ANNUAL REPORT 2011 - University of Cape Town

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4. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY The NanoSciences Innovation Centre is currently housed in the Physics Department at the University of Cape Town, where the available space is not optimal for its extensive equipment infrastructure. However, it is expected that more suitable accommodation will become available in late 2012. In-house equipment includes the following state of the art laboratory scale characterisation facilities, as well as all the requirements of a well-found laboratory: Spire Spi Cell AM1.5 solar cell tester (figure 5 left), Lake Shore 7700 cryogenic Hall measurement system, Keithley 4200 semiconductor characterisation system, Wyko NT9100 optical profiler (figure 5 right, a unique facility in Africa), and a Delta Nu Advance 532 Raman spectrometer. Other in-house equipment includes printing and deposition equipment, such as an Atma 60PD semi automatic screen printer, and sample preparation facilities. Besides being used in house, the characterisation facilities of the centre are regularly used by staff and students from all three local universities and iThemba LABS. Access to major equipment is provided through the University of Cape Town and external collaborations, including the NanoPower Africa Network of which Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory are partners, which guarantees access to synchrotron and neutron scattering experiments. High resolution transmission and scanning electron microscopy is available on site in the neighbouring UCT Electron Microsocope Unit. Figure 5: State of the art equipment in the NanoSciences Innovation Centre: Spire SPI CELL solar cell tester (left) and Wyko NT9100 Optical Profiler (right) 14
4.1 External Use of Infrastructure in 2011 Wyko NT9100 profiler: Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UCT iThemba LABS University of the Western Cape Raman Spectrometer: Dept. of Human Biology, UCT University of the Western Cape University of Stellenbosch Lake Shore 7700 HMS: Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UCT iThemba LABS University of Stellenbosch 15
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