Center for Advanced Technology (NYSTAR)

Facilities

ENERGY STORAGE

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The following  facilities for testing and evaluation of energy storage systems and materials are available at AERTC and SBU:

 

Elemental analysis:

  • Ability to determine elemental composition of materials and in solution

Spectroscopy to map surfaces:

  • Ability to map surfaces to determine local composition

  • Surface area determination

  •  Structural determination of solid

Thermal stability testing:

  • Measure mass loss and phase change as a function of temperature

Battery test capability

  • Cycling, variety of voltage limits and currents are available

  • Temperature control

  • Pulse type testing

  • Determination of heat generated during use

ENERGY GENERATION

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Facilities for testing energy generation systems, such as solar are available at NSERC on the Brookhaven National Laboratory campus:

 

Brookhaven National Laboratory is developing a new Northeast Solar Energy Research Center (NSERC) on its campus that will serve as a solar energy research and test facility for the solar industry. The NSERC will include laboratories for standardized testing in accordance with industry standards, along with a solar PV research array for field testing existing or innovative new technologies under actual northeastern weather conditions.

MATERIALS SYNTHESIS

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Facilities for synthesis of energy-related materials:

 

• 6 Ft Chemical Fume Hood

• Photoresist Spinner

• Oil-Trapped Vacuum Oven

• Ellipsometer

• Ultrasonicator (Elmasonic P120H): Two ultrasonic frequencies, switchable in one unit: 37 kHz und 80 kHz

• Benchtop PH Meter (Mettler Toledo)

• Microbalance (Mettler Toledo XS3DU): maximum capacity: 800.0 mg; 3.1g

MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION

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Facilities for characterization of energy-related materials:

 

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (TEM), JEOL JEM 1400

  • Resolution (Lattice Image/ Point Image): 0.20 nm/ 0.38 nm

  • Optimized take-off angle for best peak-to-background ratios and light element detection

  • UPRIGHT CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE, Leica TCS SP8 X

  • Upright Leica DM 6000 with adaptive focus, motorized XY-Stage (15 nm step size) and Super Z Galvo (1500µm/ 3 nm step size)

  • Tandem scanner 8 KHz:

  • Detection range: 400-800 nm

  • Internal detection channels: 2xPMT, 2x HyD

  • Transmitted light detectors: BF (Brightfield) prism for DIC measurement in confocal mode

  • Equipped with Tokai Hit Stage Incubator providing 37˚C and 5% CO2 for live cell imaging

 

SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE WITH HYSITRON ATTACHMENT, Bruker Dimension ICON

  • Materials mapping

  • Nanomechanics characterization

  • Nanoelectrical characterization

  • Biological characterization

 

AMG EVOS FL MICROSCOPY

  • Light cubes: DAPI (Ex 360nm/ Em 447nm), GFP (ex 470 nm/ Em 525 nm), RFP (Ex 530nm/ Em 593 nm), White (for non-transparent samples)

  • Objectives: 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x LWD objectives and 100x coverslip-corrected oil objective

  • Equipped with Bioptechs stage temperature controller providing 37˚C for live cell observation

  • THERMOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

  • Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA, TA Q50):

  • Temp. range: ambient+5~1000oC

  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC, TA Q2000):

  • Temp. range:  -90~550 oC

  • Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA, TA Q800):  Temp. range:  -145~600 oC

  • Thermal Conductivity Meter (DTC-300): Temp. range: -20~300 oC;

  • Thermal conductivity range: 0.1~40 W/m.K

 

SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY, Horiba UVISEL FUV

  • Thin film thickness from 1 Å to 30 µm

  • Surface and interface roughness

  • Optical constants (n, k) for isotropic, anisotropic and graded films

  • Characterization of thickness and optical constants in the VIS-FUV spectral range of thin films and multilayer stacks for:

  • Dielectrics

  • High k, low k materials

  • Photo resists

  • Plastics

  • Amorphous semiconductors

  • Thin metal films

  • Glass

  • Polymers

 

TEM SAMPLE PREPARATION

  • Leica EM UC7 with Cryo Attachment

  • High quality ultra-microtome for precise room temperature and cryo sectioning (-15~ -185˚C)

GRID MODELING

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High-performance computation facilities for modeling grid-tied energy storage and distributed generation :

 

 New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS)

The New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS) assists industry in the Long Island region, New York City and New York State in the utilization of high performance computing to gain a competitive edge in product development and data management that translates into job creation, cost savings and job retention.

 

NYCCS is a joint venture between Stony Brook University's Institute for Advanced Computational Science and Brookhaven National Laboratory's Computational Science Center. These centers have a core group of scientists and faculty who work to apply and develop high performance computing for science. They have a mission to support and expand the community of users of high performance computing for science discovery and technology development.

 

High Performance Computing Resources

 

The Center's Blue Gene/P has one rack and can run threaded code. The Center also hosts two Blue Gene/Q research supercomputers: a one-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q for general purpose research that boasts 16 cores per compute node, links together 16384 processors, runs threaded code, has total peak performance of 200 teraflop, and placed fifth on the June 2012 Graph 500 benchmark list; and a two-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q for use by the BNL Riken Research Center.