Facilities
In the School of Physics and Advanced Materials, we ensure that our students and researchers are supported through access to the latest technologies and equipment.
The University and UTS: Science’s commitment to providing cutting-edge facilities and equipment is demonstrated in the recent investment of over $100 million to build new state-of-the-art laboratories and practical science facilities at its Broadway City Campus. By providing access to facilities, our students and researchers gain the experience they’ll need in using the instruments they’ll encounter in their professional careers in industry and the real-world.
The School has a range of optical, structural and compositional characterisation and computational facilities used by undergraduate, honours and postgraduate students, as well as research scientists and academic staff.
Below is a list of the School instrumentations:
Optical characterisation
- UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer (CAREY)
- Phase modulated Ellipsometer (Jbon Yvon)
- Fluorescent spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)
- Photogoniometer (scattering and BRTF studies)
- Rotating integrating sphere UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer for accurate arbitrary incidence angle translucent and transparent
- Windbourn Emissometer (total hemispherical emittance)
- Hagner Photometer (secondary standard)
- Two large integrating spheres for mirror light pipes, lamps and luminescent solar collector characterisation
- "Outdoor" test room for prototype daylighting system testing
- Software – advanced surface and thin film modelling and data fitting for ellipsometric and spectrophotometric data, effective medium modelling, scattering and em finite element models, surface plasmon and metal based nanophotonics software.
Thin film coating, nanoparticle production, polymer fibres and sheets
- RF & DC sputtering
- Multiple e-beam and thermal evaporation chambers
- Magnetically filtered Cathodic arc ( continuous and pulsed units)
- Spin coating from solution
- Nanoparticle in vacuum production and coating units
- Optical Polymer production (resources with industry partners) for casting, moulding, all polymer composites, sheet, rigid and flexible fibre optic for lighting, pre-forms for polymer microstructured fibre, large luminescent solar concentrator sheets, nanoparticle and dye doped polymer foils and sheets.
Structural and compositional characterisation
(Instruments operated in collaboration with the Centre of Expertise Micro-structural Analysis Unit and UTS Institute for Nanoscale Technology)
- XPS
- Schottky FEGSEM
- NSOM
- AFM/STM
- Cathodoluminescence
- E-beam lithography
- Direct e-beam milling and etching (coming)
- TEM/EELS (with Sydney University)
- X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering (powder, thin films) with some Synchrotron studies
Computational resources
UTS: Science maintains a number of teaching laboratories equipped with PCs and iMacs.
The University and UTS:Science is a partner to the National Computing Infrastructure Facility located in Canberra and to the NSW Intersect consortium. Access to high performance computing is available to staff and students through these facilities.
