Further equipment for the sample preparation preliminary to the crystal growth and for analysis can be used via our lab in the same way.
The complete list of available instruments will be updated soon.
Furnaces
HKZ - High Pressure High Temperature Optical Floating Zone Furnace
Modular, highly expandable set-up concept:
- Pressure versions: 300 bar, 150 bar, 50 bar, 10 bar
- Melting temperatures: up to 3000 °C
- Vertical 2-mirror setup with one xenon arc lamp
- Permanent mass flow control for each process gas
- Patented in-situ pyrometric T measurement
- Step-less power shutter irradiation control: 0-100 %
- Capsuled, magnetically coupled sample translation feed through systems
LKZ - High Pressure High Temperature Laser Floating Zone Furnace
Modular 5 × 300 W diode laser-heated FZ furnace with rectangular beam profile and advanced process gas management up to 300 bar
- Process gas pressure up to 300 bar
- Laser wavelength 980 nm
- Melting temperatures: 300 °C to 3000 °C
- Laser beam geometry: rectangular profile with 4 x 8 mm and 4 x 4 mm (other sizes on request)
- High-resolution CCD camera with HDR image optimization, pyrometric T measurement
- Dimensions: 3020 x 1630 x 800 mm (H x W x D)
A-HSO - Advanced High Pressure Oxygen Furnace
Annealing and ultra fast quenching apparatus with up to 200 bar pO2
Annealing oxide rods and quenching meta-stable phases at high pressures with any stable and flowing gas mixtures:
- Pressure: 200 bar
- Temperature: 1300 °C
- Atmosphere: O2 and Ar - pure and in any mixture
- Automatic or manual ultra-fast sample quenching
- Pre- and post-process O2 concentration analysis
LBS - 4- Zone Low Pressure Bridgman Furnace System 10 bar
- Up to 1900°C process temperature
HBS - 4- Zone High Pressure Bridgman Furnace System
High-pressure high-temperature Bridgman-type crystal growth furnace
- Atmosphere: argon, pressure up to 100 bar
- Multiple independent temperature zones with up to 1900 °C
- Chamber dimensions according to customer specifications
HSO - High Pressure Oxygen Annealing Furnace (horizontal setup)
- Pressure: 1 to 150 bar
- Maximum temperature: 950 °C, higher temperatures possible on request
KTS - Levitation Melting Facility for metallic rod casting
Preparation of ultra-clean alloys and casting rods
Hukin-type cold-crucible RF induction melting apparatus for ultra-clean alloy and casting rod preparation:
- Casting of metallic rods from levitating melt
- 40 kW 100 kHz magnetic field generator
- Turbo pump system for 10-5 mbar vacuum
- Process control with CCD camera and 2-color pyrometer
PTM - Phase Transition Microscope
Light-heated high resolution optical sample analysis tool
Direct visual observation of temperature-induced phase transitions at up to 1500 °C, heating and cooling rates up to 50 K/s:
- Study melting, solidification or other phase changes
- Make fast and easy phase diagram studies
- Search new fluxes
GDM - Glass drilling- and reaming machine
For the sample preparation you can use:
- Planetary ball mills
- Levitating melt rod casting facility
- Cold isostatic press, hot press
- Muffle furnaces, forging furnaces
- High temperature microscope
- Wire saw, ultrasonic cutter
- Grinding and polishing machines
- Focussed Ion Beam (Ga2+ ions)
The following list shows an extract of the available analysis methods:
- X-ray powder diffraction and single crystal XRD
- Electron and Ion Microscopy (SEM and TEM, with EDX, WDX and EBSD)
- NMR (magnetic fields up to 16 Tesla, temperatures from 1.5 to 500 K, and pressures up to 3 GPa)
- Electron spin (paramagnetic) resonance spectrometry (ESR/EPR)
- Optical spectroscopy (UV-vis-NIR, FT-IR, Raman, luminescence)
- Chemical element analysis (ICP-OES, ICP-MS, AAS, Titrimetry, UV/VIS Spectrophotometry)
- Non-metal analysis (C, O, N, S with Carrier gas hot extraction)
- Thermal analysis (DSC, DTA, TG-MS)
- PPMS: measurement of heat capacity, thermal conductivity, magnetization, dielectric constant and resistivity
- Cryostats and magnetometers