Facilities
Instrumentation of the section:
- Panalytical X’pert Pro X-ray diffractometer, 3 instruments, one equipped with temperature control (T = -120 - 800 °C)
- Quantum Design MPMS-5S SQUID Magnetometer (5 T magnet, T = 2-380 K)
- Quantum Design MPMS-XL5 SQUID Magnetometer (5 T magnet, T = 2-380 K)
- QD Versalab withVSM magnetometer (3 T magnet, T = 100 – 400 K or 300 – 700 K)
- In-field DSC setup.
- Setup for direct measurement of magnetocaloric ΔT in/out field (1.2 T) at different temperatures.
- TA Q2000 DSC (T = -120 – +250 °C)
- Fritsch Pulverisette 5 Planetary Ball Miller
- Retsch rotary ball mill with WC garniture
- Vacuum Vibration Ball Miller
- Nitrogen-cooled Vibration Ball Miller
- Arc Melting Furnace
- Vertical/Horizontal Tube Furnaces (Tmax = 1200 °C)
- HYDRA hydrogen thermal desorption spectrocopy and H-D exchange (T = 77-700 K)
- Meltspinner SC Buhler
- Glove boxes (Argon atmosphere)
- 30 kN tensile tester Instron 5567
- 2 kN micro tensile tester Deben for synchrotron experiments
- 2 K micro cryostat Oxford Instruments MicrostatHe (T = 2-500 K)
Facilities at the Reactor Institute Delft:
- Neutron instruments (Diffraction, Reflectometry, Imaging, SANS, SESANS, NDP)
- Positron instruments (2D-ACAR, VEP, positron lifetime)
- Mössbauer spectrometers