EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTING FACILITIES

Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Testers (New Building, Ground Floor Lab)


Nanoindenter : High load (up to 10 N), low load (up to 10 mN), high temperatures (up to 800 deg C)


Micro-mechanical tester : Various load cells (10 N - 5 kN), high temperatures (300 deg C in RT, 800 deg C in SEM), in situ testing


Universal Testing Machine : Table top; Various load cells up to 5 kN capacity, high temperatures (1000 deg C), video extensometer


Custom Made Mechanical Testers (Various places)



Curvature measurement : Laser based curvature based system (3 points in line)


Impact tester : Custom designed and built micro-impact tester, programmable electric field




Creep Testing Facility (in C-113)



Dead weight machine 1 : Small loads (up to 1 N), high temperatures (up to 800 deg C)


Dead weight machine 2 : Small loads (up to 1 N), high temperatures (up to 1000 deg C)


Lever-arm machine 1 : Small loads (up to 100 N), high temperatures (up to 800 deg C, Short exposure)


Thin Film Deposition (New Building, Third Floor Lab)



Metallic thin film deposition : Single target DC Magnetron sputtering-cum-thermal evaporation unit


Metallic & oxide thin film deposition : Dual target RF/DC magnetron sputtering unit with substrate rotation and heating


Thin film deposition accessories : Spin coater, 100 class laminar flow hood and UV light source chamber


Electromigration Test Setups (New Building, Third Floor Lab)



Electromigration test unit : High vacuum system with tubro pump and electrical and optical feedthroughs


Electromigration test unit : High vacuum system with diffusion pump and electrical and optical feedthroughs


Liquid electromigration test unit : Glove box with electrical feedthroughs


Characterization / in-situ Facilities (New Building, Ground Floor Lab)



SEM : Scanning electron microscope with environmental (up to 4000 Pa) and low vacuum (100 Pa) modes; EDS


Thermal Camera : IR based camera with 6 micrometer spatial resolution


Optical microscope: Stereo-microscope (up to 80 and 120x) and Inverted metallurgical microscope mounted on XYZ stage (up to 1000 x)


Miscellaneous Lab Equipments (Various places)



Environmental Chamber : Large chamber, thermal cycling between -70 to 180 C, temperature ramp-up and ramp-down at 1 C per s, humidity control from 0 to 95% (between 20 and 90 C)


Table-top Electro-Magnet : Up to 1.5 Tesla magnetic field, gap range: 10 mm to 120 mm


Misc. Electrical Equipment: Pulsed power supply (up to 1000 A, 50 V), Source meter, Nano voltmeter with 4-wire probe, various current sources