Facilities
The lab is equipped with the following instrument for a proper materials fabrication, sample preparation, and characterization.
has the following facilities:
Materials Fabircation
Magnetron Sputtering machine
Main features:
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Turbo-pump vacuum level
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two active cathodes: dc + ac
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Substrate heating to 600°C
Heat Treatments
Inert atmosphere and vacuum Tube furnaces
Main features:
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Annealing with high purity Ar
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Pre-vacuum of 0.01 mbar
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Heating up to 1000°C
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Ramp control
Vacuum furnace
Main features:
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Base pressure 10E(-7) mbar
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Heating up to 1000°C
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Self-designed (with a company)
Burnout furnace
Main features:
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Heating up to 1000°C
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20 liter chamber
Mechanical Treatments
Cold rolling
Main features:
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Rolling of plates starting from thickness of 8mm
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Automatic flow
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control over the speed of wheels
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Suitable for materials up to hardness 64
Multi-directional Forging
Main features:
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50 kN load cell
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Compression and three point bending
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Load or displacement control
Sample Preparation
Cutting wheel disk
Main features:
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Load-cell to control feed rate
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Load-cell to control applied force
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Multiple disk materials
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Water-cooled cutting
Diamond wire saw
Main features:
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Very smooth cut surface - minimal deformation
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Control of cutting force and wire speed
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Water-cooled
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Materials range: anything from sponge to hard materials
Automatic polishing machine
Main features:
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Control over force and speed
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From abrasive grinding to OPS polishing
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Wide range of polishing cloths and liquids
Vibro-polishing machine
Main features:
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Control of vibration frequency and force
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A range of polishing cloths and liquids
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Extremely smooth deformation-free surfaces
Material Characterization
Optical Microscope
Main features:
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Up to 100x objective lenses
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Bright field and Dark field
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Multiple filters
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Camera features and image analysis
Benchtop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Main features:
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SE and BSE detectors
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EDS
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large samples are also possible
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variable vacuum level
Nano-probing nano-manipulators system
Main features:
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Perform local electrical measurements inside SEM
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Four independent probes
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Compatible with Phenom and Zeiss SEMs
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Manipulators move in steps range between microns to nano-scale
Keithley devices
Main features:
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Nano-Voltmeter
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Sensitive current generator
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Ability to measure fractions of mili-Ohms accuracy in metals
Probing station
Main features:
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Four probes - manually aligned
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Heating stage to 600°C and cooling to liquid nitrogen
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Accurate temperature ramp control
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Suitable for Can-dep-Pauw method
Nanoindenter
Main features:
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Berkovic tip
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Linear arrays of nano-indentation
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From μNs Up to 500 mN
Induction melting furnace
Main features:
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Bulk alloy fabrication by induction melting
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Heating up to 2000 °C
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High purity Ar atmosphere
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Graphite and copper dies - volume ~20 cm³