Infrastructures at ISIS

ISIS possesses state-of-the-art facilities for nanofabrication and characterization of molecular, macromolecular and supramolecular structures. This includes:

• High resolution NMR instruments (300, 400, 500 MHz instruments)
• Vapour phase osmometry
• Molecular graphics and modelling facilities
• Cary UV Spectrophotometer
• UV-Visible Spectrometer VARIAN CARY3, working also in variable temperature (-10°C à +100°C)
• Luminescence Spectrometer SLM AMICO BOWMAN series 2, working also in variable temperature
• Shimadzu fluorescence spectrophotometer
• FT-IR spectrometer
• X-ray diffraction facility
• Fully equipped Digital Instruments – Dimension 3100 Scanning Force Microscopy and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy, running on a Nanoscope IV control unit. This instrument is equipped with the latest optional (“Nanoman”), combined with Dimensional Closed Loop SPM Microscope Head, which allows to manipulate objects in the nanoscale using the SPM tip.
• A FEI Dual Beam 235: FIB-SEM-STEM with an ion beam (FIB,  5 nm) and electron beam (SEM, 1 nm) which allows state-of-the-art nanofabrication of samples (characterisation, deposition, milling, etc.).
• Keithley 6517 A Electrometer / High Res. Meter: (resolution 0.1 femtoAmp) interfaced with a PC
• Spin coater with temperature controlled heating stage
• Oven for performing thermal annealing in controlled atmospheres
• Inverted Nikon and Mitutoyo optical microscope, with liquid nitrogen cooled CCD 2D detector and spectrograph for optical measurements of nanoscopic objects.
• Autolab Galvanostat/Potentiostat for electrochemistry work
• Spex Fluorolog spectrofluorimeter and Shimadzu UV-VIS spectrophotometer
• A class 1000 clean room is available for the sample preparation.
• Emitech sputterer, etc.