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Lab List
Clean
Room (CeNSE)
- Responsible Person: Chuck May/Vijay Singh
- Location: A361
Advanced Science & Technology Commercialization Center (ASTeCC)
CLASS 100 CLEAN ROOM with tight temperature and Humidity Control
Contains: Mask Aligner, Solvent Hood, Photo resist Processing equipment, Microscope, and Film Thickness Measuring Tools
This lab
is part of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering(CeNSE). CeNSE is a shared user facility established to encourage the development of materials, devices, solar energy and sensors at the Nanoscale. More than $2 million has been invested in basic fabrication techniques of film deposition, lithographic pattern definition, and material etching that will enable leading edge research in a variety of fields. In addition to the more conventional Silicon based transistor devices, simple metal/insulator circuit patterns that incorporate self assembly chemistry of tailored receptors could be used to produce biological sensors. Highly multi-disciplinary research efforts are easily facilitated. CeNSE is a resource for Kentucky’s development of both innovative academic research and the realization of emerging commercial ideas.
Visit CeNSE website
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Materials Processing Room
- Responsible Person: Chuck May/Vijay Singh
- Location: A365
Advance Science & Technology Commercialization Center (ASTeCC)
Contains: Atomic Layer Deposition, Plasma Enhanced Chemical Deposition, Reactive Ion Etching, Rapid, Thermal Processing, Acid Fume Hood and Furnaces
This lab is also part of the CeNSe facilities. It is used to deposit and condition films that are used to provide a basis for the devices and sensors produced by Center Researchers. The State of the Art equipment is available for use in multi-disciplinary efforts and can be accessed through the CeNSE Web Site.
Visit CeNSE website
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Sputter Deposition
- Responsible Person: Brian Wajdyk/Vijay Singh
- Location: A02080B Advanced Science and Technology Commericialization Center (ASTeCC)
Contains: Sputter Deposition, Thermal Evaporators, E-Beam Evaporators, and Fume Hoods
This lab is also part of CeNSE facilities and contains the tools to deposit matallic materials and insulatos that can either be evaporated or sputter deposited. It is here that the devices and sensors are enabled by forming contacting metallurgy that will be electrically accessible.
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E-Beam and Metrology Room
- Responsible Person: Biran Wajdyk/Vijay Singhs
- Location: A045 Advanced Science and Technology Commercialization Center (ASTeCC)
Contains: Electron Beam Lithography, Atomic FDorce Microscopy, and Quartz Mico Balance
This Lab, a part of the CeNSE facility provides the ability to do advance nano scale lithogrpahy, and to resolve topography at the atomic scale as well as provide researchers with a methodology to determin the adsorption or de-adsorption of materials on a substrate at nanogram quantities.
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Power Electronics Research Lab
- Responsible Person: Art Radun
- Location: 681
F. Paul Anderson Tower
This is the power electronics laboratory. Research is under way in this laboratory to exploit a new semiconductor material, Silicon Carbide (SiC), that offers the opportunity to develop power semiconductors with much higher operating temperatures, higher thermal conductivity, and reduced semiconductor area compared to existing Si power semiconductors. One research program is exploiting SiC power semiconductors to replace the present hydraulic actuators used in aircraft and automotive applications with electric actuators. The opportunities for electric actuation will be greatly increased using SiC power semiconductors since their higher temperature operation will significantly reduce the cooling requirements for the power electronics compared to Si based power semiconductors. This research also includes the development of a high temperature switched reluctance motor (SRM) that posses the same thermal capability as the high temperature SiC power semiconductors. The research underway will quantify and demonstrate the benefits of SiC semiconductors in aircraft and automotive electric actuators. In aircraft applications, electric actuators will reduce weight, increase reliability, increase performance, and reduce maintenance costs. In automotive applications, electric actuators will increase performance and safety.
Another research project is exploiting the reduced area of SiC power semiconductors relative to similarly rated Si power semiconductors and their resulting reduced device capacitance to achieve higher frequency power circuit operation. One application where this increased operating frequency capability is an advantage is in DC/DC converters where higher frequency operation reduces the converter’s size and weight. These DC/DC converters are presently used in computer power supplies, advanced lighting systems, and aircraft power systems. DC/DC converters will also be needed on future cars with 42V power systems and future hybrid electric cars. This research is using a 500W 270V to 48V DC/DC converter requirement as the means to develop and demonstrate the benefits of SiC power semiconductors in the DC/DC converter application.
