Capabilities and Equipment

The SDLE Center labs offer a wide variety of equipment and capabilities in environmental exposure and materials evaluation, including spectrophotometry, scatterometry, and other analysis methods. 

Sample Preparation

• Clean room with deposition and characterization capabilities
• Sample preparation lab for inspection and metallography
• Mini-module lab for sample lamination 

Exposures

Light Lab:

• Newport 1-50x suns solar simulator 
• Newport 1-8x suns solar simulator
• Spectrolab XT-30 100-1200x suns solar simulator

Environmental Test Chamber Lab:

• Q-Lab QUV-Spray chambers with condensing humidity
• Q-Lab Q-Sun Xe-3HS with condensing humidity and spray
• Q-Lab Q-Fog cyclic corrosion testing
• CSZ : 2 MCHS-3, 1 ZPH-8 ETCs
• CSZ: SPHS-100 ETC with integrated fullsun HID light rack

• VUV-LPLS spectrophotometer
• VUV-VASE ellipsometer 
• Small-spot UV spectrometer 
• Cary 6000i UV-Vis spectrometer with diffuse reflectance accessory
• ScatterMaster scatterometer
• Wyatt Dawn MALS Scatterometer
• HunterLabs Ultrascan Pro spectrometer 
• Digital signal processing, I-V characterization, signal generation and automated testers for electrical property evaluation

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