Facilities & Equipment

This page contains a list of equipment in our lab as well as the research facilities here at 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

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

Alternating Gradient magnetometer Model 2900 Princeton Measurements Corporation
Physical Property Measurement System (DynaCool PPMS, 9 Tesla, Temperature range of 1.8 K – 1000 K) Quantum Design

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

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.