The Kavli Institute at Cornell is devoted to the development and utilization of next-generation tools for exploring the nanoscale world.  KIC Instrumentation Projects support the purchase, development, and use of novel scientific tools and approaches for probing the nanoscale. Past project awards include:

2018

• 35 Tesla Pulsed Magnet: Ramshaw, Mak
• Cell-Sized CMOS Wireless Integrated Circuit Sensors: Molnar, McEuen
• Microwave SQUID Readout: Nowack, Ramshaw, Mak, Shan
• Magnetic Recording & Manipulation Microscope: Cohen, McEuen

2017

• Pixel Array Detector: Muller, Kourkoutis
• AFM for characterizing exfoliated van der Walls materials: Jena, Xing, Nowack
• Confocal Microscope: Zipfel, De Vlaminck, Brito, Wiesner
• Diamond NV center microscope: Nowack, Fuchs
• Optical probe station: McEuen, Xu, Molnar, Cohen
• Pump-probe station: Moses, Benedek, Rana

2016

• Low Temp Near Field IR: McEuen, Nowack, Shen Schlom
• Pixel Array Detector: Muller, Gruner
• Development of Hyperspectral Multiphon Microscope: Schaffer, Wise
• Probe Station for Magnetic Manipulation and Optical Sensing of 2D materials: Cohen, Ralph, McEuen
• Probe Station for Characterization of Ionic Liquid Devices: Abruna, Nowack, Lee

2015

• Plasma Cleaner for Microscopy Facility: Lena Kourkoutis
• GMW C-Frame Electromagnet and Oxford Cryostat: Marcos Guimaraes
• Low Temp Optical/Optoelectric Studies of Nano Materials Using Infrared Lasers: Long Ju, Paul McEuen, Jiwoong Park
• Direct Electron Detector for High-Resolution Single Particle Structure Biology and Cryo-Electron Tomography

2014

• Combined Confocal Fluorescence Interfacial Imaging (CFII) and Brewster-Angle Microscopy (BAM) Apparatus for Interrogating Folding in Angstrom to Nanometer Thin Sheets: Paul McEuen, Itai Cohen
• A New Device for Super-Resolution Imaging for Nanoscale Biological Architecture and Dynamics in Response to Mechanical Force: Matthew Paszek, Gerald Feigenson, Don Koch, Warren Zipfel
• AirSEM X-Ray Detector (Supplemental Request): David Muller, Lara Estroff

2013

• Tunable Light Source: Jiwoong Park, Paul McEuen
• Graphene Kirigami: Itai Cohen, Paul McEuen
• Fluorescence Microscope for 3D Imaging: Matt Paszek, Warren Zipfel
• X-Ray Detector for AirSEM: David Muller, Lara Estroff
• Microscopy Technique: Cynthia Reinhart-King, Susan Pannullo, Paul McEuen, Abe Stroock, Joseph Miller

2012

• A Fluorescence Colocalization Microscope for Two-Color STORM and Photoactivated Single-Molecule FRET Imaging at the Nanoscale: Warren Zipfel, Jiwoong Park
• FIB/SEM Cryo-System for Nanocharacterization of Soft and Composite Materials: Lena Kourkoutis, Lynden Artcher, Lara Estroff, David Muller
• Stem Detector to Perform Complete-Information Diffraction Imaging: Sol Gruner, David Muller
• In Situ Oxidation & Reduction of Nanoscale Films: Phil King, David Muller, Darrell Schlom, Kyle Shen

2012 (off cycle awards)

• Picosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO): Alexander Gaeta
• Air-operational scanning electron microscope (SEM): David Muller, Jiwoong Park, Paul McEuen, Lara Estroff
• Optical Microscope for AFM (McEuen)

2011

• Low-T scanned optical/SQUID microscope: Paul McEuen, Jeevak Parpia
• Opto-electromechanical  probe station: Paul McEuen, Michal Lipson
• Low-T scanning microscope: Seamus Davis, Darrell Schlom, Kyle Shen

2010

• Low-T scanning confocal optical/NIR microscopy: Dan Ralph, Alex Gaeta, Frank Wise
• DUV microscope for π-π* plasmonic imaging and spectroscopy: Paul McEuen, Jiwoong Park
• Mid-IR pump source for ultrabroadband frequency comb: Alex Gaeta, Michal Lipson
• DUV/VUV “Synchrotron in a Box”: Paul McEuen, Darrell Schlom, Kyle Shen
  

  Matt Paszek

  

  Cynthia R. King

  

  Itai Cohen

  

  Phil King

  

  Lena Kourkoutis

  

  Warren Zipfel

  

  Sol Gruner

  

  Paul McEuen

  

  David Muller

  

  Dan Ralph

  

  Michal Lipson

  

  Jeevak Parpia

  

  Lara Estroff

  

  Kyle Shen

  

  Darrell Schlom

  

  J. C. Séamus Davis

  

  Alexander Gaeta