In addition to these two larger research projects there are a number of smaller projects that are addressing different power electronic circuit issues and addressing the application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to the control of switched reluctance motors and to power semiconductor device testing.
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Electronic Devices Research Lab
- Responsible Person: Vijay Singh
- Location: 651
F. Paul Anderson Tower
The laboratory is equipped to perform research in electroluminescent displays, solar cells, magnetic sensing, and novel approaches to nanocrystalline material fabrication and application to electronic and magnetic devices. The ability to measure current, voltage, luminance in electroluminescent displays is available on an air stabilized optical table. Also available is a solar simulator that mimics the intensity of the sun for solar cell testing. A fume hood is available in the laboratory for device fabrication and processing. An example of a type of processing of solar cells includes solution growth of cadmium sulfide for use as a semiconductor in cadmium sulfide/cadmium telluride devices. |
Laser Processing Lab
- Responsible Person: Janet Lumpp
- Location: 659
F. Paul Anderson Tower
This lab contains excimer laser micromachining system for processing all types of materials - glass, ceramic, metal. Measurement instruments in the lab include stylus profilometer, optical microscope, and electrical test bench. Helium cadmium laser system for direct write exposure of photoresist. There is a hood with thick film screen printer, and a flammables storage cabinet for ECE Department, graduate student desks, storage and organization of supplies for KEEP - Kentucky Electronics Education Project.
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Film Deposition Lab
- Responsible Person: Zhi Chen
- Location: 349
Advanced Science & Technology Commercialization Center (ASTC)
This lab focuses on research in nano- and micro-scale electronic
devices including MOS device reliability, carbon nanotube-based
devices, and micro/nano-scale sensors. It includes the following
characterization facility: HP4155B semiconductor parameter analyzer,
HP E5250A low leakage switch main frame, HP8160A programmable
pulse generator, Keithley 595 quasistatic CV meter, Keithley 590
CV analyzer, and Alessi REL-2000 probe station. The device fabrication
facility is located at Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
(CeNSE).
Visit CeNSE website
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KAOS Supercomputer Machine Room
- Responsible Person: Hank Dietz
- Location: 672
F. Paul Anderson Tower
A high-performance computing system is not created by accident, but by the careful design and implementation of interactions between Compilers, Hardware Architectures, and Operating Systems. The University of Kentucky's KAOS group works to create, demonstrate, and disseminate technologies that can improve performance or provide new capabilities by integrating different aspects of computer system design. This systems research is not limited to systems hardware and software, but also includes working with application developer collaborators to port, tune, and enhance their codes.
Engineering, prototyping, and evaluating new supercomputing technologies require that KAOS construct and operate a variety of supercomputers configured to facilitate our research. Thus, we need to have a laboratory that not only can house a variety of experimental supercomputers, but also can make it easy for us to access, measure, and modify the system hardware and software. The KAOS Supercomputer Machine Room, 672 Anderson Tower, is a laboratory designed to provide for precisely these needs. As of March 2003, the KAOS Supercomputer Machine Room houses the award-winning KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2) supercomputer and four smaller cluster supercomputers.
A 360-degree photo of 672 AH from last summer is here.
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KAOS Hardware Development & Maintenance Facility
- Responsible Person: Hank Dietz
- Location: 695
F. Paul Anderson Tower
A high-performance computing system is not created by accident, but by the careful design and implementation of interactions between Compilers, Hardware Architectures, and Operating Systems. The University of Kentucky's KAOS group works to create, demonstrate, and disseminate technologies that can improve performance or provide new capabilities by integrating different aspects of computer system design. This systems research is not limited to systems hardware and software, but also includes working with application developer collaborators to port, tune, and enhance their codes.
Our creation of new technologies to improve the performance of computers is primarily aimed at making theoretical advances. However, obscure interactions between the many complex component susbsytems within a computer system often have a very significant impact on performance, so we feel it is critical to confirm our theoretical advances using prototype implementations of complete systems. For this reason, and also to facilitate technology transfer, we build a lot of specialized and prototype hardware; for example, our group has produced 19 generations of Aggregate Function Network (AFN) hardware. We also need to be able to perform regular maintenance on the hardware of our supercomputer testbeds (which are primarily housed in the KAOS supercomputer Machine Room). These two vital functions are performed in the KAOS Hardware Development & Maintenance Facility.
