Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE)
About the core
The Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) is a shared core facility for electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and electron-beam lithography. Graduate students, undergraduates, postdocs, and faculty have hands-on access to all instruments.
Equipment
Electron-beam lithography (EBL)
- Raith EBPG 5000+
- EBPG 5200+
- Prep tools: Bruker Dektak XT stylus profilometerand Cressington 208 iridium sputtering tool
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Two Hitachi SU-70 scanning electron microscopes
- Prep tools: Cressington 208 iridium sputtering tooland Hitachi IM4000 ion mill
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- FEI Tecnai Osiris 200kV TEM
- Prep tools: Fischione 1050 ion-beam thinning tool, focused ion-beam instrument, and cryo-microtome
Atomic-force microscopy (AFM)
- Bruker Dimension Fastscan AFM
Michael Rooks, PhD
Primary contact Associate Director of Facilities Senior Research Scientist in Applied PhysicsContacts
Primary contact
Michael Rooks, PhD
Associate Director of Facilities
Senior Research Scientist in Applied Physics
Faculty Director
Charles Ahn, PhD
William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics
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