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Testing Labs and Technical Facilities

Create and maintain product quality by using UB's specialized facilities and equipment to test your products. Fees are determined by the individual units.

Biological

Chemical

  • Chemistry Instrumentation Center

    Offers mass spectrometry to identify, characterize and quantify chemicals, including failure analysis, isolation of components and product characterization. Clients include IIMAK, Multisorb Technologies, Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems and Kinex. Contact Alice Bergmann at Bergmann@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4120.

Material/Structural

  • Integrated Nanostructured Systems

    Maintains a set of centrally-coordinated instruments that supports research in nanoscience, as well as related physics, engineering and materials research. All facilities available for modest cost-recovery fees. Individual instruments and instrument clusters are described below. For general information, contact Mark Swihart at swihart@buffalo.edu or 716-645-1181. 

  • High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility (HRTEM)

    Provides microanalysis services.  The HRTEM staff will provide assistance and training in microscopy techniques.   Contact Dr. Yueling Qin at 716-645-2017, ext. 116 or yqin@buffalo.edu

  • Focused Ion Beam / Scanning Electron Microscopy Facility (FIB / SEM)

    Consists of a Zeiss Auriga XBeam focused ion beam/field emission SEM system with TEM liftout, Oxford EDS system, Avizo imaging interface / software for 3D reconstruction of depth profiles. Contact Dr. Yueling Qin at 716-645-2017, ext. 116 or yqin@buffalo.edu

  • The Clean Room Facility

    Provides optical lithography and device processing, fabrication, and testing.  Located in Jack & Barabara Davis Hall, the 5,000-square-foot cleanroom combines class-w00 and class-1000 space. A PhD-level manager and associated technician, manage the facility assisted by graduate students.

    Major items of equipment within the cleanroom includes furnaces, a thermal evaporator, an electron-beam evaporator, a Karl Suss MJB-3 mask aligner, an ellipsometer, a reactive ion etch for dry patterning, and photoresist system for photoresist deposition. A deionized water system provides the high-purity water required in semiconductor processing. Measurement facilities include optical microscopes, a sub-micron probe station, current-voltage-temperature, capacitance-voltage-temperature, deep level transient spectroscopy, quasi-static C-V, cryogenic systems, and a variety of meters for measuring resistance, current, capacitance and voltage.

    Nanolithography capabilities are provided by facilities for electron-beam and focused-ion-beam lithography. Electron-beam lithography is performed using a JEOL JSM 6500F field-emission microscope configured with the Nabity NPGS system. This System is routinely used to create structures with features smaller than 20 nm. This capability has been enhanced by the recent, NSF/MRI-enabled, purchase of a Zeiss Auriga XBeam focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope.  Contact David Eason at 716-645-8596 or dbeason@buffalo.edu

  • Electron Beam Lithography Facility (EBL)

    Major equipment in the facility includes: JEOL JSM6500F Scanning Electron Microscope; Nabity NPGS E-Beam Writing System; CEE Model 100 Spin Coater; Bake Oven. Contact Dr. Yueling Qin at 716-645-2017, ext. 116 or yqin@buffalo.edu

  • Device Bonding

    A K&S Model 4522 Digital Ball Wire Bonder supports the various fabrication and characterization labs of INSIF.  This is a ball-bonder type machine that can store various wire bonding "recipes." It can bond with gold wires from 18-75 microns in diameter. Contact Dr. Albert Titus at 716-645-3115, ext. 1200 or ahtitus@eng.buffalo.edu

  • Physical Property Measurement System

    This facility consists of a Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement system (PPMS) that can make a variety of electrical and magnetic measurements on samples over a broad range of temperatures (down to liquid helium temperature) and in the presence of high applied magnetic field (up to 9 Tesla). Contact Dr. Hao Zeng at 716-645-1019 or haozeng@buffalo.edu

  • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrocopy Facility

    This facility consists of a Bruker FTIR spectrometer with a MCT detector and mirrors / accessories needed for coupling to an external bolometer as well as for carrying out experiments outside the main chamber. Contact Dr. Andrea Markelz at 716-645-2739 or amarkelz@buffalo.edu

  • Atomic Force Microscopy Facility

    This facility consists of a Quesant Resolver AFM typically used for hard materials. This Atomic Force Microscope is capable of scanning large samples (6 in x 6 in x 2 in) and resolving individual atoms.  Contact Dr. Yueling Qin at 716-645-2017, ext. 116 or yqin@buffalo.edu

  • South Campus Instrumentation Center

    Tests materials (including: metals, ceramics, microelectronics, dental implants, soil samples and archaeological items) for quality control and assurance, assisting with product development and testing. Contact Peter Bush, director, at pjbush@acsu.buffalo.edu or 716-829-3561.  Call for hourly rates.

Pharmaceutical

  • Pharmaceutical Sciences Instrumentation Facilities

    are a combination of facilities (see following list) and researchers who perform biopharmaceutical analysis, working in the fields of pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenetics/genomics, drug transport and metabolism, protein therapeutics and drug delivery. In addition to research and expertise, UB provides instrument training. Regarding the following facilities, contact: Robert M. Straubinger at rms@buffalo.edu or 716-645-2844.

  • Proteomics and Biopharmaceutical Analysis Core

    Helps shape analytical strategies in instrumentation, sample processing and data analysis. Research includes small-molecule analytes, protein expression profiling and quantification of proteins/peptides. Contact Robert M. Straubinger at rms@buffalo.edu or 716-645-2844.