Facilities and Equipment

Professor Henderson's group maintains a variety of equipment for the synthesis, characterization, and modeling of polymers and organic materials and for the microfabrication of devices. Among the key pieces of equipment in his group's laboratories are the following items:

GPU Computing Cluster

• The Henderson group has built and maintains a cluster of 20 Intel dual core processor based workstations that are each equipped with an 4 NVidia GTX 1080Ti graphics processing units (GPU).
• This translates into roughly 1 Petaflop of computing power and is used primarily for highly parallelized computing tasks such as molecular dynamics simulations of block copolymer phase separation.

Laboratory Equipment

• Bruker Vertex FTIR system with FTIR microscope, powder Raman accessory, ATR cell, etc.
• TA Instruments TGA-MS (thermogravimetric analyzer with mass spectrometer)
• TA Instruments DSC (differential scanning calorimeter)
• MBraun glovebox for air sensitive chemistry
• J.A. Woollam V-VASE variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer
• J.A. Woollam M-2000 variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer
• 300 sq. ft. class 10 cleanroom
• ORIEL DUV Exposure Tool
• ORIEL I-line Exposure Tool
• Brewer Science CEE-100CB Spin Coat and Bake System
• Graphene synthesis furnace
• Maxtek RQCM quartz crystal microbalance system with controlled flow cell system
• Q-Sense QCM-D quartz crystal microbalance
• VCA2000 contact angle measurement system
• Custom UV-VIS thin film reflectometer
• Brewer Science CEE-100CB Spin Coat and Bake System
• Rapid thermal cycling system bakeplate system
• Custom DMD mirror chip-based stereolithography system
• PAL pulsed alexandrite laser system
• Agilent / Molecular Imaging PicoPlus AFM