Raman spectrometer at Oakland University

Horiba Labram Raman spectrometer

Address

Room 361, Engineering Center

115 Library Dr, Rochester, MI 48309

Contact: Dr. Ankun Yang, ankunyang@oakland.edu

Co-PIs: Dr. Xiangqun Zeng, Dr. Wei Zhang, Dr. Luis Villa Diaz, Dr. Ziming Yang

Capabilities

Confocal Raman microscopy (with scanning capability) and spectroscopy
Laser sources: 532 nm, 633 nm and 785 nm
Objectives: 5x, 10x, 50x, 100x VIS, 50x LWD, 50x NIR
Gratings: 300, 600, 1800 gr/mm
Deep cooled EMCCD, front illuminated UV CCD
Photoluminescence (PL) measurement in the visible to NIR (up to 2000 nm, 50x NIR objective included)
Heating and freezing stages (micro thermometric cell working from -196 to 600 deg C)
Electrochemical cell with 2 and 3 electrodes and optical window (50x long WD objectives included)
Ultra-Low Frequency Raman Filter (down to ~5-10 cm-1)
Polarized Raman kits in the visible
More information here

Manuals for Users (Also on the Raman computer desktop )

Quick Start

Reference Manual

Acknowledgement

National Science Foundation: Division of Materials Research (DMR)

Oakland University: School of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Department of Biological Science

Please acknowledge NSF DMR-2216076 in your publications.

Publications

Pragadeesh Venkatesh, et al. In Submission.

Observation of exceptional stability in a nonlinear optical crystal under extreme conditions

Y. Wang, V.T. Barone, S. Khare, A. Yang, D. Zhang, Y.J. Ryu, S. Menon, W.L. Zhou, P.S. Kanthan, M. Kozel

Advanced Optical Materials Accepted (2024)

News

Oct 25, 2024 Raman is going into class ME 4545-5545!

Nov 27-28, 2023 Raman is going into class ME 3700!

Apr 21, 2023 Raman is up running!

Apr 18-21, 2023 The Raman instrument is being set up!

August 9, 2022 Our MRI proposal for acquiring a confocal Raman microscope/spectrometer to support multidisciplinary research at OU is awarded by NSF. Thanks to NSF and the univeristy for the generous support! Thank all co-PIs and participants in this proposal!