Facilities

The group uses various non-equilibrium processing routes. The various facilities for the same are as follows:

Liquid Route

  • Vaccum Induction Casting
  • Vaccum Suction Casting

  • Vaccum Arc Melting
  • Vaccum Melt Spinning


Solid Route

  • Planetary Micro Ballmill P7

  • Cryo Mill

  • Spex 8000 Vibratory Ball Mill
  • Vaccum Tube Sealing 10-8 mbar
  • Pulse Laser Deposition

Major Characterisation Facilities

The group uses a host of advanced characterisation facilities which are as follows:

  • JEOL Transmission Electron Microscope*
  • PanAnalytical X-Ray Diffractometer*
  • JEOL X-Ray Diffractometer*
  • Technai F-30 Analytical Transmission Electron Microscope#
  • Technai T-20 High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope#
  • Quanta 200 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope*#
  • Sirion Scanning Electron Microscope#
  • Differential Scanning Calorimeter*

* : Available as Departmental Facilities

# : Available at the Advanced Facility for Microscopy and Microanalysis (AFMM)