Facilities

No distinction is made between Teaching and Research Facilities; students are encouraged to make use of our equipment for Collaborative Research and Independent Projects.

• Two up-to-date teaching classroom with latest computer-interfaced laboratory equipment and teaching software.
• Electronics Laboratory
• Physics Instrumentation Laboratory
• Machine Shop
• Low-Temperature Solid State Characterization Laboratory.
• Materials Science Sample Preparation Facilities.
• Computational-Science lab with Two UNIX, two LINUX, and two Mac OS X platforms.
• Time-resolved (~500 ps) low temperature (~3K) photo-luminescence/fluorescence system.
• Magneto-Optical Trap apparatus for cooling and trapping of Cesium atoms and ultracold molecule formation and spectroscopy.
• External cavity diode laser systems with active stabilization.
• Pulsed and cw laser systems for ultracold molecule formation and spectroscopy.
• Quesant Atomic Force Microscope
• 14" CGE 1400 XLT Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with, equipped with GPS, an SBIG ST-8E CCD camera with an automated filter system for color photographs. The telescope can also be fitted with an spectrometer.
• Three Celestron 6-in NexStar SE fully automatic telescopes.
• One Meade LX50 8" telescopes for solar observing.
• Radio telescope CASSI.