Shared Facilities
With PREM support, UPRH has improved the infrastructure for Materials Research and Education
with the acquisition of new instrumentation. Facilities enhanced with PREM support include three laboratories for materials preparation
and characterization (two with 625 square feet each and one with 372 square feet), a computational mathematics research laboratory (450 square feet)
and a Videoconference Room (576 square feet). Facilities are shared with the rest of UPRH community, other universities and industry.
Research laboratories are also used for teaching and for outreach activities.
On September 12, 2013 UPRH's Administrative Board
approved Certification 2013-2014-10 (in Spanish) authorizing
PREM to charge fees for using the instruments and for technical support.
Contact: Potential users may contact the Facilities Coordinator, Anamaris Meléndez at
anamaris.melendez@upr.edu or the PREM Program at
prem.uprh@upr.edu.
Materials Processing
Faculty Coordinators: Nicholas Pinto and Idalia Ramos
- Analytical Scale
- Benchtop Thermal Evaporator
- RF Plasma Barrel Reactor
- Spin Casting Instrument
- Drying Furnace
- Air Furnace (Orton Sentry 2.0)
- Tube Furnaces
- Electrospinning Station with Syringe Pump and High Voltage Source
- Tip Sonicator
- Glove Box System
- 3D Printer
Materials Characterization
Faculty Coordinators: Idalia Ramos and Nicholas Pinto
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) JEOL JSM-IT- 100 with Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS)
- D2 PHASER Bruker X-ray Diffractometer
- Nikon Stereoscopic Microscopes
- KLA Tencor Profilometer
- Optical Microscope with Camera
- Agilent Impedance Materials Analyzer (40-110MHz)
- UV-vis Spectrophotometer
- Three Electrical Characterization Stations (Two with Low Temperature Cryostats)
- Semiconductor Analyzer; Gas Sensing Station
- Two Electrochemical Measurement Systems: Potentiostat/Galvanostat
- Lock-In Amplifier
- Critical Point Dryer
- High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge
- Ferroelectric Tester
Modeling Laboratory
Faculty Coordinator: José Sotero
Main simulation server with Dual Intel Xeon processors (24 cores) and four NVIDIA Fermi GPGPUs, File/web server with 7TB RAID storage system. Software includes compilers, molecular dynamics simulation software (namd, gromacs, LAMMPS, VMD, Wolffia (developed by PREM Computational Mathematics group), Matlab and Comsol.
Videconference Room
Faculty Coordinators: Kevin Alicea
Meeting room equipped with Logicom Videoconference System (includes HD video camera, speakerphones and microphones), one 65 in LG Smart TV and infocus projector and space for seminars (up to 30 people).
