Glass vacuum line used for nanoparticle synthesis.

Fluorometer used for measuring nanotube and quantum dot fluorescence from an ensemble.

Glove box used to keep the chemical precursors for semiconductor nanocrystals under an inert atmosphere.

Bioscope AFM/inverted microscope apparatus used to acquire charge and fluorescence information on single nanocrystals simultaneously.

Argon ion, diode pumped Nd:YAG, Ti:sapphire and He lasers for optical excitation.

Another view of the inverted optical microscope with a spectrometer and both a CCD and an InGaAs array detector used for single nanocrystal/nanotube optical spectroscopy.

Ultrafast Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier system with an optical parametric amplifier. Used to determione the ultrafast electronic properties of carbon nanotubes.