NMMR Group

                 The following facilities based on nation-wide collaborations enable the research team to develop nanocomposite permanent magnets through analysis, evaluation, and application of advanced nano-synthesis techniques. These facilities allow the team members, researchers and graduate students to generate new concepts and synthesize advanced nanomaterials that can be be extended and applied to more complex composite systems.

Facilities at UTA group

• Three fume hoods with chemical synthesis setups

• Three mechanical alloying stations

• Magnetron sputter system NSC4000

• Electrochemical deposition system

• Rapid thermal processor RTP600S

• Magnetic field press and Carver Manual Press

• Alternating gradient magnetometer Model 2900

• Magnetic properties measurement system (SQUID)

• Powder and thin film X-ray diffractometers

• STEM, SEM, TEM

• Double length glove box

• Nanotrac-size analyzer

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Facilities at UMD group

• Versatile pulsed-laser deposition systems with modular combinatorial flanges

• Multi-gun ultra-high vacuum sputtering systems

• Non-destructive scanning probe microscopes

• Scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope

• Scanning microwave microscopes.

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Facilities at GIT- Compaction group

• 80 mm diameter single-stage gas gun

• Imacon 2000 camera (200 million frams per second)

• State-of-the-art four-beam VISAR (Velocity Interferometer System for Any Reflector) interferometry.

• Four-channel Tektronix digital oscilloscopes

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Facilities at GIT-TEM group

• Hitachi S800 field emission gun (FEG) scanning electron microscope (SEM)

• JEOL 4000EX high resolution electron microscope (HREM) 400kV

• JEOL 100CX II transmission electron microscope (TEM) 100kV

• Atomic force microscope (AFM)

• NanoIndenter XP

• X-ray diffractometers

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Facilities at Brown group

• Chemical synthesis and self-assembly

• High field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers

• Kratos and Hewlett Packard GC/mass spectrometers

• Single crystal X-ray diffractometer

• Electron spin resonance and laser Raman spectrometers

• Differential scanning calorimeters and capillary electrophoresis apparatus.

• Scanning electron microscopes

• Superconducting magnets

• Far infrared interferometers

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Facilities at Argonne group

• Sputtering and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)

• Surface magneto-optic Kerr effect (SMOKE)

• Synchrotron-radiation and spin-polarized photoemission

• Brillouin and Raman scattering facilities

• High- and low-energy electron diffraction

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