Annual Report- Part III - Florida Energy Systems Consortium

Microelectronics LaboratoryDirector: Susan K. Earles, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringContact InformationEmail: earles@fit.edu Phone: (321)394-2171DescriptionThis microelectronics facility is designed to be a teaching laboratory as well as an advanced researchlaboratory. A microelectronics fabrication course is taught to graduate and undergraduate students. In thiscourse, students complete, fabricate and test a variety of electronic devices such as photovoltaic devices andhydrogen sensors. Research conducted in the facility includes polymer-based and silicon-based electronicand optoelectronic devices. The 3,800-sq.-ft. facility has all support services needed for modernsemiconductor research including a 3,000-sq.-ft. clean room and areas dedicated to circuit testing andequipment maintenance. Equipment in the laboratory includes ultraviolet photolithography, diffusionfurnaces, a thin-film evaporator, wet chemistry benches, and measurement and inspection equipment. Theadvanced research laboratory presently features a scanning probe microscope, plasma enhanced depositionand lasers for teaching and research.Fee ScheduleFacility use is negotiated on a per-proposal basis.Laser, Optics and Instrumentation Laboratory (LOIL)Web Site Link: http://research.fit.edu/loil/Director: Kunal Mitra, Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Chelakara Subramanian, Ph.D.,P.Eng (UK), Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Co-Directors.Contact InformationEmail: kmitra@fit.edu Phone: (321)674-7131DescriptionLOIL exploits current technologies in continuous wave and short-pulse lasers and optics to develop newtechniques for measuring and characterizing material properties. Faculty and graduate students are involvedin analyzing the interaction of these lasers with different materials for various applications. Biomedicalapplications focus on detecting and irradiating cancer/tumors and in homogeneities in tissues. Materialcharacterization/processing applications involve detection of defects in materials such as debonding ofthermal protection tile systems and thermal response of materials subjected to high-energy radiation.Remote sensing applications focus on lightning detection in cloud media and landmines in shallow waters.The challenge of integrating laser sources, system optics, instrumentation, measurement schemes and dataacquisition provides students with new learning experiences in these areas. Major equipment currently inuse includes mode-locked short-pulse laser, Q-switched pulsed laser, short pulse diode laser, high-powercontinuous wave lasers, ultrafast photodetectors, sampling head oscilloscope, streak camera, miscellaneousoptics and optical accessories, thermal camera and an image processing system.Fee ScheduleFacility use is negotiated on a per-proposal basis.219