Facilities

Professor Wang's group has over 2,500 sq. ft. of space located within Building A of the Biodesign Institute at ASU. These laboratories are well equipped with modern instrumentation and microfabrication tools. These include:

  • ten modern electrochemical (voltammetric and impedance) analyzers
  • 4 lab-on-chip systems
  • a liquid chromatograph
  • quartz crystal microbalance
  • numerous rotating disk electrodes
  • AFM and SECM scanning-probe systems
  • a SPR unit
  • three flow injection systems
  • small equipment (pH meters, balances, refrigerators, ovens, etc.)
  • five full-sized hoods and normal glassware
  • high-precision screen printer (MPM)
  • spin coater, plasma cleaner
  • two Nikon optical microscopes (for microfabrication efforts)
  • a graphic station for advanced microfabrication

Cold room and various bioanalytical instruments are also available in the Institute. Other resources include a machine shop, glass blowing facility, high-resolution electron-microscopy and scanning probe laboratory, and an electronic shop (all maintained by the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).

The microfabrication and soft-litographic capabilities are aimed at thin and thick film biosensors, micro total analysis systems (µ-TAS), polymeric and glass microseparation devices and screen-printed electrodes using the following equipment:

  • Photoresist spin coater
  • Clean air workstation
  • UV Exposure System
  • High-precision semi-automatic screen printer
  • Nikon video microscopes
  • Plasma cleaner
  • Sputtering unit
  • Si wafer etching equipment
  • CAD graphic work stations