The Cryogenic Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) is designed for measurement of the DC magnetic moment of a sample with a noise floor sensitivity of 10-6 and at 10 seconds integration time. The standard temperature range is 1.6 K to 400 K. The system has been upgraded to include measurements of electrical resistivity.
Deformation machine for dynamic and static uniaxial testing with loading capacity up to 25 kN. A thermal chamber is available for themomechanical testing in the temperature range -100°C – 550°C. Several types of grips for tensile and compressive testing are available. The machine may be coupled with Mercury videoextensometer allowing for optical 2D and 1D displacement and strain measurements based on Digital Image Correlation.
Physical Property Measurment System enabling measurements of magnetization/a.c. susceptibility, transport properties, specific heat, dilatometry and Raman spectroscopy in temperature range 0.35 - 400 K (magnetization up to 1000 K) up to 9 T
Physical Property Measurment System enabling measurements of magnetization/a.c. susceptibility, transport properties, specific heat, dilatometry and Raman spectroscopy in temperature range 0.35 - 400 K (magnetization up to 1000 K) up to 14 T
Coaxial measurements of complex impedance of bulk samples, 1 MHz - 1.8 GHz , 100-500 K. Electrodynamic calculation of complex permittivity (rod-like samples with electrodes) or permeability (rings)
Microwave resonance measurements (10 - 400 K) of complex permittivity in the shielding cavity at one frequency between 2 and 17 GHz; plate-like bulk samples and films on substrates
Room-temperature measurements of complex permittivity / conductivity of liquids, soft matter and plate-like samples; 200 MHz - 20 GHz, or 500 MHz - 50 GHz in case of liquids
Complex permittivity/conductivity measurements. Frequency range 3x10^-6Hz–20 MHz, 10–900K
Complex permittivity/conductivity measurements. Frequency range 100 Hz – 5 MHz, 10 – 900 K
Spectral range 15-10.000 cm–1, temperature range 5 – 950 K, transmission and specular reflection measurements
Multichannel detection, temperature range 10 – 1450 K, polarizing microscope (excitation @ 514 or 633 nm).
Optical AFM head – for Raman and AFM mapping (excitation @ 488 or 325 nm)
The calorimeter has a temperature range 210 – 900 K. The optimum mass of the samples is a few tens of mg but it could be lower. The RMS noise is ~1 mW.
(1) Spectrometer seeded by a femtosecond laser oscillator MIRA: for measurement of steady-state optical, dielectric and transport properties of solid and liquid samples in the range 0.1 - 3 THz.
(2) A setup powered by femtosecond laser amplifier SPITFIRE (1 mJ/pulse, 5 kHz repetition rate); optical pump - THz probe measurements of solids and liquids (0.2 - 2.5 THz); optical excitation using harmonic wavelengths (800 nm, 400 nm, 266 nm) or optical parametric amplifier (240 - 3000 nm)
Both spectrometers can be complemented by a cryostat or a furnace to cover temperatures 10 - 900 K.
Spectrometer seeded by a femtosecond laser oscillator VITESSE is used for measurements in magnetic field (0 - 7 T, 2 - 300 K, 0.2 - 2.5 THz).
Magnetic Property Measurement System - QD-MPMS-XL-7 is designed for precise measurement of magnetic response.
The EPR laboratory is equipped by spectrometer Bruker E580 ELEXSYS, designed to measure electron paramagnetic (spin) resonance in both modes - continuous wave (CW) and pulsed (FT), both in the most common X-band (9,4-9 8 GHz) and in Q-band (34 GHz) frequencies. In both frequency ranges spectrometer comprises a system for measuring ENDOR (electron nuclear double resonance) and ELDOR (electron-electron double resonance). The spectrometer is equipped with the cryostat allowing measurements in the range 1.8-300 K. The light excitation of samples can be performed with an optical cryostat system allows using various types of lamps or OPO laser generating ns pulses at wavelength interval 210-2700 nm.