The Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in USC

The Micro/Nanofluidics Lab in USC has over 1000 square feet of well-equipped state-of-the-art laboratory. We study fundamentals and applications of micro/nanofluidc devices for life science and other engineering.

Optical Instruments

• Stimulated Emission Depletion System for far field nanoscopic bioimaging system

• Far field nanoscopic laser induced fluorescence photobleaching anemometer system

• Coherent Sabre Krypton tunable UV-NIR laser  (Coherent)

• LaVision PIV system

• 405nm laser  (Crystalaser)

• 2Watt 532nm diode pumped solid state laser (OEM laser system)

• 350 mW 473 nm diode pumped solid state laser

• 100 mW 473 nm laser

• Olympus inverted epifluorescence microscopes (IX70, Olympus)

• Nikon inverted microscopes   

• Olympus PME microscope

• Cooke SensiCam QE Camera (high speed, Cooke corp.)

• Photomultipliers tube (R1464, R943,  H957-08, Hamamatsu,  )

• Large area UV photoreceiver  (New Focus)

• Photodiodes with amplifiers

• Anti-vibration optical tables (Thorlab)

• He-Ne lasers (Newport Inc.),

• Piezo Nano 3D positioning Stage (E664, PI)

• 3D Translation stages (Newport, Mellesgriot)

• High performance beam expander (Newport)

• Objective 100X NA 1.4 oil PlanApo, 10X, 20X, 40X, UPlanFL  (Olympus)

• Lenses, optical filters, optical fiber, mechanical parts and etc.

• Single photon counting APD detector (Ultra-low noise <20Hz id100-MMF50, Boston Electronics Corp.)

Electronic test instruments

• Oscilloscope (4 GS/s, 4 channels, LeCroy 9384CL),

• Digital delay / pulse generator (DG535, Stanford Research System)

• Keithley 248 high voltage power supply (Keithley Instruments Inc)

Water channel of confined mixing layer.

• Oscilloscope (BK Precision)

• Micro driver controller (Newport)

• DC power supply (0~100V 6634B, Agilent)

• DC power supply E3611A (0~25V, HP)

• DC power supply (0~20V, HY1803DL)

• Multimeter (34401A, HP )

• AD Convertor (USB-6259, NI)

• Two AFG3102 function generators from Tektronix

• High voltage power supply (0~8000v, 5 channels) (EMCO Inc.)

• Laser displacement sensor and controller (3)  (Keyence)

• Low-noise current preamplifier SR570 (Stanford Research System)

• Stanford research SR620 frequency counter (Stanford Research System)

 

General lab equipments

 

• 3 PHD Syringe pumps (Harvard apparatus)

• Branson ultrasonic cleaner (BRANSONICR )

• vortex mixer (Fisher Scientific),

• Barnstead ultrapure water system (Nanopure DiamondTM)

• Electronic weighing balances (METTLER AT261 DeltaRangeR ,Resolution: 0.01mg)

• Thermo NESLAB RTE7 digital bath circulator (Rheology Solutions Pty Ltd)

  The Micro/Nanofluidics Lab in USC.

• Vacuum pump Pascal type 2010 (Alcatel vaccum products Inc.)
• PC-410 Magnetic Stirrer (CorningR)

• Electric Oven (Apothecaries Sundries Mfg. Co.)

 

Microfabrication system

• Wire Bonder (Westband)

 

• Clean room, class 1000

Apparatus

• A water channel