Facilities

The Bioelectronics and Microsystems Lab is specifically designed for the prototyping and development of microtransducers, microfluidics, biomedical microdevices, and bioelectronic interfaces using microelectromechanical systems technology. The lab is equipped for customized microelectronic, micromechanical, and microfluidic testing; reliability testing; and cell culture. Both wet and dry lab space is available.

Bioelectronics and Microsystems Laboratory workspace showing research equipment, workbenches, and testing areas

Shared Facilities

Nanofabrication Lab

The PI and students have access to the Nanofabrication Lab at SUNY Binghamton—a central fabrication, processing, and characterization center intended to be used by a diverse campus-wide research community. A full-time lab manager maintains and provides training on the instruments.

Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP)

The Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP) is a multidisciplinary research center that is meeting the scientific challenges to reduce the cost of solar power and enhance energy efficiency. The CASP has extensive facilities for thin film devices, including lithography, deposition, etching, oxidation, diffusion, and characterization tools.

Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL)

The Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL) is a centralized, interdisciplinary, fully staffed research facility at SUNY Binghamton that promotes high-tech commercialization of microelectronic technologies by providing instrument and technical support for materials diagnostics, analysis, and characterization in areas such as electronics systems integration and packaging, materials research, and flexible electronics. The lab also supports life sciences research applications in medical areas, security systems for detection of pathogens, and additional industrial and consumer applications.

Major Equipment

1. Choi's Lab (BML)

Major equipment and resources in the BML include: Universal Laser System (VLS 3.5), Class II biosafety cabinet, Ti-S 100 Nikon Microscope, Oxygen Plasma (Harrick Plasma), Autoclave, −81°C Freezer, freeze-dry system (FreeZone Plus 2.5 Liter Cascade Benchtop Freeze Dry System, Labconco), Temperature/Light-controlled Chamber, Power supply/Multimeter/USB Data Acquisition System, Potentiostat/Galvanostats, LabVIEW/MATLAB, Xerox Phaser printer, 3D printer (Formlabs), 3D Vitarix™ Bioprinter (Pensees Inc.), BotFactory Squink Desktop PCB printer, and High Voltage Power Supplies.

2. Nanofabrication Lab & CASP

MEMS fabrication equipment including Electron Beam Evaporation, Sputter Deposition, Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Reactive Ion Etch (RIE), Rapid Thermal Processing, and Contact Alignment systems.

3. Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL)

Major equipment and resources include: High resolution field emission SEM (Zeiss Supra 55), Environmental LaB6 SEM (Zeiss EVO50XVP), Atomic Force Microscope (Veeco Dimension 3100), X-ray imaging and analysis systems, JEOL 2100 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), and Dual-beam Focused-Ion-Beam (FEI Nova 600 Nanolab).