- School of Engineering and Computer Science experimental facilities
The School of Engineering and Computer Science maintains a 7,000 square
foot class 1000 microelectronics clean room facility, including facilities
for optical lithography, sputter deposition and evaporation, and electron-beam
lithography (capable of sub-micron resolution).
- Physics Department experimental facilities
The Physics Department has facilities for optical studies of materials.
These include
- Jobin-Yvon U-1000 micro-Raman spectrometer
- Spex micro-photoluminescence spectrometer
- Modulation spectrometers whose spectral range extends from the mid
infrared to the vacuum ultraviolet (0.1 to 10 eV)
A cryopumped e-beam evaporator is available for producing metal or
dielectric coatings.
Low temperature measurements can be made with Janis liquid helium optical
cryostats, a closed-cycle refrigerator with a low temperature limit of 10 K
or Joule-Thompson expansion refrigerators with a low temprature limit of 77
K.
Laser facilities include argon ion lasers, HeNe red lasers, a neodymium-YAG
CW laser, a neodymium-YAG pulsed laser with doubling, tripling and
quadrupling optics.
- Nonlinear Optics Laboratory computational facilities
The computational research carried out in PhoTEC’s Nonlinear Optics Laboratory is
supported by five Sun SPARCstations, four of which are SPARC-10/MP multiprocessor machines
with two to four CPUs each. The fifth workstation is an UltraSPARCstation 10.
PhoTEC’s SPARCstations are ideal platforms for software development and small-scale
computation. Large-scale computation is supported by the facilities of the School of
Engineering and Computer Science and UT-Dallas.
- School of Engineering and Computer Science network and computational facilities
The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science maintains a laboratory
(known as the "Solarium") with 20 UltraSPARC 2 workstations with large monitors
for VLSI and network design, and a Sun Enterprise 3000 computational server with 4
UltraSPARC 2 processors, 1 GB of random-access memory (RAM), and 20 GB of attached
hard-disk mass storage.
- Campus network and computational facilities
The UT-Dallas campus network centers around two Cisco Catalyst 5000 switches, linked by
an 800 Mb/s Fast Etherchannel backbone. The building of the School of Engineering and
Computer Science is completely wired with optical fiber links between wiring closets and
Category 5 unshielded twisted pair links to the desktops. Fast Ethernet (100 Mb/s) links
are used to link selected laboratories and servers to one of the Catalyst switches.
The campus computational server at the University of Texas at Dallas is a Sun
Enterprise 6000 with 18 UltraSPARC 2 processors operating at a clock frequency of 167 MHz.
Software available to qualified University faculty and students includes Sun’s suite
of parallelizing compilers, which generate code that takes the greatest possible advantage
of the Enterprise 6000 parallel computing environment. UTD’s Enterprise 6000 is more
powerful than a CRAY Y-MP/864, and has a more user-friendly operating system and debugging
environment. The Enterprise 6000 can be accessed from any location on campus through the
UTD Ethernet. Software development for the Enterprise 3000 and 6000 is supported by
PhoTEC’s dedicated network of Sun workstations, some of which have significant
parallel computational capabilities.
