Facilities

Fraunhofer USA CMI has an extensive array of specialized high precision machining equipment, including:

Our engineering staff have high powered CAD workstations to conduct their computer aided design. They primarily design and fabricate work with:

• PTC Creo (including Creo 3, Creo 2, Wildfire 3),
• AutoCAD / AutoCAD Electrical 2009, and MasterCAM x6,
• Additionally, we have access to various modeling software as needed (e.g. Comsol, MatLab, and Mechanica).

• Class 2a biosafety cabinets 
• Laminar flow hood
• Chemical fume hood
• UV-vis spectrophotometers 
• Eppendorf gradient mastercycler thermal cycler
• Phase-contrast and fluorescence microscope with automated x-y-z stage and digital camera
• Plasma Technologies PS-0500, low pressure plasma chemical vapor deposition system
• Refrigerator/Freezers 
• Bright field microscopes 
• Refrigerated centrifuges (250mL volumes) 
• Labconco laboratory glassware washer
• Barnstead NANOpure Diamond DI system
• Ultrasonicators
• CO2 water jacketed and standard incubators
• Microfuges 
• Orbital shakers
• Heatblocks, Vortexers, pH meters
• Gel electrophoresis apparati 
• Zeiss field emission scanning electron microscope*
• Digital Instruments scanning probe atomic force microscope*
• PicoForce Scanning Probe microscope*
• Applied BioSystems 7500 Thermal Cycler*
• Molecular Devices Spectromax M5 Fluorometer*
• FTIR spectrometer*
• Standard pipettors, glassware, etc.
• *Fraunhofer USA CMI has access to Boston University’s core facilities including those located at the Photonics Center and Biomedical Engineering across the street.

• Class 1000 and Class 100* clean rooms
• Surface profilers
• Wyko interferometric microscope*
• Rudolph Ellipsometer*
• PVA TePla America Plasma asher*
• BOC Edwards thermal evaporator*
• Sharon Vacuum electron beam evaporator*
• Ion beam assisted deposition*
• Surface Technology Systems deep reactive ion etcher*
• Atomic force microscopy*
• *Fraunhofer USA CMI has access to Boston University’s core facilities including those located at the Photonics Center and Biomedical Engineering across the street.

Custom instruments made by Fraunhofer USA CMI

• 2 Fluorescence/phase contrast microscopic workstations with automated stages outfitted with temperature and fluidic control
• First generation fully automated lab-on-a-chip instrument (sample to answer functionality)
• Multi-functional instrument for high throughput micro-column liquid handling
• Multiplexed tissue homogenizer

Sensor characterization and operation system

• TMC Optical Table Top with Faraday cage
• Micromanipulator custom probe station and micromanipulators
• Meiji stereozoom microscope
• Molecular Devices Axopatch 200
• Molecular Devices Multiclamp 700B
• Molecular Devices Digidata 1322A