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राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान शिक्षा एवं अनुसंधान संस्थान

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
 

Research Facilities

Laboratory for Magnetism and magnetic materials

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 Ultrasonic cleaner Max 60 mins, upto 80°C heating TAKASHI, Japan sbedanta@niser.ac.in
2 Spin coater Milman thin films systems Pvt. Ltd sbedanta@niser.ac.in
3 Vacuum Chamber for Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) Chamber: 1” size substrates. Provision for mounting smaller size substrates. Accommodate 6 numbers of 1” dia targets. Resistive heater with maximum temperature 850 °C. Evico Magnetics, Germany (microscope part: Zeiss) sbedanta@niser.ac.in
4 Quantum Design Evercool SQUID-VSM
  • Temperature range: 1.8 K – 400 K
  • Magnetic field range -70 kOe to +70 kOe

AC susceptibility specifications:

  • AC frequency range 0.1 Hz to 1 kHz
  • AC amplitude1 (peak) 0.1 Oe to 10 Oe

Ultra-low field specifications:

  • Field uniformity ±0.05 Gauss
  • Target field range -5 Gauss to +5 Gauss
 sbedanta@niser.ac.in
5 Low temperature Magnetoresistance set-up
  • Model: Closed cycle cryostat from Oxford, UK.
  • Temperature 1.7 to 300 K.
  • Field up to 7 Tesla.
Transport and magnetotransport measurements are presently incorporated with Keuthley nanovoltmeter		 sbedanta@niser.ac.in
6 Ferromagnetic resonance set-up
  • Model: FMR set-up procured from NanoOsc.
  • Frequency range 2 to 17 GHz and magnetic field 1.5 kOe.
 sbedanta@niser.ac.in
7 Atomic Force Microscope and/or Magnetic Force Microscope
  • Model: Nano-Observer AFM from Concept Scientific Instrument, France.
  • Modes: Contact and Non-contact modes.
  • Magnetic Field: in-plane magnetic field upto 0.15 T can be applied.
  • Scan Area: ~ 100 µm × 100 µm
  • Resolution: depends on the probe radius.
  • Operating Temperature: Room Temperature.
 sbedanta@niser.ac.in
8 DC/RF magnetron sputtering system: It has 3 RF and 2 DC sputtering target along with 4 pocket e-beam and two port thermal boat facilities. One DC Nanogen sputtering for direct nano-particle synthesis. The base pressure is ~1x10-10 mbar. This system is dedicated for oxide and magnetic materials deposition Mantis Deposition Ltd. UK sbedanta@niser.ac.in
9 Magneto-optic Kerr microscope: Magnetic domain imaging and domain wall movement along with M-H curve for longitudinal, transverse, and polar geometry Evico Magnetics GmbH, Germany sbedanta@niser.ac.in

Thin Film Laboratory

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 Modular Thin Film deposition system It is a small UHV chamber with base pressure of ~5x10-7 mbar with 4 pocket e-beam and two port thermal boat facilities. This system is dedicated for metal deposition. Mantis Deposition Ltd. UK pratap.sahoo@niser.ac.in

Non-Linear optics Laboratory

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 Lifetime measurement facility using up-conversion based femtosecond-optically-gated (FOG) IOPB facility @ NISER lab: CDP Russia ritwick.das@niser.ac.in
2 High-power continuous-wave fiber laser for studying nonlinear optical interactions IPG Photonics, USA ritwick.das@niser.ac.in
3 High power femtosecond fiber laser for studying ultrafast nonlinearity Fiannium lasers Ltd., UK ritwick.das@niser.ac.in

Ultra Cold Atom Laboratory

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 External cavity diode lasers @780 nm (3 units) TOPTICA-DL100, Dl Pro. a.mohapatra@niser.ac.in
2 High power tunable frequency doubled diode laser @480 nm TOPTICA-SHG110 a.mohapatra@niser.ac.in

Experimental Facilities for open-ended higher semester teaching

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Nano Scan Technology Ltd., Russia
2 Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) PHYWE
3 Thin film deposition system using resistive heating Hind High Vacuum Co. Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore
4 Keithley high impedance electrometer for 2 probe I-V measurement Keithley Instruments Int. Corp.
5 Raman spectrometer with 785 nm diode laser excitation line, scanning range from 100-2200 cm-1, Optical resolution: 6.5cm-1 Enwave Optronics, Inc. EZRAMAN-M
6 Earth field NMR and MRI system Magritek-Terranova MRI
7 Laser Gyroscope PHYWE
8 Study of He-Ne laser principle and parameters PHYWE
9 Study of Nd-YAG diode laser principle and parameters PHYWE
10 Optical Holography Measurement PHYWE

