FACILITIES AVAILABLE

Services on the following instruments of multi-disciplinary utility are available to all research workers both within and outside the University on requisition and on 'First come first served' basis.

• Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM)
• Gas chromatograph
• Miniflex Desktop X-ray Diffractometer(XRD)
• Thin Film Lab
  This laboratory is totally devoted to the synthesis and characterisation of thin films developed by various methods. View
• Gold Sputter Coating Unit (Indigenous Make)
• Thin Film Vapour Coating Unit with ion cleaning & substrate heating facility.
• FTIR
  installed in 2006 and is operating successfully
• Raman
  installed in mid 2006
• AFM
  to be installed by early 2008

Other Facilities
Apart from the Analytical Services, this Department has the following Workshops as central facility.

• Mechanical Workshop:
  (a) Lathe
  (b) Grinding Machine
  (c) Drilling Machine
  

• Glass Blowing Shop:
  (a) Ajustable Flask Holder
  (b) Glass Cutter
  (c) Bench Burner
  (d) Fire Fly
  

• Electrical & Electronics Shops:
  (a) Multimeters
  (b) Oscilloscopes
  (c) Function Generators
  (d) Frequency counters
  (e) L-C-R meter
  (f) Micro-Ohm meter
  (g) Power supplies

Furnace for heat treatment of Metals & glass upto 14,500C.

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