Energy Materials and Devices Core Facility

Overview of Services

The CFES Energy Materials and Devices Lab (CFES-EMDL) consists of a suite of tools for fabricating, processing, characterizing and testing a variety of materials and device structures for new energy applications. Broadly, the facilities can be divided into five test stations: 

• Photovoltaic test bench

• Efficiency, power factor, current-voltage and spectral response/quantum efficiency from 350 nm to 1800 nm.

• Battery and Supercapacitor fabrication and testing station

• Coin cell fabrication in programmable glow box, Charge/discharge cycle testing, cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectrometry.

• Spectrophotometric equipment

• Absorption, transmittance and reflectance of light from 200 to 1800 nm.

• Physisorption & Chemisorption analysis

• physisorption, chemisorption, vaporsorption, BET surface analysis, mass spectrometer, and hydrogen storage characteristics of nanoporous materials.

• Thin film deposition

• Environmental controlled spin coater, dip coater for low cost energy device fabrication.

• Colloid & nanoparticle characterization
• Glove Boxes (2)

EMDL will provide many new directions in several research projects in the area of energy/nano materials synthesis, energy/nano materials characterization, energy and electronic device fabrication and testing.  This central facility, it is geared to attract industrial partners for developing collaborations and sponsored research projects to the center.  

Leadership 

Dr. Ding Tian, Laboratory Manager
Email: tiand3@rpi.edu
(518)276-3784

 Brian Apkarian, Director of Business Development
Email: apkarb@rpi.edu
(518)276-6953

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

1. Energy Materials and Devices Lab Website

Contacts