HIGH TECH EQUIPMENT

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.

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.

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.

Innovation Partnership Building at the UConn Tech Park

High Tech Equipment

Reverse Engineering Fabrication Inspection and Non-destructive Evaluation (REFINE)

REFINE equipment moving to IPB March 2018

The Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC)

PW AMC equipment

PW AMC equipment moving to IPB - not pictured

UCONN - Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Materials Analysis and Characterization (CMAC)

Thermo Fisher Scientific equipment moving to IPB in 2018