The Woodall Research Lab is room 1123 in Ghausi Hall on the UC Davis Main Campus. Ghausi Hall is located caddy-corner to the main ECE building, Kemper Hall. The lab is a 30 x 30 ft room with extensive space for materials synthesis and characterization. In addition, there is ample student workspace and a convenient meeting area in one corner. The lab is equipped with many of the primary facilities necessary for our research including ultrapure water, compressed gas (nitrogen, argon, forming gas, air), cooling water, and ample electrical capacity. In addition, UC Davis is home to many additional resources including the Center for Nano-MicroManufacturing Opens in a new window, where we do most of our device fabrication, and the Advanced Materials Characterization and Testing Lab (AMCaT) Opens in a new window, where we do electron microscopy.

Equipment List (in our lab)

General Lab

• Millipore Milli-Q Reference Ultrapure Water Purification System [specs Opens in a new windowmanual Opens in a new window]
• Coherent 12′ x 5′ Optical Table
• Nitrogen-purged Desiccator
• Mettler-Toledo XS64 Balance (0.1mg resolution) [quick start Opens in a new window]
• Mettler-Toledo FE20 pH Meter [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Hot Plates / Stirrers
• Soldering Stations
• Tools Galore!

Crystal Growth

• Custom Liquid Phase Epitaxy Reactor (100-1100°C)
• Varian / Veeco GEN II Molecular Beam Epitaxy System

Metal Alloy Production

• Blue M Moldatherm Box Furnace (100-1100°C) [specs Opens in a new window]
• Controlled Atmosphere Muffle Furnace (*coming soon)
• Custom Splat Cooling Station

Material Characterization

• Ecopia HMS-5300 Variable Temperature (80-350K) Hall Effect Measurement System [specs Opens in a new window mfg manual Opens in a new window user manual Opens in a new window]
• Acton Research SP300i Imaging Spectrograph [manual Opens in a new window]
• Andor DB-401-UV CCD (200-1100nm) [specs Opens in a new window]
• Coherent OBIS Lasers (405nm and 552nm) [specs Opens in a new window]
• Oriel/Hamamatsu 77361 PMT (400-1100nm @ 800nm peak) [specs Opens in a new window]
• Oriel Spectral Calibration Lamp 6034 Hg(Ne) w/DC Supply [specs Opens in a new windowspectra guide Opens in a new window power supply manual Opens in a new window]
• Nikon SMZ-2t Stereo Microscope w/5MP USB Camera [manual Opens in a new window]
• Olympus Model BHM Metallurgical Microscope with MS Plan Objectives and Nomarski DIC attachments w/5MP USB Camera [specs Opens in a new window]
• Custom Hydrogen Generation Testing Station

Device Characterization

• Keithley 2100 Dual-Display Digital Multimeter [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Stanford Research SR540 Optical Light Chopper [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Newport 1930-C Optical Power Meter [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Keithley 2400 Source Measure Unit [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Coherent FieldMax II Laser Power Meter [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Fluke 114 True RMS Multimeter [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Newport 78025 Mini Monochromator [specs Opens in a new window]
• Hamamatsu E7536 Hg-Xe Lamp [lamp specs Opens in a new window manual1 Opens in a new window manual2]
• Tektronix PS-2520G Power Supply [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Oriel Motorized Filter Wheel 74010 [specs Opens in a new window]
• Oriel Cornerstone 130 Monochromator [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Stanford Research SR830 DSP Lock-In Amplifier [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]
• Stanford Research SR570 Low-Noise Current Preamplifier [specs Opens in a new windowmanual Opens in a new window]
• LabSphere Reflectance Integrating Sphere RT-060-SF w/UV-enhanced Si detector [specs Opens in a new window manual Opens in a new window]

Shared Resources

• Philips X’Pert PRO XRD (w/Triple Axis, RSM)
• FEI 430 NanoSEM (w/Electron Beam Lithography)
• Philips FEG Scanning Electron Microscope (w/SED, BSD, EBSD, EDS, STEM)
• Philips Transmission Electron Microscope (w/BF, DF, STEM, TEM, HAADF, EDS, PEELS)
• AM1.5G Solar Simulator
• LakeShore Cryo Probe
• Cleanroom Facilities in the CNM2 Opens in a new window