining and Nanofabrication Facility (Nanofab)
• Alberta Centre for Surface Engineering and Science (ACSES)
• Centenially Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (CCIS)
University of British Columbia – located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Professor Curtis Berlinguette
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University of Ottawa – located in Ottawa, Ontario
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Professor Karin Hinzer
SUNLab
• High-concentration continuous-wave solar simulator and photovoltaic device characterization station(Spectrolab XT-30 solar simulator)
• Low-concentration continuous-wave solar simulator and photovoltaic device characterization station(Oriel 92191 solar simulator)
• Photoluminescence station(300-3000 nm)
• External and Internal Quantum Efficiency station(Newport Oriel IQE 200, EQE – 300 to 1800 nm, temperature from 0 to 125 oC)
University of Toronto – located in Toronto, Ontario
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Professor Nazir Kherani
Advanced Photovoltaics and Devices (APD) Research Group Facilities
• Multi-Chamber-Cluster RF Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PECVD) Facility
• DC and RF PECVD Materials Facility
• DC and RF PECVD Devices Facility
• Evaporation and Sputtering Facilities
• Wet Facilities
• Characterization Facilities
• Solar Simulator
• Tritium Site License
• Liquid Nitrogen Cold Fingers
Professor Harry Ruda
Laboratory Facilities
Epitaxy
• ATC-EP3 MBE System
› Growth Chamber (8 K-Cells, RHEED)
› Load Lock Chamber
• UHV SPM-Based Nanolithography System
› MBE Growth Chamber (6 K-Cells, RHEED)
› Analysis Chamber (UPS and Auger)
› Processing Chamber (ebeam, ECR, CVD, 2 K-Cells)
› In-Situ SPM Chamber (Omicron LS-STM/AFM)
Processing
• Class 100/1000 Clean Room Facility
• Raith e-Beam Lithography System
• Karl Suss Double Side Mask Aligner
• Samco Load Locked Plasma Etcher
• RF Plasma Ferroelectric Sputtering System
• Sol-Gel Processing System
• Thermal Evaporator System for Metal Deposition
• e-Beam Metal Deposition System
• RTA System
• K&S Wire Bonder and Wafer Scriber
Optical
• Photoluminescence System including Mira 900 Ti: Sapphire/OPO
• Photo-Reflectance System
• Electro-Reflectance System
• Surface Photovoltage System
• Optical Beam Induced Current System
Electrical
• Hall Effect System
• IV System
• Variable Frequency CV (10kHz – 10 MHz)
• Radiant Ferroelectric Test System
• DLTS System
• Oxford Kelvinox Dilution Fridge Magneto-Transport System
Scanning Probe
• Omicron VT SPM
• Omicron VT AFM
Computation
• DCG, DEC, SUN, SGI and NCD Workstations
• Linux Cluster
• Access to Scinet, Sharcnet
Professor Gregory Scholes
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University of Waterloo – located in Waterloo, Ontario
Professor Siva Sivoththaman
Center for Advanced Photovoltaics Devices and Systems (CAPDS)
• Crystal Growth and Wafering Lab
• Thin-film Deposition Lab
• Bulk Semiconductor and Thin-film Characterization Lab
• Nano-PV Lab
• Nano-materials Characterization Lab
• PV Device Fabrication Lab
• PV Device Characterization Lab
• Screen-printing Metallization Lab
• High Throughput Processing Lab
• PV Module Fabrication Lab
• Design and Simulation Software