The Liquid Crystal Device Prototype Facility offers a wide range of services & capabilities related to liquid crystals and displays in particular. The facility is centered in a 3,500 square foot Class 100-1,000-10,000 clean room facility for manufacturing or prototyping of liquid crystal devices & related research. The facility provides custom LCD devices which are not available elsewhere.

The Characterization Facility is equipped with a series of instruments to determine the microscopic structures and properties of bulk and surfaces of liquid crystals, soft and biological materials. The newly added Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) offers atomic/nanoscale material characterization for cross-disciplinary (materials science/biology/nanotechnology) research. Available techniques include: traditional TEM, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), scanning TEM (STEM), cryo-TEM, electron diffraction techniques, energy-filtered TEM, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS).

The Organic Synthesis Facility is equipped to synthesize liquid crystalline materials that are not commercially available. The facility synthesizes materials that have been previously reported in the literature, purifies impure single liquid crystals, and formulates mixtures when an exact composition is provided. The facility has the capabilities to perform multi-step organic synthesis, chromatographic separations and chemical purification.