Infrastructure for cutting-edge research in the fields of nanotechnology for solar energy conversion and smart materials for the building envelope
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Lab for plasma-assisted vacuum deposition and photoelectron spectroscopy / Plasma during thin film deposition
Tools for computer simulations
- thin film interference in multilayers
- effective medium theories
- advanced ray-tracing for modeling of photoluminescent materials and optical microstructures
Equipment for thin film deposition
- magnetron sputtering & plasma-activated chemical vapour deposition (PVD/PECVD)
- reactive vacuum evaporation
- sol-gel coating processes
Equipment for thin film characterization
- in-line photoelectron spectroscopies XPS & UPS
- UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometry & ellipsometry
- FTIR ellipsometry
- IR emissiometry
- in-line Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
Equipment for optical and thermal characterization of architectural glazing
An independent database of building glass characteristics is available under www.glassdbase.ch.
- Window test bench, developed by the group of Prof. P. Oelhafen, University of Basel
- Angle-dependent UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometry
- Experiment-based determination of the g-value of multiple glazing
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Test bench for optical characterization of architectural glazing (R. Steiner et al., CISBAT 2005)
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Test bench for the determination of the g-value of architectural glazing (G. Reber et al., CISBAT 2005)