Arc melting furnace with seven cavities and suction casting mold for 6mm rod, operating temperature over 3000 oC, sample mass up to 10 g for each cavity.
Vacuum Melt Spinning System with 15kW power supply and vacuum casting attachment (controlled rapid solidification rates), high-purity argon atmosphere, sample mass up to 20 g, wheel speeds up to 31 m/s, suitable for nanocrystalline materials, and optimum microstructure design.
1200°C Muffle Furnace (CF1200 series) with Kanthal Elements, with built-in computer interface, chamber size (DxWxH) - 12x8x8 cubic inches, (b) 1200°C Muffle Furnace, chamber dimension 12x8x5 cubic inches with vent port and quartz window.
Quartz crucible sealing station built by stainless steel vacuum supply to seal the sample in a vacuum and inert gas atmosphere for growing single-crystalline and poly-crystalline materials.
Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS, DynaCool, Quantum Design) with electric transport option (ETO), Hall resistivity, dc resistivity, multiprobe option, vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) with and without pressure up to 1.3 Gpa, and heat capacity. Temperature range 1.7 K – 400 K, and magnetic field range 0 – 9T.
Glovebox - all-welded stainless steel glovebox for inert atmosphere research, dimension 1200(W)x750(D)x900(H) mm.
Digital Low-Speed Diamond Saw
Heavy Duty Dual Platens Grinder/Polisher with magnetic plates
57Fe Mossbauer spectrometer
Scanning electron microscope: Tescan Vega3 XMU tungsten variable pressure scanning electron microscope with an Oxford Instruments 50 mm2 X-Maxn Silicon Drift Detector (SDD). It has Secondary (both high and low vac), and Backscatter electron capabilities, a cathodoluminescence detector, and an EBSD attached.
X-ray powder diffractometer, and x-ray single-crystal diffractometer
WIEN2k software and relevant facilities for electronic structure calculations
