Below is just a snapshot of the facilities and equipment that we have within the department.
Mossbauer spectroscopy laboratory
This is the Ultra-High Vacuum Chamber at Villanova
University, which is capable of attaining a vacuum of
10E-11 Torr (atmospheric pressure is around 760 Torr).
This photo is of a thin film deposition experiment being
performed in a second high vacuum chamber.
This photo shows the 50 kilogauss programmable
magnet which can be used for
studies in magnetization, susceptibility, hall
effect, and magnetoresistance.
The undergraduate laboratory x-ray
spectrometer is a
smaller version of the full size x-ray spectrometer also at
Villanova.
The undergraduate electronics laboratory provides a facility for
physics students to conduct various experiments and build projects in both analog
and digital electronics.
The optics laboratory is a specially darkened
room with a
vibration-isolated optics table. This provides
an ideal environment for various
experiments such as the creation of holograms.
Low-temperature cryostat
equipped with superconducting magnets for magnetic studies.
Closed-cycle, low-temperature refrigerator for
low-temperature studies between room temperature
and -270 degrees.
Michelson interferometry
apparatus used in the modern physics laboratory.
