Waterloo Advanced Technology Laboratory

WIN & WAT Lab

One of Canada’s premier materials research laboratories, the Waterloo Advanced Technology Laboratory (WATLab) is equipped with a full range of state-of-the-art instrument-clusters. WATLab offers a unique interactive environment for multidisciplinary advanced research and training to university researchers that is second to none in Canada, but also provides important research and development services to local industries in Canada’s Technology Triangle (Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, and Guelph).

Equipment

Microscopy

  • Ultrahigh-vacuum-based scanning probe microscope (Omicron VT-SPM)
  • Atomic force microscope (DI Nanoscope IV)
  • Scanning electron microscope (Zeiss FESEM 1530)
  • 4-circle high-resolution X-ray diffractometer (PANalytical Xpert Pro MRD)

Spectromicroscopy

  • Imaging ESCA microprobe (Thermo VG ESCALab 250)
  • Scanning auger microscope (Thermo VG MicroLab 350)
  • Raman confocal microscope (Bruker Senterra)
  • Ultraviolet visible, photoluminescence and FTIR spectrometers

Nanofabrication

  • Electrochemical workstations and microbalance
  • Pulsed laser deposition (PVD NanoPLD and MAPLE)
  • Molecular beam epitaxy (Omicron)

Lithography and patterning

  • Electron-beam lithography (Raith-Navidy)
  • Nanolithography (DI Nanoman)