Equipment
The vast majority of the equipment used in the lab is less than 7 years old and is still considered state-of-the-art for work at an educational level. In addition to being used by MS&E classes, lab equipment is available to undergrad researchers, and in some cases, to grad and post-doc researchers. The following pages provide necessary information for users of the respective equipment.
- Instron 5569 mechanical tester with environmental chamber (available to MS&E research groups for an hourly fee)
- TA Instruments Q20 differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)
- Ocean Optics spectroscopy suite
- Key Vacuum Products thermal evaporator: diagram - overview - deposition
- Applied Test Systems high-temperature furnace
- Olympus BH-2 optical microscope with digital image capture
Other key equipment in the lab (external links will open in new window):
- Dell Latitude 131L laptops
- National Instruments DAQPad-6020E, GPIB-USB-B and BNC-2120 data acquisition systems
- Tektronix TDS 2002 digital storage oscilloscopes
- Keithley 2400 digital source-meters
- Mettler-Toledo XS105 dual-range balance
- Leica DMLM optical microscope with high-precision digital stage motion measurement, digital image capture, and fluorescence capability
- Polarizing Olympus BH2 optical microscope
- Mettler FP 82 hot stage
Computing Facility
All MS&E undergraduates have access to the Undergraduate Computing Facility, which features 10 new Dell OptiPlex 300N workstations purchased in the summer of 2008. Students have 24-hour ID card access to the facility and private accounts with storage space on a dedicated server. The facility is also available for MS&E class reservations during lab, recitation, or office hours. Network printing is offered through Cornell's Net-Print system, and a scanner is available. Software installed on the computers includes (external links will open in new window):
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Matlab R2007A
- National Instruments LabView 8.2
- CaRINE crystallography
- Genplot