Common Experimental Facilities

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) This is dedicated for imaging nano-scale materials. The energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) option is also available for elemental analysis of nano or microstructures Carl Zeiss NTS Ltd, UK cl_sps@niser.ac.in
2 Magneto-optic Kerr effect magnetometer (MOKE) in longitudinal and transverse geometry Hinds Instruments, USA cl_sps@niser.ac.in
3 Muffle Furnace Nabertherm, Germany cl_sps@niser.ac.in
4 Glove Box Braun, German cl_sps@niser.ac.in
5 Two Zone Vaccum Furnace Lenton, UK cl_sps@niser.ac.in
6 Photoluminescence cl_sps@niser.ac.in
7 Electroluminescence cl_sps@niser.ac.in
8 Wire bonder cl_sps@niser.ac.in
9 Optical Microscopy Inspection microscope cl_sps@niser.ac.in
10 Spin coater cl_sps@niser.ac.in
11 Photolithography and Mask aligner cl_sps@niser.ac.in
12 Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) Parallel plate plasma cleaner Parallel plate plasma etcher for H. Fillunger & Co. cl_sps@niser.ac.in
13 PECVD RF Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition MTI corporation cl_sps@niser.ac.in
14 Ball milling Retsch, Germany cl_sps@niser.ac.in
15 X-ray Diffractometer Thin film diffractometer for GIXRD and XRR etc. Rigaku Smartlab X-Ray diffractometer cl_sps@niser.ac.in
16 Laboratory press for making pellets using SS die Techno search instruments cl_sps@niser.ac.in

Ajaya Kumar Nayak Lab

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 PPMS (EverCool II) Cryogen free system for measurement of physical properties, such as, ac susceptibility, heat capacity, electrical transport, thermal transport as a function of temperature (2-400 K) and magnetic field up to 9 T. Quantum Design ajaya@niser.ac.in
2 Arc-melt Furnace Water cooled single Arc vacuum furnace for melting metals and metal alloys up to 20 gm samples in partial inert gas atmosphere. Edmund Buehler ajaya@niser.ac.in

HPC Facilities

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 HPC facility (RL514) Intel Xeon 1088 cores 30 TFLOPs  HPC  OEM: Supermicro
Vendor: Netweb		 jbhattacharjee@niser.ac.in
2 Dell precision tower 7910 Processor: Dual Intel Xeon, E5-2699 v4, 2 x 22 core , 55 MB Cache
Memory: Quad channel Memory 4x16 GB, 2400 MHz DDR4 ECC memory.		 Dell victor@niser.ac.in

Experimental High Energy Physics Lab (Heavy-Ion and Dark Matter)

Sl No. Inst. Name Specification Make Contact Photo
1 5 channel gas mixing system
  • Mixture gases – Freon, isobutane, SF6, argon and CO2.
  • Finely tunable mixing ratios depending on flow rate
  • The system can supply gas to 8 detectors simultaneously with a maximum flow rate of 50 sccm per channel
  • Output pressure control
  • Used for research in advanced gaseous detectors like Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC), Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) etc.
 Excel Gas and Equipments Pvt. Ltd vkashyap@niser.ac.in, bedanga@niser.ac.in
2 VME digitizer based data acquisition system with DPP-PSD and DPP-PHA firmware
  • V1730 digitizer
  • 16 channel
  • 500 MS/s sampling rate
  • Used in research related to neutron detectors for rare event experiments
 CAEN vkashyap@niser.ac.in, bedanga@niser.ac.in
3 Neutron source
  • Encapsulated Am-Be source
  • Activity: 1 mCi
  • Lead bricks, polyethylene and borated polyethylene sheets for shielding
  • Used in research related to neutron detectors for rare event experiments
 Eckert-Ziegler vkashyap@niser.ac.in, bedanga@niser.ac.in
4 Liquid scintillator detectors
  • Dia: 2/", height: 2/"
  • Neutron gamma pulse shape discrimination
  • Fast neutron detection
 Eljen Technology Pvt. Ltd vkashyap@niser.ac.in, bedanga@niser.ac.in