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