Structural characterisation of solid materials and immobilised substances on solids.
It enables the analysis of very diverse materials:
- Soil, wood, cellulose
- Ceramic materials
- Polymers
- Polymorphs, glass, metal and alloys
- Porous materials such as zeolites and aluminosilicates
- Nanoparticles
- Studies on solid organometallic complexes.
Small molecule structure elucidation: elucidation of connectivity, stereochemical configuration and conformation.
Structural characterisation of nanoparticles and their interactions with substrates.
Mobility studies and molecular dynamics.
Monitoring of chemical processes: kinetics.
Determination of association and molecular interaction processes.
Studies at variable temperatures.
Mixture analysis, component quantification and determination.
Studies on molecular dissemination, size and mobility.
Studies on chemical reaction mechanisms, characterisation of reaction intermediates, acquisition of kinetic and thermodynamic reaction parameters.
Studies on molecular interactions, association processes determination and host-guest affinity molecular interaction, enzyme-substrate molecular recognition.
- Multi-Channel GTEC biosignal amplifier for ECG, EEG, EOG and biomedical signal aquisition.
- Multi-Channel Whole-Head EEG acquisition.
- Wireless biosignal amplifiers for EOG.
- NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS Acquisition Cards and Signal Digitizing.
Determination of the cellular fatty acid composition of microbial strains using gas chromatography.
The technique includes a specific setup for the measurement of different optical parameters of nanostructured materials or photonic/plasmonic nanostructures, including a basic fluidics/dispensing system for chemical sensing and biosensing experiments. This resource is part of the fibre optics laboratory.
Computer-aided design package for the design of integrated and printed circuits.
- Linux server 8 Core Intel Xeon X5450 3.0 GHz 16GB RAM 1.5TB hard disk in RAID5.
- Linux server 8 Core Intel Xeon X5355 2.66 GHz 32GB RAM 2.5TB hard disk in RAID5
- Linux server 16 Core Intel Xeon E5530 2.40 GHz 72 GB RAM 2.5TB hard disk in RAID5.
- Optical spectrum analysers (AQ6315A, 350-1750 nm, 50 pm; AQ6370C, 600-1700 nm, 20 pm; AQ6375, 1200-2400 nm, 50 pm; AQ6373B, 350-1700 nm, 20 pm).
- Wavelength meter (WA-1650-89, 700-1650 nm, 0.2 pm).
- Fusion splicers (FSM-20CS; FSM45PM-LDF).
- Tunable lasers (Tunics-BT, 1500-1570 nm, 1 pm; Agilent 81940A, 1520-1630 nm, 1 pm; New Focus TLB-6321-P and TLB-6326-P).
- Vector network analyser (Agilent E8364B, 50 GHz).
- Oscilloscopes (Agilent Tech. Infiniium 86100C, 50 GHz, sampling; Agilent Tech. Infiniium DSO90254A, 2.5 GHz, real time; Keysight UXR0134A, real time - 13 GHz).
- Electrical spectrum analysers (Anritsu, MS2665, 21 GHz; Agilent N9010A-532, 32 GHz).
- Autocorrelators (Femtochrome, FR-103XL/IR, 800 - 1800 nm, pulses up to 185 ps; APE, PC-USB-150, 1500 - 2200 nm, pulses 50 fs - 150 ps).
Five robotics systems are available to give courses on these topics.
Laboratory for R&D on particle detectors based on liquid noble gases (argon, xenon) at low temperature.
Storage service for biological material under controlled conditions.
Equipment that performs analysis of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen.
This equipment allows the electronic and chemical characterisation of material surfaces and nanostructures by photoemission spectroscopy: XPS and UPS. It is equipped with an argon gun cleaning system and an electron gun.
Recording of short-period and long-period diffraction gratings in photosensitive optical fibres by irradiation with UV light from a 100 mW, 244 nm continuous wave laser. A hydrogenation system is available to improve photosensitivity. Multi-wavelength recording of gratings in the visible and infrared spectrum. Recording of uniform, chirped and apodised gratings.
High-temperature furnace and stretching system for the manufacture of silica photonic crystal fibres with different microstructures from commercial silica tubes and cylinders. Conventional fibres can be manufactured from preforms prepared in other laboratories.
Equipment for the analysis of metals and inorganic elements.
Laboratory for R&D on particle detectors based on noble gases (argon, xenon) at high pressure.
