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Microelectronics

The Hedco Microelectronics Laboratory, a College of Engineering facility, has close ties to the department. It provides opportunities for instruction and research in the properties of materials and in integrated circuit fabrication. Students build their own transistors in the Hedco Laboratory. This lab is also used for fabricating integrated circuits, chemical sensors, and micromachined devices.

Microwaves and Electromagnetics

The microwave research laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and sophisticated research facilities almost unique to academia. Facilities in these laboratories include the network analysis laboratory, the indoor antenna range and dielectric properties measurement facilities. The network analysis laboratory houses an HP8510 (45 MHz to 26.5 GHz), its millimeter wave upgrade (26.5 to 40 GHz), and an HP8753 network analyzer (300 KHz to 6 GHz). The laboratory is used for measuring and characterizing microwave components and devices, both in time and frequency domains; high-frequency characterization of semiconductor packages; and dielectric properties measurements.

Available Equipment in the Microwave Lab includes:

Reference antennas:

• 1 - A.R.A. model DRG 118A Reference horn antenna (1 to 18 ghz)
• 1 – AD-100 Reference dipole set (30Mhz to 1 Ghz)

Signal/Response measurement devices:

• Network analyzers
  • 2 – HP 8510B: 45 Mhz to 20 Ghz
  • 1 – HP 8753C: 300 Khz to 6 Ghz
  • 1 – HP 8702B: 300 Khz to 6 Ghz
  • 3 – Agilent ENA E5071C: 9 Khz to 8.5 Ghz
• Sweep generators
  • 2 – HP 8350 10 Mhz to 20 Ghz
  • 1 – HP 83622A 2 Ghz to 20 Ghz
• Vector signal generators
  • 2 – Agilent E4438 250 khz to 6 Ghz
  • 2 – Agilent MXG N5181A 100 khz to 6 Ghz
• Vector signal Analyzer
  • 1 – Agilent 89600 DC to 2.7 Ghz
• Spectrum analyzers
  • 2 – Agilent E4405B 9 kHz to 13.2 Ghz
  • 1 – HP 8592B 9 kHz to 26.5 Ghz
  • 2 – Agilent CSA N1996A 100 kHz to 6 Ghz

Digital oscilloscopes

• 2 – Agilent 5833A 2 and 4 GSample/sec
• 1 – HP 54750A 20 Ghz TDR /50 Ghz O-scope

Power systems:

• Microwave amps:
  • 2 – HP 8349B 2 Ghz to 20 Ghz
  • 1 – HP 11975A 2 Ghz to 8 Ghz

Pattern measurement platform:

Orbit FR – azimuth and roll positioning system includes

• 1 - 422 controller
• 1 – 560-1 azithum poistioner
• 1 – 160-1 roll positioner
• 1 – PC platform with 959 measurement software and data acquisition

Fabrication equipment:

• LPKF – 91s circuit mill with RF precision milling/drilling bits

Optics

There is a teaching lab for laser classes in the Merrill Engineering Building, and a Center for Raman Technology that develops and tests new designs and methods for using Raman Spectroscopy in a wide variety of settings. Optics is claiming an increasingly important role in leading-edge electrical engineering. The Optics Lab is used by both undergraduates and graduate students studying this important area.