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A public catalog for aerospace companies and small businesses. Search facilities, instruments, equipment, data, software, expertise, partnerships, and intellectual property held by Colorado organizations. Names and descriptions are copied from official pages.

541 assets from 19 organizations

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  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisegroup / lab

    Begelman group led by Mitch Begelman, Professor in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder and JILA Fellow, researching theoretical and high energy astrophysics.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisegroup / lab

    Hamilton group theoretical research on black holes, cosmology and supernovae, including general relativistic visualization of black holes and methods for analyzing galaxy surveys to extract cosmological parameters.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisegroup / lab

    Toomre group: Toomre, professor of astrophysics in APS and JILA fellow since 1975 (degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge), working on compressible and…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisegroup / lab

    Ye group research on quantum science and precision metrology: ultracold strontium in optical lattices for atomic clocks, quantum-state-prepared molecules, and stable lasers and optical frequency combs for precision spectroscopy from mid…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentfabrication / machining

    Edwards 306 e-beam evaporator in the JILA Keck Lab for thin film coatings of gold, silver, platinum, titanium, chromium, copper, cobalt, nickel, aluminum and other metals, accepting up to 4 coating materials per run; training on request or…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilityfabrication / cleanroom / shop

    JILA Electronics Shop, whose electrical engineers design, build and troubleshoot custom analog and digital devices, specializing in FPGA and reprogrammable circuitry and low-noise circuits, with a component storeroom and a loan pool of…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property

    ipissued patent

    US patent 7,538,881 B2 for frequency comb cavity enhanced spectroscopy: a broadband optical frequency comb coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity holding a sample gas, with the output dispersed into many data channels; inventors Ye,…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilityfabrication / cleanroom / shop

    JILA Instrument Shop, whose instrument makers design and fabricate precise scientific instruments such as custom mounts, chambers and precision mechanical devices using CNC vertical machining centers and mills and tool-room lathes;…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilitycomputing, data & operations center

    JILA Computing Services, operating JILA servers and two small computational clusters for quantum chemistry and molecular modeling software, supporting use of the CU supercomputer with CU Research Computing, and running a computer lab with…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilityfabrication / cleanroom / shop

    JILA Keck Lab, made up of the W.M. Keck Optical Measurements Laboratory and the JILA Micro and Nanofabrication Facility, with a cleanroom, a metrology room and a fume hood/wafer dicing room; instruments are reserved online, and users can…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    partnershipuser / facility access

    Keck Lab usage rules for JILA, CU, NIST and outside users: online equipment reservation, tablet sign-in, trained users only, cleanroom gowning for the Class 1000 (ISO 6) and Class 100 (ISO 5) areas, required EH&S certification, and…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    test_servicefabrication / engineering

    JILA Keck Lab services: surface metrology (roughness, step heights, feature dimensions), optical properties characterization, metal and dielectric coatings, optical coating design (mirrors, DBRs, bandpass filters), microfabrication up to…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilityfabrication / cleanroom / shop

    JILA Micro and Nanofabrication Facility: a suite of Class 1000 (ISO 6) and Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanrooms for micro and nano fabrication, with optical microscopes, PVD, spin and sputter coating systems, scanning electron microscopes and a…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisecenter

    NSF-sponsored JILA Physics Frontier Center bringing together 20 investigators to harness light-matter interactions and control diverse quantum systems, spanning many-body quantum matter, novel light sources and molecules, with partnerships…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisetopic area

    JILA research across the physical sciences, including precision quantum measurement of time, length, electromagnetic fields and gravity and the control of complex quantum interactions.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentfabrication / machining

    Picomaster maskless laser writer in the JILA Keck Lab for direct-write photolithography, currently fitted with a 375 nm optical module and supporting backside alignment from GDS files; usage is charged on a tiered rate schedule.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentfabrication / machining

    RIE in the JILA Keck Lab, recommended with oxygen for removing organics from sample and wafer surfaces; the pump is started manually from the pump controller.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentanalytical / metrology

    SEM in the JILA Keck Lab, with a video training refresher for users; it is not currently supported by Thermofisher and has reached End-of-Life, and options for maintaining it are being evaluated.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentfabrication / machining

    Two sputter chambers in the JILA Keck Lab for coating metals and dielectrics, with a published sputtering target list; staff can help source targets or do e-beam or thermal evaporative coatings instead.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentanalytical / metrology

    Electronics Shop loan pool of high-quality test equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, function generators and other common electrical test and measurement equipment.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    expertisegroup / lab

    Anderson Optical Physics group researching ultracold atoms for atomtronics, atom interferometry and neutral atom quantum computing, using window atom chips that trap atoms close to a surface with high numerical aperture optical access.

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access

    partnershipvisitor / fellowship

    Competitively awarded JILA Visiting Fellows program giving internationally prominent scientists financial support for strongly collaborative visits of up to 6 months, with a stipend of up to $1,250 per week for local expenses; applications…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    facilitylab / research

    W. M. Keck Optical Measurement Laboratory (JILA Metrology lab) maintaining shared optical measurement and characterization instruments, including an atomic force microscope, beam profilers, optical microscopes, polarimeters, spectrum…

  • Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure

    equipmentfabrication / machining

    Wire bonders in the JILA Keck Lab cleanroom and metrology room, with a maximum wire size of 0.002" diameter.