In addition to well equipped teaching laboratories (General Physics, Sophomore Fundamental Physics, Applied Electronics, Modern Physics), there are research laboratories in various fields. Names of laboratories and major equipment are listed below:

(I) Expensive equipment for Department-wide usage:

SQUID
16T Superconducting Magnet System
Mask Aligner
Reactive Ion Etching System
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
Magnetic Force Microscope (MFM)
Far infrared laser & 7T Magnet

(II) Superconductor & Cryoelectronics Lab:

Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS)
Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
Surface Force Microscope (AFM / MFM) and Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
Surface Texture Measurement System (Dektak a -step)
Optical Microscope with a CCD Camera
Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) System
Thermal Evaporation System
Magnetron rf Sputtering System
High-Temperature Programmable Ovens
Ar + Ion Beam Etching System
Wire Bonder for Devices
RF Shielding Room
Resistivity Measurement System
SQUID Characterization System
Impedance Analyzer
Spectrum Analyzer (100 kHz)
Vector Network Analyzer (3 GHz)
High-Tc SQUID MCG System
High-Tc SQUID NDE System 		 

(III) Semiconductor Physics Lab:

Photo chemical vapor deposition system
Plasma chemical vapor deposition system
Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition system
Photo-luminescence (PL) and photo- luminescence exitation system (PLE)
Far-infrared and Infrared Fourier transform spectrometers
Deep-Level transient spectrometer
Ar+ laser
He-Cd laser, excimer laser, CO2 laser, FIR laser
Superconducting magnet (9T)
C-V and I-V characterization system
0.3K top loading 3He system
Hall effect system
10K closed cycle refrigerator
micro-infrared spectrometer
micro-Raman spectrometer
near-field optics
micro-photolumines spectrometer

(IV) Optics and Spectroscopy Lab:

LASERS: argon ion lasers; Nd; YLF laser; helium/neon lasers; dye laser; Ti: sapphire laser.
SPECTROSCOPIC EQUIPMENTS: 6.7m vacuum ultraviolet spectrograph; 3.4m Ebert spectrograph/monochromator; compact monochromators; optical spectroscopic multichannel analyzer.
DETECTING EQUIPMENTS: illumination meter; photomultiplier system; autocorrelator; oscilloscopes; laser powermeters.
OTHER OPTICAL DEVICES: optical table; acousto-optical modulator system; electro-optic modulator system; Babinet-Soleil compensator.

(V) Magnetics Lab:

Multi-gun sputtering system with rotating substrate holder
Multi-gun sputtering system with rapildly quenched capability for substrate holder
Vibrating sample magnetometer (100K-1000K)
Magnetoresistance measurement system
-T Measurement system
AFM/MFM microscope

(VI) Nanomagnetism Lab:

Multifunction Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) Preparation
Analysis System
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES)
Medium Energy Electron Diffraction (MEED)
Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED & I/V-LEED)
Ion Gun
UHV-VT-Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM)
Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE)
4-Probe Manetoresistance Measurement System
UHV-Sputtering-PLD-System

(VII) Quantum Transport Lab:

3He fridge; 4He low-temperature superconducting magnet system (1.5K, 6T)
High vacuum thermal evaporation system
Arc-melt furnace
Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope
Low-level signals measuring system
Close-cycled Refrigerators 		 

(VIII) Computer room for Lattice Gauge Theories:

A Linux PC cluster has been constructed for the numerical simulations in lattice gauge theories, in particular, for lattice QCD. In May 2003, we have completed a cluster of 54 nodes, each consisting of Pentinum 4 (1.6-2.53 GHZ) processor, 1-2 Gbyte Rambus/DDR, and 40-120 Gbyte hard disk. For our codes on lattice QCD with exact chiral symmetry, the total (substained) computing power of our present PC cluster is 60 Gflops.

(IX) Nano Science & Technology Lab:

Atomic Force Microscopy
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
Near-Field Optical Microscope
Near-Field Spectrometer
PC Cluster

(X) Photonics Lab:

Fiber Puller
Optical Disk Sputter
Fiber Coater
Various Laser Light Sources
Spectrometer

(XI) High Energy Physics Lab:

CAMAC Crate with GPIB Controller, TDC's, ADC's and Scaler, linked with PC as DAQ system.
NIM Crate (with second spare) with Pulse Generator, HV Power Supply, Gate, Discriminator, FAN-IN/FAN-OUT, Amplifier, Scaler, etc.
Various work benches for scintillating crystal property tests, photoelectric devices, drift chambers, prototyping of circuit boards.
laminating machine
EP9702 PCB PROTOTYPE machine
stepping motor and PC3 programmable motor-drived stage controller
fine-mesh PMT modules
TEXONO DAQ item
circuit writer
silicon detector
optics microscope
drilling machine
weighing scale
VME modules, Sparc CPU control module, ADC, flash ADC
Fastbus modules, TDC
2GHz 4 Channel digiziting oscilloscope
Logic analyzer
digiziting LCR detector
PC farm (K7 900 24 sets)

(XII) Microscopic Biophysics Lab:

Inverted and upright research grade microscopes
High sensitivity CCD camera
Optical tables
Basic wet chemistry laboratory equipments (centrifuge, fume hood, deionized water supply, etc.)

(XIII) Condensed Matter Theory Compating Lab:

AMD 25 Node K7 PC cluster (1)
Compaq XP1000 Alpha Workstation (1)
SGI O200 4 CPU Server (1)
SGI O2 Graphic Workstation (1)
Pentium III Linux and WIN98 PCs (5)

(X IV) Astrophysics Computing Lab:

AMGLAS Cluster: 35nodes, each with 2-way SMP Machine;70 CPUs(AMD Athlon MP CPU)
Performance: Linpack : 90GFlops with Rmax=16400, 6 days with 2x256x256x256 N-Body TreeMethod Simulation( IBM SP2 SMP need 9 days)

(X V) Liquid Crystical Electro-Optical Lab:

Transmission Electron Microscope(TEM )
High sensitivity CCD camera
Optical tables
Ultra high-resolution ac calorimeter

 

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