KAOS Hardware Development & Maintenance Facility
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KAOS Software Development Laboratory
- Responsible Person: Bill Dieter
- Location: 577
F. Paul Anderson Tower
A high-performance computing system is not created by accident, but by the careful design and implementation of interactions between Compilers, Hardware Architectures, and Operating Systems. The University of Kentucky's KAOS group works to create, demonstrate, and disseminate technologies that can improve performance or provide new capabilities by integrating different aspects of computer system design. This systems research is not limited to systems hardware and software, but also includes working with application developer collaborators to port, tune, and enhance their codes.
Software is a key part of any computer system. The primary focus of the KAOS Software Development lab is to invent, create, and maintain the system software that will allow higher performance to be achieved. The goal is not just to build fragile prototypes, but also to devise robust mechanisms that can result in useful software distributions. This research work includes support for custom hardware (developed in the Hardware Development & Maintenance Facility), operating system extensions, compiler technology, middleware, and application libraries. Not only does this laboratory offer workstations with access to the supercomputers in the Supercomputer Machine Room, but is also provides access to the workstation hardware and one or more "safe playground” clusters constructed specially for software testing.
KAOS Software Development Lab
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Micro-processing Lab
- Responsible Person: Jim Lumpp
- Location: 551
F. Paul Anderson Tower
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Printed Circuit Lab
- Responsible Person: Jim Lumpp
- Location:
652 F. Paul Anderson Tower
In this lab, there is a printed circuit board exposure and etching equipment for single and double sided boards. The room includes yellow lighting, sink, Kepro etch tank system, light table, exposure box, laminator, drill, shear. |
Computer Architecture Laboratory
- Responsible Person: Bob Heath
- Location: 521 UKCM
The Computer Architecture Laboratory, located in 521 CRMS Building,
contains a diverse assortment of networked personal computers,
engineering workstations, and other supporting laboratory equipment
used by undergraduate and graduate students performing research
and development in the general areas of Computer Engineering,
Digital Signal Processing, Digital Control Systems, and Software
Engineering. The personal computers and engineering workstations
run or provide access, via the network, to a rich assortment of
software and other computer systems used to support research and
development in the areas of Computer Engineering (Research and
Development of General Purpose, Special Purpose, and Application
Specific Computer Architectures including Uniprocessor, Parallel,
Distributed, Data-Driven, Hybrid, Reconfigurable, and Dynamic
Computer Architectures); Computer Aided Design; Specification
and Verification of Digital System Models and Designs; Computer
Performance Modeling and Evaluation; Co-Hardware and Software
Development, Design, and Verification; Modeling, Design, Synthesis,
and Testing of Digital Signal Processing and Control Systems;
and Software Engineering. Laboratory equipment and Computer Aided
Design (CAD) software is available allowing simulation, synthesis,
and rapid systems prototyping, testing, and evaluation of experimental
digital systems prototyped to the latest Field Programmable Gate
Array (FPGA) and Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) technology.
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Computer Architect Laboratory
- Responsible Person: Bob Heath
- Location: 205 ML
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- Responsible Person: Hassebrook/Donohue
- Location: 552
F. Paul Anderson Tower
Lab used for image processing and requires the following:
- 11 x 20 feet.
- 8 ethernet outlets
- No windows for controled lighting
- Lots of outlets for computers.
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- Responsible Person: Hassebrook/Donohue/Lau
- Location: 455
F. Paul Anderson Tower
Lab used for image processing and requires the following:
- 30 x 40 foot floor space.
- 16 ethernet outlets
- Prefer no windows for controlled lighting.
- Storage cabinets.
- Lots of outlets for computers
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Signal and Image Processing Lab
- Responsible Person: Daniel Lau
- Location: 368
Advance Science & Technology Commercialization Center (ASTC)
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Electronic Assembly Lab
- Electronics manufacturing capability, including screen printing, automated pick-and-place, reflow oven, wave solder, BGA rework, X-ray inspection capabilities.
- Some design capabilities, including schematic drafting and board layout.
