About SAIF

The Sophisticated Analytical Instrumental Facility  at CSIR−Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata,  has been created with an objective of providing all analytical facility under one roof in order to share high-end Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facilities with Academic institutions/industries/Govt. Organizations/ students and Scientific  community in the areas of Ceramics and Glass Sciences and Technology. Research focus of CSIR-CGCRI has been given major emphasis in the three major sectors namely National security or strategic, Industrial development (primarily small & medium scale industries) and societal activities covering some of the well defined problems of national importance such as Energy, Water, Health Care, Communication and Instrumentation.
 Testing and Characterization Cell (TCC) is a R & D support  cell to act as Single Window Clearing Unit for all testing and characterisation related services  to  fulfill the research need of R&D divisions in the Institute and also to other Researchers working in various Universities, Research Institutes, Government Organizations and  Industries situated in various part of India
Testing of raw materials & products in the field of Glass, Ceramics, Refractory and Composites are being carried out as per National and International standards, wherever applicable.

The Some of the major testing programme of this Institute includes the following facilities:

SEM, EDAX, TEM

XRD – qualitative & quantitative

ICP & AAS (Chemical Analysis) Chemical Analysis – wet chemical analysis and instrumental (ICP & AAS ) based analysis

Optical property evaluation

Mechanical property evaluation of ceramic, refractory & composite materials

Thermal & Thermo-mechanical property evaluation of refractory materials

DTA, TGA & Surface Area (BET) evaluation

Evaluation of Dielectric properties of Ceramics and Glasses