Available infrastructure at the Institut für Materialwissenschaft

The institute has laboratory space of roughly 1000 m² available. The technical infrastructure comprises material synthesis and testing across a vast range of methods.

Synthesis

• Full scale chemical laboratories (70 m² + 20m²) with 9 fume hoods
• Horizontal tube furnace ROC 85/450/13-3z (T_max = 1500°C) (Thermconcept), inert gases, oxygen, or reducing gases (forming gas)
• Horizontal tube furnace ROC 75/450/15
• One muffle furnace (T_max =1400 °C) with possibility of sintering in a gas atmosphere
• Four muffle furnaces (T_max =1100 °C) (Nabertherm)
• Muffle furnace P330 (T_max=1200°C) (Nabertherm)
• Tube furnace MTF 12/38/250 (T_max=1200°C) (Carbolite)
• Polishing TegraForce-5 (Struers)
• High pressure laboratory reactor (autoclave) BR-300 & Logger BTC-3000 (Berghof)
• High temperature – folding oven RSH 50/250/13 (1300°C) (Nabertherm)
• Two inert gas glove box systems, one for synthesis and one for high purity processing and characterization (laminar flow, AFM inside)
• Bridgman oven for single crystal synthesis (up to 1350°C, inert gases and oxygen) & high temperature oven (1600°C) (Carbolite-Gero RE-O)
• Planetary Ball Mill PM100CM (Retsch)
• Nano-Flex DLS nanoparticle size analyzer (Particle Metrix)
• Sputter coater, Cressington 208 HR
• Evaporation source (metals and organic molecules, Lesker Spectros 150) 30 -1200 °C
• Centrifuge 320 R (Hettich Zentrifugen)
• Centrifuge Labofuge 400e (Heraeus Instruments)

Material Analysis

• X-Ray Diffractometers: Panalytical Empyrian and Bruker D2 Phaser
• Scanning Electron Microscope FE-SEM, Philips, Model XL30
• TEM at central facilities (ICAN) of the University
• Atomic Force Microscopes: MFP-3D, Asylum Research and Ntegra, NT-MDT
• Differential scanning calorimeter (Netzsch, DSC 300 Caliris Classic)
• Custom built adiabatic calorimeter with electrocaloric option: -170°C up to +170°C
• Chip-DSC 100 (400°C) (Linseis)
• Light Flash LFA 467 HyperFlash (Netzsch)
• Helium pycnometer Pygnomatic-ATC (Porotec)
• Dilatometer DIL 402 Select Expedis (-170°C-600°C) (Netzsch)
• Granulometer Cilas 1064
• Optical Microscope VHX-7000 (Keyence)

Electrical Analysis

• Dielectric spectrometer SOLARTRON ST 1260 with Dielectric Interface 1296
• Dielectric Hewlett Packard 4192 full bridge impedance analysis
• aixACCT TF Analyzer 2000 (piezoelectric, ferroelectric and impedance measurements)
• High voltage amplifier TREK PD05034

Mechanical Analysis

• Universal load frame AG-X Plus, 20 kN (Shimadzu)
• Hydraulic load frame 300 kN (Walter & Bei)
• Isostatic press 500-0,25 (Hofer Rahmenpresse)
• Sub-micron displacement fracture toughness tester (custom built)
• Attocube optical displacement sensor system laser fiber based (highest resolution)

Building Materials

• Ductile tester Duktilometer 41050 (Strassentest OHG)
• Dynamic shear rheometer SmartPave 101 (Anton Paar)
• Bending beam rheometer (Coesfeld Materialtest)
• Shrinking cone (Schleibinger)
• Viscomat NT (Schleibinger)
• Mobile rheometer eBT-V (Schleibinger)
• Penetrometer (InfraTest Testing Systems)
• Ultrasonic-Multiplex-Tester IP-8 (Ultratest)
• Drying ovens (T_max=120°C) (Memmert)
• Drying ovens H20 (T_max=120°C) (Memmert)