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High Frequency/ Computer Research Lab
- Responsible Person: Gedney/Adams
- Location: 669
F. Paul Anderson Tower
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Computational Electromagnetic Lab
- Responsible Person: Gedney/Adams
- Location: 682
F. Paul Anderson Tower
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Electromagnetic Simulation Laboratory
- Responsible Person: Cai-cheng Lu
- Location: 556
F. Paul Anderson Tower
With the development of sophisticated computational electromagnetic (CEM) software, many electromagnetic problems, can by studied via virtual simulation. In this lab, we develop several CEM programs by which students can conduct virtual experiments on electromagnetic wave scattering, antenna radiation, wave propagation in complex environment, and microwave interaction with materials. A web-based interface is also designed so that the simulation can be performed on a remote computer. |
Electromagnetic Shielding Lab
- Responsible Person: Stephen Gedney
- Location: 360
Advanced Science & Technology Commercialization Center (ASTC)
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- Responsible Person: Bruce Walcott
- Location: 559
F. Paul Anderson Tower
The Control Systems Laboratory is a part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky. This lab was Started in 1988 by Dr. Bruce L Walcott. Research topics conducted in the Lab include:
Nonlinear System Identification
Adaptive Control
Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Genetic Algorithms
Neural Network Controllers
Robust Control
Vibration Control
CSL has received funding from federal and industrial sources including NSF, DOD, IBM, AT&T, Lexmark, and Cypress Semiconductor.
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Applied Machine Vision Lab
- Responsible Person: Yu-Ming Zhang
- Location: 119 RMB
Working closely with the automotive and piping industries, the vision laboratory has focused on developing automated real-time systems that can inspect weld quality and control adaptive welding. These new inspection systems can spot defects like undercuts, porosity, craters, burning-through, and penetration insufficiency at a frame rate of up to 1000 images per second. The adaptive welding systems can adjust torch and welding parameters on-line, based on real-time measurement of the groove geometry (for the root pass) and weld profiles (for the succeeding pass). |
Manufacturing Control Lab
Automated Synthesis of Control
- High-level specification of control
- Details of control determined through model analysis
- Control software automatically synthesized
- Assured safety and correctness reduces development and debug time
- Automated fault detection/diagnosis
- Rapid detection/diagnosis minimizes expensive downtime
Past Partners: Rockwell, Eaton, NSF, DOD
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- Responsible Person: Jim Cathey
- Location: 109
Mining Minerals Research Bldg
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- Responsible Person: Jim Cathey
- Location: 108
Mining Lab
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Welding Research Lab
- Responsible Person: Yu-Ming Zhang
- Location: 119 RMB
The Welding Research Laboratory is a part of the University of Kentucky Manufacturing Center, a unit of the University of Kentucky's College of Engineering. The center has several laboratories that perform research focusing on the advancement of manufacturing processes. As one of these research laboratories, the Welding Research Laboratory has received extensive support from the National Science Foundation, the army, and the Navy to develop applicable new welding control technologies. Partners include NASA, Electric Boat Corporation, Allison Engine Company, Pratt & Whitney, Thermal Arc, Inc., The Lincoln Electric Company, Ford Motor Company, Motor Wheels Corporation, Central Manufacturing Company, Thompson Steel Pipe Company, and others. |
Visualization Center
- Responsible Person: Bruce
Walcott
- Location: Kentucky
Utilities Building, 1 Quality Street, Suite 857
With programs in research, education and industrial outreach,
the Center brings together researchers with expertise in computer
vision and image processing, data acquisition, graphics, human-computer
interaction, multimedia, and teleconferencing and is dedicated
to research and development of computer-generated immersive environments,
ambient environments, dynamic scene acquisition and preservation,
advanced telepresence and telecommunications, and visualization
applications in areas such as education and training, medicine,
manufacturing, security and daily life . Researchers are building
state-of-the-art visualization and display environments for different
applications. The research includes efficient 3D data acquisition
and analysis and computer vision and graphics problems related
to model acquisition and tracking of people and objects in order
to populate and preserve realistic three-dimensional scenes.
Visit Visualization Center website
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- Responsible Person: Sen-ching Samson Cheung
- Location: Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, 8th Floor, Kentucky Utility Building
This mission of the MIA Laboratory is to build efficient, robust and secure multimedia systems. In the past two decades, we have witnessed the most dramatic increase in computation power and communication bandwidth in human history. These advances have broken many barriers in creating, transmitting, and storing large volume of digital data -- the most significant are the multimedia data from entertainment, business and education, as well as the scientific data from scientific experiments and medicine. Much of these data are voluminous, high-dimensional and under stringent real-time constraint. To understand and extract features from these data that are most important to the human user, to deliver these information to the end user anywhere at any time, and to protect any sensitive information against malicious attacks without sacrificing their utitilities are the main goals of the research conducted at the MIA Laboratory. Our primarily research areas are multimedia processing, privacy-enhancing technologies, pattern recognition, and information retrieval. Please visit our laboratory website at http://www.vis.uky.edu/mialab for more information about our current and past projects. |
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