The COE. Adv. Mat. Eng. Is formed by material scientists, engineers, theoretical scientists, physicists and chemists. It provides professional service to the inertial fusion, magnetic confinement, and electromechanical divisions at General Atomics.

Capabilities

Coating Capabilities

• 4 Sputter coaters with DC, RF, HIPIMS, Pulsed DC capabilities
• Atomic Layer Deposition
• Electron Beam Deposition chamber
• Large sample ( 1foot x 1foot) sputter – ultra-smooth optical quality coatings
• Parylene coformal coater
• Hollow cathode coater for Diamond-like-carbon amorphous coatings

Cleanroom Facilities

• Photolitography mask aligner
• Photolitography writter (in service in June 2022)

Computing

• Onsite high-performance computing
• Scientific software access and development
• Quantum hardware access
• National computing facility access (ex. NERSC)

Metrology

• SEM-EDS
• Filmetrics – optical profiloeter
• Nexiv- Automated inspection - Confocal Microscope
• X-ray transmission and X-radia equipment

Nanofabrication Lab

• Electrochemical system for the synthesis of nanoporous templates
• Electrochemical deposition of metals
• Supercritical point drier
• Thermal treatment oven
• Heated press

Modeling and Simulation

• Ab-initio methods (ex. post-Hartree Fock)
• Density functional theory, Tight-binding
• Molecular Dynamics
• Kinetic Monte-Carlo and mesoscale dynamics
• CALPHAD and phase-field methods
• Macroscopic materials modeling (ex. FEM)