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Advanced Materials Research & Laser Technologies (AMRELAT) Laboratory
Femtosecond pulse laser-based pump-probe time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) modulated at MHz frequencies - for probing thermal transport on nano- to micron- scales

CW Millenia eV pumped Spectra PhysicsTsunami ultrafast laser (100 fs, 780 nm, 100 MHz, 2W)
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Conoptics electro-optic modulator (1 - 10 MHz)
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SR 844 RF lock-in amplifier
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Newport scanning 60 cm-long motorized stage (total delay time = 4 ns)
CW laser- based frequency- (FDTR) and spatial- domain (SDTR) thermoreflectance modulated at kHz frequencies - for probing thermal transport properties over micron scale

Pump laser: CW Coherent OBIS LX 660 nm
Probe laser: CW Coherent OBIS LX 785 nm
RIGOL DG4062 functional generator (modulation 1 - 100 kHz)
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SR830 RF Lock-in amplifier
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Newport VP-5XA Motorized stage for mapping and SDTR probing
Raman thermometry, spectroscopy and microscopy - for probing micro-scale thermal transport and vibrational properties of non- metallic materials

SOL Instruments Nanofinder Raman spectrograph F=350 mm
Torus CW 532 nm & 633 nm SLM lasers
Navigator 1064 nm & 532 nm nanosecond pulse lasers
Confocal microscope
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Andor iStar iCCD and static CCD
Alma easyLab diamond anvill cell
Scanning motorized stage
Brillouin light scattering spectrosocpy and microscopy - for probing elastic, photoelastic and visco-elastic properties in functional materials at GHz frequencies

JRS scanning 6-pass Fabry-Perot interferometer TFP-2
Single photon counting photodetector
Coherent Verdi G2 CW 532 nm single longitudinal mode laser
Confocal microscope
Table Stable TCF Laser filter to suppress secondary resonant modes
Camera viewer
Nanosecond laser ultrasonics - for probing elastic and acoustic properties at MHz frequencies

QLI Q2HE-II Nanosecond pulse laser
Bossa Nova Tempo two- wave mixing photorefractive interferometer)
2.5 GHz pscilloscope
Fraunhofer laser acoustic thin film testing system

Unipol-802 polisher

Seeder-based single longitudinal mode nanosecond pulse lasers



Linkam heating stage 120C

Linkam heating stage 1000C

Oxford Instruments optical cryostat (2.7 - 500K)

Fabrication, structural characterization and imaging techniques
(availble at NU Core Facility
https://cf.nu.edu.kz/facilities-instrumentation):
Nanofabrication Facility
Magnetron Sputtering System I - LAB-18 (Kurt J. Lesker)
Magnetron Sputtering System II - CMS-18 (Kurt J. Lesker)
MTI Slidable Dual Zone PECVD Tube Furnace
Ultratech FIJI G2 Atomic Layer Deposition System
Confocal laser scanning microscope LSM 780 (Zeiss)
Atomic force microscope - NT-MDT
Rigaku SmartLab PXRD
High-Resolution SEM - JEOL JSM IT-800SL
Sentech SENresearch 4.0 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer
Bruker DektakXT Stylus Profilometer
Dual beam analytical FIB/SEM - Carl Zeiss CrossBeam-540
Nanomanipulator FIB/SEM - ThermoFisher Scientific Helios-5CX
Smart daily-task SEM - JEOL JSM IT-200LA
Benchtop SEM - JEOL JCM-7000 NeoScope

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