This Catalog is a compilation of equipment at the six Israel nano centers available to all users on a fee basis: internal users, researchers at other universities and industry

Instrument	Description	Equipment Location	Operator'>Technion Faculty		Academia	Industry	Operator	Faculty in Charge/Link	Contact email	Contact phone
			Operator	Self
4 - Laser Flow Cytometer Analyzer (BD LSR-II)	The BD LSR II is configured with four fixed-aligned air-cooled lasers (488 nm, 405 nm, 633 nm, and 325nm UV), 10 fluorescent detectors and two physical detectors. Additional user configurable fluorescent channels can be added. Signal processing is achieved by a digital acquisition system allowing for the measurement of height, area, and width from all parameters simultaneously with expanded channel resolution, lower electronic dead time, precise fluorescent measurements and linearity. This flow cytometer is capable of high-content, high-speed screening from 96- or 384 microtiter plates when employing the “High Throughput Sampler”. PC-based FACSDiva™ software drives experiment design, instrument control and data analysis. The program provides features such as reusable acquisition templates, an auto-spillover matrix for automated compensation, offline compensation, biexponential data display and a full range of EXCEL-compatible statistical parameters. Both the cytometer and software are user friendly.	Technion Life Sciences and Engineering Infrastructure Unit located in the Faculty of Biology	25$	-	25$	50$	-	http://isu.technion.ac.il	[e-mail]	04-8295834
3 - Laser Flow Cytometer Sorter (BD FACS Aria- II)	The digital FACS AriaII is a stream-in air sorter capable of separating up to four different populations or single cells (<300 to 70,000 events/second) and depositing them into test tubes, microtiter plates or slides. This cytometer is configured with 3 lasers (488nm, 633nm, 405nm), 10 fluorescent detectors and two physical detectors. Four different sized nozzles allows for handling cells of varying sizes. Aseptic sorting can be performed. PC-based FACSDiva™ software drives experiment design, instrument control and data analysis. The program provides features such as reusable acquisition templates, an auto-spillover matrix for automated compensation, offline compensation, biexponential data display and a full range of EXCEL-compatible statistical parameters.	Technion Life Sciences and Engineering Infrastructure Unit located in the Faculty of Biology	25$	-	25$	50$	-	http://isu.technion.ac.il	[e-mail]	04-8295834

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LSM 700 - Inverted confocal

The LSM 700 laser scanning confocl microscope from Zeiss is a spectral imaging confocal system designed for live-cell imaging. It is hooked to an inverted fully motorized Axio Observer Z1 microscope.

Technion Life Sciences and Engineering Infrastructure Unit located in the Faculty of Biology

http://isu.technion.ac.il

[e-mail]

04-8295834

Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx

The platform employed in the Illumina System applies parallel, shotgun, clonal sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS) of millions of immobilized oligonucleotides that are repetitively sequenced using reversible fluorescence-based terminator chemistry. Sample libraries of DNA are prepared with ready-to-use kits followed by random fragmentation from randomly fragmented DNA. The fragments are then polished and prepared for the addition of unique adapters to each end of the DNA fragments. Following PCR enrichment, the library is loaded onto Illumina flow cells in the c-Bot Cluster Generation System where isothermic amplification of the attached DNA fragments occurs, creating clonal clusters of roughly 1,000 copies each. The clusters are moved to the Genome Analyzer IIx system which generates large quantities of DNA sequences in a single run (~1Gb) in the form of short reads. When required, the Paired-End Module is employed for sequencing of both ends of a template. Sequence Control Software is employed for real-time analysis processing of the data generated and reads can be aligned to a reference sequence and analyzed using the Pipeline Analysis Server.

Technion Life Sciences and Engineering Infrastructure Unit located in the Faculty of Biology

http://isu.technion.ac.il

[e-mail]

04-8295834

NANCO computer cluster

128 dual-core processor (2.2 GHz AMD Opteron) LINUX cluster; fast VOLTAIRE interconnect based on DDR Infiniband; provided by SUN/EMET; fully operational since mid-summer 2007, with a good range of compilers and MPI for parallelization.

Computer Center, Center for Computational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

http://phycomp.technion.ac.il/~nanco/

[e-mail]

Instrument	Description	Equipment Location	Technion Faculty		Academia	Industry	Operator	Faculty in Charge/Link	Contact email	Contact phone
			Operator	Self
FEI Strata 400S Dual Beam FIB	The dual-beam focused ion beam (FIB) at the Technion was purchased with the support of TELEM, and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. The system is based on a FEI Strata 400S. The Strata 400 STEM Dual-Beam system is a fully digital field emission scanning electron microscope (FEG-SEM) equipped with FIB technology and a Flipstage-STEM assembly. It provides for complete in-situ sample preparation and high-resolution analysis.	Materials Engineering faculty					Dr. Tzipi Cohen-Hyams	http://materials2.technion.ac.il/Mika/index.php		04-8295144
	The key enabling technologies are all integrated onto a single platform such as: Ultra-high resolution electron optics (magnetic immersion lens with ultra-high brightness Sirion emitter) with SE and BSE in-lens detection and STEM imaging. High-resolution (field emission) Ion Optics (Sidewinder™ column). Advanced control of Gas Chemistries including Delineation Etch, Metal Etch, C Deposition, Pt Deposition, SiO2 Deposition, and Au Deposition. High-precision piezo specimen stage with 100 mm travel along the x and y axes, and integrated loadlock. Omniprobe 200 sample extraction system for lift-out TEM specimen preparation. Flipstage pivoting TEM grid mount. Retractable, multi-region STEM detector (including HAADF). A high-resolution 4k digital patterning engine. Automation with full access to e-beam, i-beam, patterning and gas chemistry functionality. The system architecture is optimized for automation, which is includes AutoFIB, AutoTEM, AutoSlice and View, and the ability to develope custom-made routines for specific application needs.
Solids State NMR Spectroscopy Laboratory	500 MHz NMR spectrometer (Avance III, Bruker; 11.75 Tesla magnet) is capable of multi-nuclear NMR characterization of solid samples (organic, inorganic, composites). The spectrometer is equipped with four RF channels and MAS (magic angle spinning) probes. The three types of MAS probes operate at spinning rates of up to 18, 35 and 60 kHz (respective rotor outer diameters are 4, 2.5 and 1.3 mm). The lab also uses two 300 MHz NMR spectrometers with three RF channels (Avance III, Bruker and CMX-Infinity, Varian; 7.05 Tesla magnets) .	Schulich Faculty of Chemistry		Will be determined after installation is completed			Dr. Shifi Kababya	Schulich Faculty of Chemistry	[e-mail]	04-8293748, 04-8292140