This page contains a list of equipment in our lab as well as the research facilities here in UTA that we have access to.

Material Synthesis.  

• Three fume hoods with chemical synthesis setups to synthesize nanoparticles

• Four mechanical alloying stations including one in the presence of magnetic field

• Magnetron sputter system NSC4000 (high vacuum, 6-gun system)

• Electrochemical deposition system (Parstat 2273)

• Tri-Arc Melting furnace

• Melt Spinner

Heat Treatment and Compaction

• High temperature heat treatment furnaces Lindberg (two + one connected to the glove box)
• Rapid Thermal Processor RTP600S (up to 200C/s ramp rate) Modular Process Technologies  
• Magnetic field press (25 ton, custom built by Baki)
• Carver Manual Press (10 ton, located in the glove box)
• High temperature, large volume Linberg three-zone solid tube furnace

Magnetic Characterization

• Alternating Gradient magnetometer Model 2900 Princeton Measurements Corporation 
• Magnetic Properties Measurement System (SQUID) Quantum Design
• Physical property measurement system (PPMS, 14 T, 2 K to 1,000 K temperature) Quantum Design

Structural and Microscopic Characterization (MRCEDM)

• SympTech microsize analyzer (Quixel)
• Laser particel size analyzer (Nanotrac 250)
• Two Powder X-ray Diffractometers (one in MSE and one in Geology)
• Thin film X-ray Diffractometer
• A JEOL 1200 EX STEM w/light element Oxford AN10000 EDS
• A JEOL 845 SEM that is capable of 40 Angstrom resolution w/
  digital acquisition, EDS and x-ray mapping
• JEOL 200CX TEM with resolution of 2.8 A point to point, 1.4 A line (with high resolution pole piece). Magnetification: 900X to 650,000X

Miscellaneous

• Double length glove box (nitrogen) Innovative Technology
• Transparent table top glove box
• Nanotrac - Optical LASER scattering apparatus for particle size measurement (~0.8 nm to 6 um)
• Ultra Microbalance UMX2 (~0.1 ug) Mettler Toledo
• Two Analytical Balances (~0.1mg) Mettler Toledo
• Two electromagnets for field alignment of magnetic particles

Apart from the above mentioned equipment in UTA, we also have access to other facilities through our various collaborators.