Facilities
Facilities & Equipment
Gleeble 3500 GTC Thermal-Mechanical Physical Simulation System
Gleeble 3500 GTC
Induction and resistance heating
High-temperature capability (3,000˚C)
Optical pyrometers (500-1,800˚C and 800-3,000˚C)
Digital image correlation
Low-force pocket jaw
Hydrawedge MCU
High-vacuum and gas control environment
Arc Melting (Arcast)
Arc Melting (Buehler)
Edmund Buhler GmbH MAM-1 Mini Arc Melting System
Microspecimen Testing System
Microspecimen Testing System (custom built based on design by Prof. Dr. Eberl of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM)
iNano Nanoindenter
Nanomechanics Inc. iNano Nanoindenter
ORION Thin Film Magnetron Sputtering System
AJA ORION Magnetron Sputtering System: This magnetron sputtering system consists of 4 confocally oriented guns capable of depositing films of varying thicknesses and compositions under RF or DC bias. System includes ability to apply RF bias to substrates and to heat substrates for annealing or elevated temperature depositions.
FLX 2320-S Thin Film Wafer Curvature System
FLX 2320-S wafer curvature system (Toho Technology)
Kelvin Probe / Cathode Characterization Chamber
KP Technologies Kelvin probe system
Kelvin Probe / Ambient Atmosphere
Metallography
Automated grinding and polishing
Cutoff saws
Hot press
Optical Microscopy
Olympus compound microscope
Olympus stereo microscope
Zeiss inverted microscope
X-Ray Diffraction
Bruker D8 Advance
Thermal Analysis
Netzsch DSC-DTA-TGA
High-temperature furnace
Platinum furnace for heat capacity measurement