Visit & facilities
The group works in two places. Devices are made in the Microelectronics Research Center on the Pickle Research Campus, and tested in our lab in EER on the main campus.
Test lab and offices · main campus
Engineering Education and Research Center (EER)
Prof. Hall's office is EER 4.802. The Acoustical MEMS Test Laboratory is on the fourth floor.
Getting there
- Park in the San Jacinto Garage.
- Leave the garage onto San Jacinto Blvd and walk north.
- Cross the back bridge into EER. You arrive on floor 0.
- Take the South tower elevators to the fourth floor.
Cleanroom · Pickle Research Campus
Microelectronics Research Center (MRC)
10100 Burnet Rd., Building 160, Austin, TX 78758
Getting there
- Enter the Pickle Research Campus from Burnet Rd.
- With a UT parking permit you can park anywhere on PRC. Without one, you need a paid PRC parking sticker.
Facilities
Microelectronics Research Center
More than 12,000 sq ft of Class 100 and Class 1000 cleanroom, part of the NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Includes an active-materials processing bay for chemical-solution deposition of piezoelectric films, and sputtering systems for aluminum nitride.
Acoustical MEMS Test Laboratory (EER)
Four laser Doppler vibrometers, white-light interferometry, a 6-axis precision fiber aligner, fiber-coupled tunable lasers and photodetectors, 3-axis scanning ultrasound tanks, electromechanical shakers for IMU testing, network analyzers for dielectric characterization, and multi-core workstations running COMSOL, ANSYS and MATLAB.
Center for Nano and Molecular Science (CNM)
Shared characterization tools on campus, including X-ray diffraction and crystallography of piezoelectric materials.
Texas Acoustics
Acoustics research at UT Austin spans five colleges, with twelve acoustics courses in the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Contact
Prof. Neal A. Hall · nahall@utexas.edu · 512-471-2349
Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin