Divisional Facilities

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Humidity controlled laboratory for special glass melting
Salient features:

• Maximum melting Temperature: 1500^oC
• Furnace Type: Raising hearth for glass melting and box type muffle furnace for annealing and heat treatment.
• Control: PID (Eurotherm)
• Working Humidity (minimum): 20 % RH

Glass melting furnaces
Salient features:

• Maximum Temperature: 1700^oC
• Furnace Type: Raising hearth for glass melting and box type muffle furnace for annealing and heat treatment.
• Control: PID (Eurotherm)

High Temperature Observation Furnace
(Make: M/s Glass Service Inc., Czech Republic; Model: GPI system-XP/D)
Salient features:

• Furnace Tempmax. : 1600^oC
• High temp observation: Image analyser with digital camera
• Capabilities : can capture the complete course of batch melting and refining process
• Behavior of single bubble during glass melting
• Bubble growth and shrinkage
• The glass forming process
• Reboiling temperature, the dissolution of solid bodies in glass melt
• Measurement of surface tension

Microwave furnace 1600^oC
(M/S SAIREM, France)
Salient features:
Processing chamber: 304 stainless steel, cavity size of 427x427x488 mm
Temperature measurement: Infrared Pyrometer (350-1600^oC)

• MW output power: 0.6 to 6 kW, multimode microwave furnace
• Frequency: 2.45 GHz
• Atmosphere of operation: Air/ inert/ reducing ( 5% H₂ with N₂)

Rocking Furnace
(Make: Deltech, USA)
Salient features:

• Max temperature: 1000^oC
• Rocking about 45 degree in both ways
• Equipped with Auto quenching mechanism

Planar Magnetron DC Sputtering Unit
(Make: Hind High Vaccum Co.Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore, India; Model: 12" MSPT)
Salient features:

• High Vaccum Coating Unit for metal Contacts.

Interferometer
(Make: M/s Zygo corporation, USA; Model: GPI system-XP/D)
Salient features:

• Measurement : Flatness and bulk optic homogeneity
• Test beam : 4 inch (102 mm) to 6 inch (152 mm)
• Accuracy : up to 10-6 homogeneity
• Resolution : better than l/8,000
• Samples : size -10 mm -6" flats/bulk

Polarimeter
(Make: M/s Strainoptics Inc., USA; Model: DIAS-1600)
Salient features:

• Equipped with : Digital image analysis system with software
• Measurement : Residual stress or Retardation
• Range : -140 to 140 nm/mm in H.S mode || 0 to 285 nm/mm in STD mode
• Viewing area : 75 mm
• Samples : Transparent solids (transparency above 50 %)

Prism coupler
(Make: M/s Metricon Corporation, USA; Model: 2010/M)
Salient features:

• Equipped with five lasers : 473,532,633,1064 and 1550nm (as light sources)
• RI Measurement range : 1 - 3.1
• Accuracy : 0.0001
• Capable of measuring waveguide loss for 633 - 1600 nm
• Samples : solids (thin films, bulk plates)

UV-Vis-NIR Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
(Make: M/s Photon Technology International; Model: custom configuration)
Salient features:

• Wavelength range - Ex : 200-1000nm || Em : 200-2540nm
• Lifetime range : in microseconds to milliseconds
• Samples : solids (plates, powders etc.) and liquids

Raman Spectrometer
(Make: HORIBA Jobin Yvon, France; Model: Lab Ram HR 800 EV)
Salient features:

• Range: 50 - 3000 cm^-1
• Excitation source: 785 nm diode laser and 480 nm Argon ion laser
• Equipped with LINKAM temperature controller (-150^oC to 600^oC)
• Samples: Bulk and Powders

UV-Vis-NIR Spectrometer
(Make: Perkin Elmer, USA; Model: LAMDA 950)
Salient features:

• Wavelength range: 200 to 3200 nm
• Spectral mode: Absorbance, Transmittance and Reflectance (Specular and Diffuse)
• Equipped with 150 mm Integrating Sphere for diffuse Reflectance (250 to 2500 nm)
• Samples: Solids, Powders, films and Liquids

FTIR Spectrometer
(Make: Perkin Elmer, USA; Model: Frontier FT-IR/FIR Spectrometer)
Salient features:

• Range: 30 - 700 cm^-1 (FIR region); 400 - 4000 cm^-1 (MIR region)
• Windows: KBr for MIR and Polyethylene for FIR region
• Samples: Bulk, Powder (Using KBr binder)
• Spectral mode: Absorbance, Transmittance and Reflectance

Simultaneous Thermal Analysis (DSC, DTA, TGA)
(Make: NETZSCH, Germany, Model: Jupiter)
Salient features:

• Temp. Range: RT- 1650^oC
• Temp. Accuracy: 0.5^oC
• Windows based Thermal Analysis software: Proteus 6
• Measurement Mode: TG/DTA and TG/DSC with sensor based technology
• Equipped with Robotic arm for Auto Sample loading

Micro Hardness Tester
(Make: Clemex CMT, Canada; Model: MMT-X7)
Salient features:

• Computer control micro-hardness tester
• Test method: Knoop and Vickers

Optical microscopes
(Make: Olympus Japan; Model: BX51)
Salient features:

• Equipped with Objective Lenses: 5X, 10X, 20X, 50X and 100X