Facilities

The Patek Lab houses cutting-edge facilities and equipment:

  • temperate and tropical aquarium facility
  • Photron Nova, SAX, and SAZ high speed video cameras (up to 1 million frames per second)
  • Instron materials testing machine for high rate testing
  • dissection microscopes
  • long distance K2 microscopes
  • digital SLR cameras and macro lenses
  • piezo impact force sensors
  • hydrophones, including low frequency and cavitation-sensitive
  • multi-channel acoustic amplifiers
  • physiological electromyography amplifiers and stimulators
  • acoustic chamber
  • 3D printing facility