The Centre for Biochemical Sensors offers a wide range of laboratory equipment. If you would like to use these equipment, please get in touch with Dr. Yubing Hu.

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 General Laboratory Instruments    
 1. Ultraviolet Crosslinker (UVP CX-2000, Fisher Scientific) crosslinker
 2. Refrigerator/Freezer (ES Series Combination, 263C-AEV-TS, Thermo Scientific)  Fridge  
 3. Mini Microcentrifuge (Corning 6770)  Centrifuge  
 4. Balance (Pioneer PX 323/E Precision, Ohaus 30429812)  Balance  
 5. Vortex Mixer (Fisherbrand)  Vortex mixer

 

 6. Hot Plate Stirrer, Ambient to 540°C, Ceramic (Fisherbrand Isotemp)  Hot plate

 

7. Universal Oven UN30 with Natural Convection, +20 to +300°C (Memmert™)

8. Sorvall™ ST 8R Small Benchtop Centrifuge, -10°C to +40°C, max 17,850 rpm (ThermoFisher)
9.  CAMAG Linomat 5, Software-controlled spray application of bands onto any planar medium, sample volumes between 0.5 and > 50 μL (Omicron)  
 Lasers    
 1. Q-Smart 850 Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser (1064 nm (1st harmonic), 532 nm (2nd harmonic), 355 nm (3rd harmonic), 5 ns, 430 mJ) with Single Longitudinal Mode (SLM) (Quantel)  

Quantel

 

 
 2. Pulsed Nd:YVO4 laser marking laser (20 ns, 355 nm, V.0020-uv, FOBA)

FOBA

 

 
 

 3. Collimated laser diode modules (Thorlabs)

 405nm, 4.5mW (CPS405)

 450nm, 4.5 mW (CPS450)

 520nm, 4.5mW (CPS520, Elliptical Beam)

 532nm, 4.5mW (CPS532)

 635nm, 4.5mW (CPS635F, Focus adjustable)

 670nm, 4.5mW (CPS670F, Focus adjustable)

 Laser system  

 4. Laser Fume Extractor, 230v 50Hz (AD Access, BOFA)  Fume extractor  
 Halogen and LED Sources    
 1. Visible Near-Infrared Light Source, HL-2000-HP-FHSA (20W)  (Ocean Optics)  Light source 

 2. 6200 K, 21.5 mW (Min) Fiber-Coupled LED, 1000 mA, SMA (Thorlabs, MCWHF2)

 3. T-Cube LED Driver, 1200 mA Max Drive Current (Thorlabs, LEDD1B)

 LED system  

 4. MatchBox Laser Combiners, multiple lasers (405nm, 488nm and 520nm), (ProPhotonix)

 

 5. Pigtailed Laser Diode, FC/PC (658 nm, 20 mW, A Pin Code, SM Fiber)

 6. Compact Laser Diode/Temperature Controller with TO Can Mount for Pin Codes A, D, E, and G

 Spectroscopy    
 1. FLAME-S-VIS-NIR-ES Spectrometer Assembly (350-1000nm) (Ocean Insight)  Flame  
 2. STS-VIS-L-10-400-SMA microspectrometer (350-800 nm) (Ocean Insight)  Miniaturised spectrometer  
 3. Cuvette holder CUV-UV (Ocean Insight)  Cuvette Holder  
 4. Ø1" Motorized Precision Rotation Stage (Metric) Bundled with DC Servo Motor Driver and Power Supply (KPRM1E/M, Thorlabs)  Motorized stage  
 Fibre and Polarization Optics    
 1. Reflection Probe (R400-7-UV-VIS, Ocean Insight)  Reflection probe  
 2. 1x2 Multimode Fiber Optic Coupler, High OH, Ø50 µm Core, 0.22 NA, 50:50 Split, SMA905 (TM50R5S1A, Thorlabs)  
Optical fibre system
 
 3. 400 um Premium Bifurcated Fiber, VIS/NIR, 2 m (QBIF400-VIS-NIR, Ocean Insight)  Bifurcated fibre  
 4. 600 um Premium Fiber, VIS/NIR, 1 m (QP600-1-VIS-NIR, Ocean Insight)  
Optical fibre
 
 5. Square-Core Fiber Patch Cable, 150 µm x 150 µm Core, SMA905, 2 m

 

Product Datasheet for Square-Core Fiber Patch Cable 

 6. Spatial Light Modulator, 3840 x 2160 , 400 - 850 nm, 8-32 Taps
 7. Optical Fiber Coupler, Broadband, 1 x 4, 1310/1550 nm, ±40 nm
 8. Fiber Optic De-Speckler
 9. 1-to-4 Fan-Out Fiber Optic Bundles
 Sensors and Detection    
 1. pH meter (FiveEasy F20, Mettler Toledo)  pH meter  
 2. Dissolved Oxygen Meter (HI-2004 Edge®, Hanna Instruments)  HI  
 3. Dissolved Oxygen Meter (Eutech™ DO 700, Thermo Scientific)  Oxygen meter  
 4. Orion Star A212 conductivity benchtop meter (Orion Star™, Thermo Scientific)  
 5. Microplate Reader (Varioskan LUX Multimode, ThermoFisher)  Microplate reader  
 6. Clinical Chemistry Analyzer (Indiko™ Plus, ThermoFisher)  Indiko  

 7. Power and Energy Meter Interface with USB Operation (Thorlabs, PM100USB)

 8. Silicon Power Head, 200-1100nm, 50mW (Thorlabs, S120VC)

 Optical powermeter

 

 

 9. Pyroelectric detector (up to 23 J, QE25LP-S-MB-QED-INT-D0, Gentec)  Energy meter  
 10. Abbe 5 Refractometer (Bellingham + Stanley)  Refractometer  
 Microfabrication    
 1. Spincoater (WS-650Mz-23NPPB, Laurell)  Spincoater  
 2. Plasma Etcher (Zepto, Deiner)  Plasma  
 Imaging    

 1. Digital camera with Full Frame Sensor (35 mm 35.8 x 23.9mm) 24.3MP (α7 II E-mount, Sony)

 Lens FE 28-70 mm F3.5-5.6 OSS (Sony)

Digital camera

 

 

 2. Upright Microscope for Polarisation (DM2700 P, Leica)

Microscope

 3. IR Camera (FLIR ONE) Thermal Camera  
 4. RGB Combiner: 488, 532, and 640 nm, FC/PC Connectors
 Computing    
 1. Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit (NVidia) AI developer kit
 2. SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I Card - 1TB (Sandisk) Flash disc
 3. 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 SSD (Samsung) Flash disc
 4. USB oscilloscopes & mixed signal oscilloscopes (PicoScope® 2000 Series)
 
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