Equipment
Equipment Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing
- 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
Metallography / Samples preparation
- 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)
Lasers
- 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)
Material characterization
- hardness (Vickers, Brinell, etc…)
- microhardness (1mN to 2 N)
- Digidrop GMX (contact angle measurement)
- Diffraction efficiency measurement set-ups ^
- Polariscope for photoelasticity measurements
Microscopy
- 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)
Tribology
- 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
Topography
White light optical profilometer Altiprob (Cotec- France)