Lab Facilities

Having facilities and equipment spanning PDMS resin, spin coater, desiccator, vacuum pumps, and the workstation for performing all these processes, we are competent in performing any soft-lithography procedures. 

All the experimentation requirements ranging from syringe pumps, microtubes, transducers, and silicon-etched microchannel substrates give the advantage of replicating and analyzing the phenomena on computers in real life. 

A workstation with a multi-core processor equipped with high physical memory and graphics unit provides us an edge in the numerical analysis and computations we investigate. 

The Plasma cleaning & bonding machine of Harrick Plasma proves competent capabilities for plasma bonding applications. 

The RF Amplifier (make - Amplifier Research) and the function generator allows us to induce multiple possible acoustic actuation to the microchannel.

The FLIR Thermal Imager aids us in capturing phenomena involving thermal effects-both in macro and micro scale systems.

A compact hand-held microscope from Dino-lite lets us capture all the phenomena in the microchannel with precision at microns. 

Olympus CKX53 Metallurgical Microscope and Olympus BX53M Optical Microscope conjoined with a camera allows us to get high clarity images at high magnifications.

A Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K resin-based 3D printer along with a UV exposure curing machine helps us print microchips for soft lithography techniques to obtain microchannels on PDMS and other such materials.