Facilities

Engineering Hall 3140

BurkeLab was recently renovated in Fall 2018 to provide a new integrated bio-nano facility. The cell culture room is modeled on the UCI Stem Cell facility and incorporates best practices such as positive air pressure to minimize contamination. Next to it is a shielded low noise room for electrophysiology.
The new lab includes electronic measurement equipment, probe stations, network analyzers, terahertz system, laser 3D printer, basic biochemistry equipment and three fume hoods. An inverted microscope Olympus IX71 combined with a special AFM are seated in a shielded Faraday cage situating on a vibration-controlled table. A broad-spectrum fluorescence illumination source X-Cite 120 PC Q is connected to the inverted microscope along with TRIC and FITC filters. A customized filter block with Ex 390nm/Em 650nm has recently been installed for monitoring Pt-porphyrin fluorescence. The objectives on the microscope are 4X, 20X, and 60X air with phase contrast. A monochrome CCD camera (QIClick) is attached to enable image viewing with a PC. The combination of equipment and facilities allows a wide range of experiments including electrophysiology measurements, cell culture, as well as fluorescence investigations. The separate BSL2 lab with positive air pressure is equipped with a class II biosafety cabinet, CO2 incubators, and other equipments. The separate shielded room is a well isolated room equipped with an electrophysiology system, including an Axopatch 200B amplifier, a customized 2nd channel amplifier for transconductance signal sensing, a Digitizer 1440A, an electrochemical impedance spectrum analyzer Gamry reference 600.

                          Overview of 3140

                          3140A Shielded Room

                          3140B Cell Culture Room

                          AFM and fluorescence measurement

                         Terahertz System

                           Laser 3D printer

                            Student desks

Cleanroom facilities are available in the
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility.

Results from electron-beam lithography system are available here.

We have built a custom carbon nanotube growth furnace, capable of synthesizing single walled nanotubes several mm in length.

We have a 20 GHz microwave network analyzer, probe station, cryogenic system (3He) capable of high frequency (to 20 GHz), high field (to 8 Tesla), variable temperature (0.3-300K) operation.