Techniques and equipment
This technique allows probing of sample surfaces down to 0.2 nm.
What is atomic force microscopy?
This age came before humans learned to work with metal.
This laboratory had a pulsed laser deposition system.
This demonstration used liquid nitrogen.
What is LN2 ice cream, superconductivity, Leidenfrost layers, etc?
This day we used a big laser.
What is Monday?
This technique allows deposition of thin films of complex oxides down to single atomic layers.
What is: pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, or atomic layer deposition?
This age was the most recent one identified by a metal.
What is the Iron Age?
This laboratory had an atomic force microscope.
What is Meyers laboratory of Venture 1 or microscopy laboratory?
This demonstration used a laser.
What is double slit experiment, diffraction gratings, etc?
This device cost approximately $400,000.
What is Pulsed Laser Deposition?
This machine allows us to measure electrical transport properties of materials.
What is a physical property measurement system or PPMS?
What is the copper age?
This laboratory has lots of different deposition equipment like atomic layer deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, chemical vapor deposition.
What is the Dave McIllroy's laboratory?
This demonstration made water appear to drop upwards.
What is light strobe or oscillator or wave function generator?
This device let us look at bugs too close for comfort.
What is scanning electron microscope?
This machine allows us to look at the surface of objects down to 10s of nanometers resolution?
What is a scanning electron microscope?
The current age (depending on who you talk to...).
What is the modern age or Information Age or industrial age?
This laboratory had a quantum design physical property measurement system.
What is cowboy microfabriocation corral or Mohammad Hadidi's laboratory?
This demonstration can cause dizziness.
What is angular momentum?
The RHEED system on the PLD used these to look at the surface flatness.
What are electrons?
This instrument allows us to observe lives cells dividing in real time.
What is confocal microscope?
This age was the first identified by an alloy of different metals.
What is the Bronze Age?
This laboratory studied magnetic materials.
What is Julius de Rojas's laboratory?
This demonstration showed a magnet levitating.
What is high temperature superconductivity?
What are x-rays?