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Femtosecond pulse laser-based pump-probe time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) modulated at MHz frequencies - for probing thermal transport on nano- to micron- scales
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Unipol-802 polisher
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Seeder-based single longitudinal mode nanosecond pulse lasers 
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Linkam heating stage 120C
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Linkam heating stage 1000C
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Oxford Instruments optical cryostat (2.7 - 500K) 
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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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Contact

Prof. Zhandos Utegulov

 

Office 339, Block 7 (extension)

Department of Physics,

School of Sciences and Humanities,

Nazarbayev University

53 Kabanbai Batyr, 

Astana 010000, Kazakhstan

 

NU profile: https://research.nu.edu.kz/en/persons/zhandos-utegulov/
Research group website: www.amrelat.nu.edu.kz

Phone: +7 7172 70 65 54, +7 705 706 4455

Email: zhutegulov@nu.edu.kz​
 

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