• ICP synthesis setup
• High-energy milling: PM400 planetary ball-mill (Retsch)
• VPS/APS: Medicoat 50 kW with powder feeder (F-4 & V21 nozzle)
• Glove-box with regeneration unit (Jacomex)
• Powder sieve shaker (Retsch AS 200?)
• Powder mixing (Turbula, WAB AG Machinenfabrik)
• Particle size distribution analysis: Powdershape (image analysis)
• Laboratory scale microwave applicators, portable micro-wave furnaces for in situ synchrotron radiation experiments
• Microwave furnace (Fricke & Mallah)
• Pilot semi-industrial scale microwave oven (Püschner)
• IR spectrometer (Bruker)
• IR thermometry (Raytek)
• Vacuum/inert gas conventional furnace (Carbolite)
• Laboratory Electro Hydrolic Press (Enerpac 700bar)
• Hot-pressing, hot-extrusion
• Spark plasma sintering (in collaboration)
• High speed camera (Motion Pro Y4S3, Videal)
• Optical Emission spectrometer (Ocean Optics, HR2000)
• Oscilloscope 1 GHz, 12-bit, 4ch HDO6k (HDO6104, LeCroy)
• Laboratory for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) (fabrication and interrogation)
• 1 complete acoustic emission system from Vallen Systeme GmbH with various acoustic sensors, including hydrophone

• 4 polishing machines
• 3 cutting machines (Discotom 2 and Accutom 5)
• 7 furnaces (Temp. 0 - 250ºC and 0 – 1500ºC)
• 1 polycut (Reichert Jung), lab. for material etching.
• Special machine for sample preparation 
• Coating (Balzers BAE 250)
• Ion-milling (Balzers RES 010)
• Electro-polishing machine Polimat
• Hot press tool model 10 HS (Paul-Otto Weber Maschinen)

• 1 Coherent Avia 266-3000 ns laser at 266nm
• 1 Eximer Laser System XXL 248 nm (2x1.5 m2)
• 1 Eximer Laser System XL 248 nm (40x40 cm2)
• 1 Excimer Laser 193 nm
• 1 Rofin-Lasag LFS150 OEM (1070 nm) with fiber optic / fiber heads
• 1 SLS 200 C60 Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers 1064 nm
• 1 Nd:YAG Laser (Modell GCR-230, Spectra-Physics)  (to be installed)
• 1 C02 Laser (Modell Allmark 853-MS, Alltec) (to be installed)

• hardness (Vickers, Brinell, etc…)
• microhardness (1mN to 2 N)
• Digidrop GMX (contact angle measurement)
• Diffraction efficiency measurement set-ups ^
• Polariscope for photoelasticity measurements

• 1 SEM Zeiss DS 965 with EDX and EBSD
• Software Crosscourt (strain-stress measurements)
• 3 light microscopes (2 Axiomat and 1 Axioplan)
• Confocal Keyence VK-8700
• 2 Digital Holographic Microscopes with stroboscopic mode (1 DHM in transmission and 1 DHM in reflection)
• Imageaccess
• AnalySIS (digital imaging solutions)

• High Temperature Vacuum Tribometer (Anton Paar Pin-on-Disk tribometer combined with a DHM)
• SRV high frequency oscillating tribometer (SRV Optimol- Germany)
• Home-made tribometer for back and force movement with in-situ optical measurements

White light optical profilometer Altiprob (Cotec- France)