Equipment and characterization methods

With our equipment we can offer you a wide range of characterization methods in the field of glasses and ceramics for reasearch and development only.

If you are interested please contact Dr. Tobias Fey .

Laboratories

Total space: 2050 m²
Laboratory: 1600 m²

 

• Processing workshop
• Polymer processing laboratory
• Bioengineering laboratory
• Cellular and porous ceramics laboratory
• Sol-gel laboratory
• Ceramography workshop with saws, grinders and polishers
• Rapid Prototyping laboratory
• Biomaterials laboratory (Centre of Medical Physics and Technology)

 

main equipment – analysis

• Dilatometers (up to 1800 °C)
• Thermal analysis (DTA/TGA/DSC/TMA)
• Thermal conductivity device
• 3 X-ray diffractometers (1x HT, 2x RT )
• Microwave (100 GHz) and ultrasonic devices for non-destructive testing
• 2 servohydraulic, high temperature mechanical testing systems
• Gas absorption analyser
• Hg high-pressure porosimeter
• ICP-OES (Spectro Analytical Instruments)
• Electrical measurements up to 1500°C
• 3-dimensional optical dilatometer
• Laser scattering particle size analyser
• Geo-pycnometer
• Laser granulometer (0.1nm – 100µm)
• Micro hardness tester
• Viscosimeter and high-temperature viscosimeter
• Single fibre tensile testing, screw extruder and measurement unit
• ESA acoustophoretic analyser
• High precision mechanical testing with optical tracking system (EXAKT)
• Thermo-Mechanical Analyser

• Environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)
• Atomic force microscope/colloidal probing facilities
• Scanning electron microscope (with EDX and WDX)
• Laser scanning microscope and Light Microscopes, Digital Microscope
• FT-IR spectrometer and 2 UV-VIS-NIR spectrometers
• 2 X-ray fluorescence spectrometers
• Interactive image analysis system
• 100 GHz microwave non-destructive testing device (PIC)
• Fluorescence spectrometers
• Raman-microscope with two excitation lasers
• µCT Skyscan 1172, max resolution 0.5µm/voxel

main equipment – processing

• Ball, vibration and attrition mills
• Kilns and Dryers (glass melting, high-temperature up to 2500 °C, vacuum)
• Tape caster and Fibre winding facilities
• Low-pressure injection moulding device

• Advanced screen printing device
• High precision cutting device
• 3-dimensional optical dilatometer
• Automated polymer pyrolysis furnace
• Thermal conductivity device
• Screen printer
• Advanced screen printing device
• High precision cutting device
• Lamination press
• Aerosol deposition
• Knee lever punch for green tapes
• Gradient oven
• 3D-Printer (Stereolitography, FDM, Direct Print)
• Laminated Object Manufacturing – LOM
• Fused Deposition Modelling – FDM
• High precision mechanical machining – CNC