This laboratory has all the necessary instrumentation for sample preparation and loading of different diamond cells, including membrane cell pressure control systems, the EDM system for joint preparation and cell loading systems with noble gases up to 1500 bar.
Equipment for the analysis of metals and inorganic elements at trace level.
This laboratory includes a diamond cell laser heating system (using 100 W IR lasers) combined with a temperature measurement system and Raman spectroscopy equipment, for the study of P-T phase diagrams up to 100 Gpa pressures and 4000 K temperatures.
Technique that allows the lyophilisation of biological material.
This laboratory includes all machines, systems and equipment related to nanomaterial synthesis (metal nanoparticles, colloidal quantum dots, magnetic and insulating nanoparticles, multifunctional polymers...) and device fabrication (UV photolithography, electron beam lithography, evaporation deposition, sputtering deposition, laser ablation deposition, PECVD, Spray-CVD and RTP deposition, profilometer, spin-coaters, plasma cleaning, ...). All the equipment included in this laboratory has an approximate value of around 1.25 M.
Microbial characterisation using several approaches.
Microbial identification by essential gene sequencing.
The MALDI-TOF MS technique allows obtaining the characteristic protein profile of a microbial strain from the analysis of its ribosomal proteins, mainly.
- Deposit of strains of archaea, bacteria, filamentous fungi and yeasts up to risk group 3* according to the definition of Royal Decree 664/1997 of 12 May 1997.
- Deposit of phages of microbial strains up to risk group 2 according to the definition of Royal Decree 664/1997 of 12 May 1997.
The CECT has a public catalogue that includes more than 8000 strains of bacteria, archaea, filamentous fungi and yeasts. It also has the Mengovirus vMCO and will soon incorporate some phage strains.
High frequency circuit and system design package.
Equipment that performs analysis of metals and inorganic elements.
The laboratory has several diamond cell microspectroscopy systems, including UV-NIR sources, microscope benches, spectrometers and detectors for absorption and photomuminescence at high pressures and low temperatures. It also has two FTIR spectroscopy systems covering the near-mid and far IR range. Both systems are adapted for diamond cell spectroscopy at low temperatures. One of them is housed in a vacuum enclosure and includes a silicon bolometer, which allows reaching up to about 20 cm-1 in the far IR).
This laboratory has different laser sources (pulsed and continuous wave), light scattering systems (spectrometers), single and multichannel detectors of very low signal (single photon), ultra-fast detection system and a confocal microscope for the study of optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures and other nanomaterials between 4 and 300 K. All the equipment included in this laboratory has an approximate value of around 1M.
Equipment for the post-processing of optical fibre by melting and stretching short sections of optical fibre. Preparation of centimetre sections with micrometric precision. preparation of silica nanofibres and microcavities.
Laboratory for spectroscopic analysis of photon detector systems.
General electronic laboratory equipment. Specific equipment for the design of signal conditioning circuits in nuclear instrumentation for application in the field of gamma spectroscopy and experimental nuclear physics.
This laboratory includes several simple techniques for the optical characterisation of photonic/plasmonic structures and optoelectronic devices at room temperature: reflectivity/transmission, photocurrent, conductivity, electrical parameters with frequency, coupling and analysis of guided light in visible and NIR, optical birefringence, including for this purpose a spectrometer, several mini-spectrographs, diode lasers in visible and NIR, a tunable laser around 1550 nm, an elasto-optical modulator, a mini Raman equipment, head and electronics for near-field microscopy, several tunable amplifiers, electrical measurement equipment,. .. All the equipment included in this laboratory has an approximate value of around 200k.
Physical space with teaching infrastructures for experimentation on learning processes.
DNA extraction, whole genome sequencing (WGS), assembling, determination of quality parameters, genomic analysis...
Equipment that performs determinations of materials by Raman Spectrophotometry coupled to a confocal microscope.
Server Calculator MacOS 4 Core Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 16GB RAM SSD 128GB, 1TB HDD.
System for collaborative music creation and sound production, automated or not.
The UV Statistics Unit works with experts in the use of computer equipment and specific software. The main software used for data analysis is the free R Software.
This laboratory has several large volume presses and cells for the synthesis of materials under high pressure and high temperature conditions, as well as the necessary instrumentation for their control.
Laboratory for the deposition of thin films of semiconductors, insulators or metals by means of pulsed laser, evaporative or sputter deposition equipment.
Equipment for programming semi-custom digital circuits (FPGAs)
