
High Tech Equipment
Reverse Engineering Fabrication Inspection and Non-destructive Evaluation (REFINE)
REFINE is envisioned to be a world-class lab in areas of Reverse Engineering, Fabrication, Inspection and Non-destructive evaluation. REFINE houses state-of-the-art equipment such as X-ray Microscopes, Focus Ion Beams and Scanning Electron Microscopes, Optical and Digital Microscopes, Probe Station and Failure Analysis tools and Circuit Edit and Debugging tools.
REFINE is open to collaborate with academia and industry to solve problems in areas of failure analysis, forensic analysis, hardware security, hardware hacking and reverse engineering of electrical components.
For further information and other inquiries, please contact REFINE director, Assistant Professor Sina Shahbazmohamadi.
REFINE at the Innovation Partnership Building
REFINE will relocate from UConn’s main campus labs to the Innovation Partnership Building in March 2018.
The REFINE Lab in IPB features:
- Perfect Vibration isolation
- Perfect EMI isolation
- Acoustic noise mitigating wall panels
- Regular Exhaust and Corrosive Exhaust in Equipment chase
- Key card access doors
- 60-inch TV in every room
- World class lab environment
REFINE equipment moving to IPB March 2018







Optical and Digital Microscopy
Smart ZOOM 5
Optical and Digital Microscopy
Smart PROOF 5
3D X-ray Microscopy
VERSA 520 with Insitu Capabilities
Electron and Ion Microscopy
Crossbeam 340 with Laser ablation
High Resolution Fabrication and Ion Microscopy
Orion Nanofab
XRADIA MIcroCT 400
Bruker XRD ( Xray Diffraction)
The Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC) was established in April 2013 in partnership with Pratt & Whitney, to advance additive manufacturing research and development.
The Center uses advanced powder bed manufacturing technologies and high-powered electron beams and lasers to repeatedly melt fine layers of powdered metals like titanium into one solid integrated piece. This layer-by-layer “additive” process allows for the creation of extremely complex three-dimensional objects without the constraints of the traditional manufacturing process.
Additive manufacturing has nearly limitless potential applications and can be used for a wide range of products - from advanced turbine components for jet engines to personalized prosthetic implants for patients who need them.
For further information and other inquiries, please contact the PW AMC director, Professor Rainer Hebert.
PW AMC at The Innovation Partnership Building
The PW AMC is relocating to a custom-designed, dedicated space within the Innovation Partnership Building. At the IBP, the PW AMC center will draw upon Connecticut’s rich heritage as a wellspring of innovation and a cradle of precision manufacturing, and will serve as a hub for research, development and commercialization activities surrounding advanced and additive manufacturing, high performance computing and other aligned activities. Within this space, small, mid-sized and large companies – as well as entrepreneurs – will collaborate side-by-side with UConn researchers and students to advance new technologies.
PW AMC equipment







PW AMC arcam EBM A2x
EOS laser sintering system
3DSystems ProX-300
Camsizer XT
LECO AMIC ONH 836
LECO cs_744
Gleeble 3500


DLF 1600
ODP 868 Optical Dilatometry Platform
PW AMC equipment moving to IPB - not pictured
- One wire electrical discharge machining (EDM) machine (Agie Charmilles), which is CNC controlled and can remove parts from the build plate and perform finish machining
- Surface profiler
- High-temperature differential scanning calorimeter
- MRF arc-melter with single-crystal pulling option, gas purification, oxygen monitoring, vacuum casting
- Furnace rheometer for viscosity measurements of liquid metals and alloys
UCONN - Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Materials Analysis and Characterization (CMAC)
The UConn-Thermo Fisher Scientific Center of Excellence is one of the world’s foremost facilities for electron microscopy. Its microscopy instruments include the Themis Titan for sub-angstrom analysis of materials and the Talos TEM for simultaneous quantitative energy dispersive spectroscopy and analysis to uncover chemical composition of materials. This equipment is available for collaborative research with industry partners including applications for clean energy materials and the testing of additively manufactured components such as those found in medical devices and polymeric materials for biomedical applications.
For further information and other inquiries, please contact the UCONN - Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Materials Analysis and Characterization (CMAC) director, Professor Steve Suib.
UCONN - Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Materials Analysis and Characterization (CMAC) at the Innovation Partnership Building
The IPB will house a total of seven instruments from Thermo Fisher Scientific, including the flagship microscope, Titan Themis TEM, which is capable of more than one-hundred million times magnification, allowing scientists to see individual atoms, determine their arrangement and measure their electrical and magnetic forces. The microscopes will move to the IPB in 2018.
Thermo Fisher Scientific equipment moving to IPB in 2018







Talos F200X
Helios PFIB
TeneoLoVac
Aspex Explorer
Helios Nanolab 460F1
Verios 460L
Titan Themis





Tecnai T12 S.TEM
Strata 400S DUALBEAM FIB
Quanta FEG 250
Rigaku SmartLab X-ray Diffraction System
Rigaku ZSX Primus IV XRF Spectrometer