AMLCI Research Facilities
The state-of-the-art $14-million, 60,000 square-foot Liquid Crystal and Materials Sciences building houses the program's research and instructional facilities. Research facilities are available for use by students and researchers, including academic and industrial partners. Information on procedures and fees associated with using facilities can be obtained from each facility’s website and/or contact person. For more information on our facilities please visit the AMLCI Research Facilities website.
Supervisor/Contact: Bjorn Lussem
Phone: (330) 672-2410
Email: blussem@kent.edu
Supervisor/Contact: Bentley Wall
Phone: (330) 672-1555
Email: bwall@kent.edu
Contact: Trevor Skinner
Phone: (330) 672-1565
Email: tskinne2@kent.edu
The Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Device Prototype Facility offers a wide range of services & capabilities related to liquid crystals and displays in particular. The facility is centered in a 3,500 square foot Class 100-1,000-10,000 clean room facility for manufacturing or prototyping of liquid crystal devices & related research. The facility provides custom LCD devices which are not available elsewhere.
Organic Synthesis Facility
Supervisor/Contact: Bjorn Lussem
Phone: (330) 672-2410
Email: blussem@kent.edu
Supervisor/Contact: Quan Li
Phone: (330) 672-1537
Email: qli1@kent.edu
Contact: Hari Bisoyi
Phone: (330) 672-1547
Email: hbisoyi@kent.edu
The Organic Synthesis Facility is equipped to synthesize liquid crystalline materials that are not commercially available. The facility synthesizes materials that have been previously reported in the literature, purifies impure single liquid crystals, and formulates mixtures when an exact composition is provided. The facility has the capabilities to perform multi-step organic synthesis, chromatographic separations and chemical purification.
Characterization Facility
Supervisor/Contact: Bjorn Lussem
Phone: (330) 672-2410
Email: blussem@kent.edu
Contact: Min Gao
Phone: (330) 672-7999
Email: mgao@kent.edu
Contact: Lu Zou
Phone: (330) 672-9177
Email: lzou@kent.edu
The Materials and Surface Characterization Facility is equipped to determine material properties of bulk liquid crystals, properties of the liquid crystal/substrate interface, and properties of the substrate.
Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility
Supervisor/Contact: Bjorn Lussem
Phone: (330) 672-2410
Email: blussem@kent.edu
Contact: Min Gao
Phone: (330) 672-7999
Email: mgao@kent.edu
The Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Facility offers atomic/nanoscale material characterization for cross-disciplinary (materials science/biology/nanotechnology) research. Available techniques include: traditional TEM, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), scanning TEM (STEM), cryo-TEM, electron diffraction techniques, energy-filtered TEM, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS).