Facilities

Laboratory for Magnetism and magnetic materials

Laboratory for Magnetism and magnetic materials
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact
1	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
2	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
3	Ultrasonic cleaner	Max 60 mins, upto 80°C heating	TAKASHI, Japan	sbedanta@niser.ac.in
4	Spin coater		Milman thin films systems Pvt. Ltd	sbedanta@niser.ac.in
5	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
6	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
7	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
8	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
9	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

Thin Film Laboratory

Thin Film Laboratory
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact	Image
10	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

Non-Linear optics Laboratory
#	Inst. Name	Make	Contact
11	Lifetime measurement facility using up-conversion based femtosecond-optically-gated (FOG)	IOPB facility @ NISER lab: CDP Russia	ritwick.das@niser.ac.in
12	High-power continuous-wave fiber laser for studying nonlinear optical interactions	IPG Photonics, USA	ritwick.das@niser.ac.in
13	High power femtosecond fiber laser for studying ultrafast nonlinearity	Fiannium lasers Ltd., UK	ritwick.das@niser.ac.in

Ultra Cold Atom Laboratory

Ultra Cold Atom Laboratory
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact	Image
14	External cavity diode lasers @780 nm (3 units)		TOPTICA-DL100, Dl Pro.	a.mohapatra@niser.ac.in
15	High power tunable frequency doubled diode laser @480 nm		TOPTICA-SHG110	a.mohapatra@niser.ac.in

Experimental Facilities for open-ended higher semester teaching

Experimental Facilities for open-ended higher semester teaching
#	Inst. Name	Make
16	Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)	Nano Scan Technology Ltd., Russia
17	Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)	PHYWE
18	Thin film deposition system using resistive heating	Hind High Vacuum Co. Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore
19	Keithley high impedance electrometer for 2 probe I-V measurement	Keithley Instruments Int. Corp.
20	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
21	Earth field NMR and MRI system	Magritek-Terranova MRI
22	Laser Gyroscope	PHYWE
23	Study of He-Ne laser principle and parameters	PHYWE
24	Study of Nd-YAG diode laser principle and parameters	PHYWE
25	Optical Holography Measurement	PHYWE

Common Experimental Facilities

Common Experimental Facilities
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact
26	Photolithography and Mask aligner			cl_sps@niser.ac.in
27	Reactive Ion Etching (RIE)	Parallel plate plasma cleaner	Parallel plate plasma etcher for H. Fillunger & Co.	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
28	PECVD	RF Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition	MTI corporation	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
29	Ball milling		Retsch, Germany	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
30	X-ray Diffractometer	Thin film diffractometer for GIXRD and XRR etc.	Rigaku Smartlab X-Ray diffractometer	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
31	Laboratory press for making pellets using SS die		Techno search instruments	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
32	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
33	Magneto-optic Kerr effect magnetometer (MOKE) in longitudinal and transverse geometry		Hinds Instruments, USA	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
34	Muffle Furnace		Nabertherm, Germany	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
35	Glove Box		Braun, German	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
36	Two Zone Vaccum Furnace		Lenton, UK	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
37	Photoluminescence			cl_sps@niser.ac.in
38	Electroluminescence			cl_sps@niser.ac.in
39	Wire bonder			cl_sps@niser.ac.in
40	Optical Microscopy		Inspection microscope	cl_sps@niser.ac.in
41	Spin coater			cl_sps@niser.ac.in

Ajaya Kumar Nayak Lab

Ajaya Kumar Nayak Lab
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact	Image
42	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
43	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

HPC Facilities
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact	Image
44	HPC facility (RL514)	Intel Xeon 1088 cores 30 TFLOPs HPC	OEM: Supermicro Vendor: Netweb	jbhattacharjee@niser.ac.in
45	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)

Experimental High Energy Physics Lab (Heavy-Ion and Dark Matter)
#	Inst. Name	Specification	Make	Contact
46	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
47	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
48	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
49	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

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