Excellent Scientific Instrumentation

The modern equipment in the Chemistry department's teaching and research laboratories includes a number of instruments available to undergraduates for both study and research. The departments instrumentation includes electrochemical equipment, spectrophotometers of several types, a vacuum dry box, GC's, LC's, high intensity mercury lamp, Langmuir-Blodgett trough, vacuum ovens and furnaces. The chemistry department also maintains collaborations with Linfield's Physics, LRI and Biology departments.  In addition, the department maintains its own LAN, and several clusters of PCs for student use.

Spectroscopic Instrumentation:

Home-built Raman microscope (532 and 632 nm lasers, CVI Digikrom 0.25 m monochromator, Apogee thermoelectrically cooled CCD, pictured)

DeltaNu Solution 532 Raman spectrometer (with NuScope and macro Raman capabilities)

Perkin Elmer 1600 Series FT-IR

Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2000 FT-IR

Hitachi F-4500 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer

Hitachi U-3000 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Shimadzu AA-6300 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Cu, Pb, Na/K, Mg/Ca/Al/Fe lamps)

Anasazi FT-NMR (Varian with 1H and 13C probes)

Ocean Optics UV-Vis spectrometers 

Chromatographic Instrumentation:

Hewlett Packard model G1800B Gas Chromatograph plus Electron Ionization Detector (MS)

Hewlett Packard Series II 5890 Gas Chromatograph  (with FID and TCD detectors)

Shimadzu LC2010C HT Liquid Chromatograph (with autosampler and UV detector, pictured)

Electrochemical Instrumentation:

EG&G model 264A Polarographic Analyzer / Stripping Voltameter

EG&G model 303A SMDE

EGG model 6310 Electrochemical Impedance Analyzer 

Other:

Nima 611M Langmuir-Blodgett Trough

Vacuum Atmosphere Co. HE-63-P dry box