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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
CLEANROOM EVENTSDecember 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
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