The CooperLab is situated in the Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence (The Berg), built in 2015 and pictured above. The Berg is home to the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Lassonde School of Engineering, and houses world class facilities including a fully equippmed machine shop and a microfabrication shop. CooperLab is uniquely situated on the 5th floor of the Berg, with access to indoor and outdoor rooftop space for conducting both controlled laboratory and outdoor "on-sun" experiments.
Experimental Facilities
The experimental facilities currently available in the CooperLab are listed below. Please inquire (tcooper@yorku.ca) if you have any questions about the facilities.
Solar Facilities
Large Area LED Solar Simulator (1 sun)
Collimated Beam Solar Simulator (1 sun)
1.6 kW High Intensity Xenon Source
Outdoor Test Platform
Thermal Facilities
1700 °C Tube Furnace with Vacuum and Steam capabilities
3 kW Induction Furnace
Thermal Conductivity Measurement Platform
Spectroscopy Facilities
Spectral Transmission and Reflection Spectroscopy capabilities from 220 nm to 40 μm across two instruments:
Bruker Vertex 70 FTIR Spectrometer with:
- 400 nm to 40 μm wavelength range
- Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR)
- Diffuse reflectance (DRIFTS) via Two-Detector Diffuse Gold Integrating Sphere
- Diffuse reflectance via Coblentz Sphere
- Liquid cell for transmission measurements
- Pellet press for making KBr pellets for solid transmission measurements
Shimadzu UV-2600 Spectrophotometer with:
- 220 to 1400 nm wavelength range
- Diffuse reflectance (DRIFTS) via Two-Detector Integrating Sphere
- Diffuse reflectance via Koblenz Sphere
High-Temperature (up to 2000 C) Emission Spectroscopy Setup (coming soon)
Optical Facilities
Calibrated Radiometry Sphere Uniform Light Source
High-Temperature (1000 C) Blackbody Source
Optical Table
Vacuum Facilities
24" Cubic High Vacuum (HV) Chamber
Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) Turbomolecular Pumping Station
Other Facilities
Fume Hood
Critical Point Dryer
Multifunctional Aerogel Fabrication Platform (coming soon)
