ARCHIVES
August 2021 - Louisiana Board of Regents awards grant to expand the role of Plasma Etching at LSU into the 21st century. The Oxford 100 ICP/RIE tool will undergo enhancements to the current system while incorporating new plasma etching capabilities currently not offered in the state of Louisiana. (Upgrade completed April 2023)
August 2020 - LSU Faculty awarded NSF grant acquiring a Near - Field Optical Microscope (Installation completed January 2022)
May 2020 - Research group discover alloy beneficial for military operations using Spectroscopic Ellipsometer data
May 2024 - (9) students completed the Spring semester "Special Topics" course offered at the NFF
December 2023 - The fall semester "Special Topics" course offered at the NFF completed
November 2023 X-Ray Diffractometry now available with the installation of the Bruker D8
May 2023 - LSU engineering students completed the first "Special Topics Course" offered at the NFF
April 2023 - The Oxford PlasmaLab 100 (ICP/DRIE) - "Bosch Process" upgrade completed
January 2023 - The NFF welcomes the addition of the J.A. Woollam IR-Vase Mark II Ellipsometer to its fleet of characterization tools. The IR -Vase covers the wide spectral range from 1.7 - 30 microns (333 -5900 wavenumbers)
March 2022 - Rapid Thermal Processing capabilities now available with the installation of the Jipelec JetFirst RTP/RTA
January 2022 - The neaSpec Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope is now operational. The microscope combines nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy all in one tool
August 2021 - The Temescal E-beam Evaporator upgrade completed with new controls that allow multi-layer deposition and automatic rate control. A new dry pump and cryopump were added to improve pump down time. Deposition materials available: Au, Cr, Cu, In, Ni, Pt and Ti
2024
LSU Chemical Enigneering Graduate Student design microfluidic shearing device using soft lithography techniques highlighting use of the Microwriter ML3 Pro at the NFF. Click here for full article
2023
University of Louisiana @Lafayette, Mechanical Enigneering graduate student utilized the NFF for research identifiying the use of metallic nanoparticles to fabricate electronic devices. Clink link for the full article
LSU Mechanical Engineering graduate student published results from "Chip-based extended nano-Coulter counter (XnCC) that can detect nanoparticles affinity-selected from biological samples"
2022
Polarimetry data collected at the NFF instrumental in the development of an ultraviolet metasurface that can detect weak biomolecular activity, aiding in the discovery of neurodegenerative diseases at the early stages. Click the link for the full article
LSU Chemical Engineering PhD student's SEM images taken at the NFF featured on the cover of the July/August 2022 edition of the "Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology" For the full paper click here
2021
2020
Understanding the activity of ions in thin film block copolymer electrolytes
LSU PhD candidate and professor published in Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Article entitled "Critical Coupling of Visible Light Extends Hot Electron Lifetimes for H2O2 Synthesis."
2019