Research Facilities
The Bourns College of Engineering boasts nearly 200,000 square feet of laboratories and classrooms, and a $10 million nanofabrication clean room (with clean areas of Class 1,000 and Class 100 specifications) using Electron Beam lithography and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) instruments. This facility has a full suite of capabilities available in industrial semiconductor clean room operations as well as a suite of metrology tools with material and surface analysis capability.
Other key facilities and resources include:
* Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
* Distributed Robotics and Multimedia Laboratory
* Identification and Control Laboratory
* Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition Laboratory
* High-Performance Computing Laboratory
* Algorithms and Computational Biology Laboratory
* Database Laboratory
* Distributed Systems Laboratory
* Networks and Communications Laboratory
* Riverside Graphics Laboratory (RGL)
* Systems and Security Research Laboratory (SSRL)
* Vehicle Emissions Research Laboratory: certification-grade chassis dynamometer laboratory and heavy-duty engine dynamometer laboratory
* Heavy-duty mobile emissions laboratory, for measurement of emissions from heavy-duty trucks and other heavy-duty engines
* Atmospheric processes chamber, the world’s largest indoor laboratory for studies of atmospheric processes that produce and terminate air pollutants under tightly controlled conditions
* Transportation Systems Research Laboratory
* Micro Fabrication Facility: Four major pieces of equipment have already been installed, including high precision CNC lathe, mill and Sinker- and Wire-EDM
* Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis (CFAMM) is capable of nanoscale characterization of organic and inorganic materials, biological tissue and minerals applying electron beam techniques and laser confocal microscopy
* Silicon Graphics Altix 4700 supercomputer powered by 64 Intel Itanium 2 processor cores and featuring 128 GB of system memory
Bourns also benefits from other important shared research facilities on the UCR campus, such as:
* UCR Core Instrumentation Facility
* CEPCEB Microscopy and Imaging Facility
* CEPCEB Bioinformatics Core Facility
* CEPCEB W.M. Keck Proteomics Core Facility
* UCR Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
* Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Facility (ACIF), housed in the Chemistry Department, consists of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility, the Southern California Mass Spectrometry (SCMS) Facility, the Small Molecule X-ray Crystallography (SMXC) Facility, and the Optical Spectroscopy (OS) Facility.
* The UCR Division of Biomedical Sciences Becton Dickinson Fluorescence Activated Cell Scanner (FACScan). Utilizing technology that precisely monitors light scattering and fluorescence, the FACScan enables researchers to analyze cell morphology, cell surface proteins and cell cycle-related processes.
* Micro Fabrication Facility: Four major pieces of equipment have already been installed, including high precision CNC lathe, mill and Sinker- and Wire-EDM.
* Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis (CFAMM) is capable of nanoscale characterization of organic and inorganic materials, biological tissue and minerals applying electron beam techniques and laser confocal microscopy.
* Center for Plant Cell Biology
Selected Equipment includes:
Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) System.
Hot Isostatic Press (HIP)
Ultra high vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) system
High temperature vacuum furnaces
General ultra high vacuum chambers and pumps
Instron Universal tester
Instron microhardness tester
Vacuum and inert gas glove box
Laboratory Bio Hood
Buehler polishing and sample mounting equipment
Cryogenic Orbital Lapping Device
Vacuum Deposition
X-Ray Diffraction
TEM
SEM
Mass Spectrometry
Electron Microscope
Zeiss Surface Analyzer
Cryogenic Treater
Controlled Furnace
Suss 6" Wafer RF Probe Station with Laser Cutter
Photo lithographer
Binding Stations
Precision Thermal Control Ovens
Tektronix Curve Tracers
Agilent electrical characterization equipment
Agilent 4156C Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer system
Cascade RF-1 Co-planar RF probing system
Suss 8” RF Probing Station
Barth 4012 TLP/CDM Testing System
Agilent Digital Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes
Agilent Spectrum Analyzers
Network Analyzers
Noise Figure Analyzers
Tek Arbitrary Waveform Generator