Facilities

The Dimensional Materials Laboratory (DML), directed by Prof. Kevin M. Daniels, is nearly 1000 square feet of lab space located in the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP). The lab contains equipment devoted to producing and characterizing 2D materials and investigating their response to gas and biomolecules and office space for undergraduate and graduate researchers.

PlanarTECH three-tube thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system for growth of:

Graphene and Annealing [2″ 3-zone thermal furnace (1400C)]

Transition metal dichalcogenides [2″ 3 zone thermal furnace (1100C)] (MoS2, MnS2, etc.)

Samarium Hexaboride [2″ 1 sliding zone thermal furnace (1100C)]

Gamry Reference 3000 potentiostat/galvanostat

Various electrochemical cells

An eight-foot fume hood for sample preparation and electrochemistry research

Heated ultrasonicator, 2x high-temperature hot plates with magnetic stirring, spin-coater, two high accuracy semi-micro balances

Gas sensing chamber

Custom gas sensing chamber equipped with an Ideal Vacuum 9x9x9 IdealCube vacuum chamber and Iwata scroll pump and Pirani gauge capable of pressures down to 10-3 torr, a Keysight source measure unit, an Owlstone OVG-4 calibration gas generator capable of generating complex gas compositions with up to 6 permeation tubes, an Owlstone humidity generator capable of generating 1-90% room humidity,  4x MKS 10 sccm Mass Flow Controllers (N2, NH3, NO2, and CH4) and a 0.5 Tesla permanent magnet for in-situ Hall measurements.

Three custom-built testing systems  with high frequency (125kHz) galvanostat, microprocessor module, touchscreen interface, and cloud storage link for portable medical screening and gas sensing

Affiliated Facilities/Centers/Institutes

The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

Maryland Nanocenter Fablab

Maryland Nanocenter AIMLab

Quantum Materials Center