RESEARCH FACILITIES

Department of Plasma Chemistry

• Centrifuge (SIGMA 4K10)
• Continuous fluidized bed drier and granulator (laboratory size)
• Continuous mechanically spouted bed dryer with inert packing (laboratory and big laboratory size)
• Determination of corrosion rate in high-resistance systems
• Dielectric measurement device (in 5 Hz – 5 MHz range)
• ECWR plasma beam source (IPT PSQ100)
• Electrochemical measuring techniques (potentiostatic and galvanostatic, stationary and transient voltametric facilities, electrode impedance spectroscopy, noise spectroscopy, harmonic analysis)
• Fast atom beam treatment facility (Ion Tech FAB 114)
• Freeze-dryer (Lyovac GT2, Leybold-Heraeus)
• High temperature reactors for gas-solid reactions
• Homogenizer (Braun)
• ICP-OES spectrometer (Thermo Jarell Ash Atomscan 25)
• Methods for the evaluation of lifetime and paint-technological properties of coatings
• Microwave Digestion System (Anton Paar Multiwave 3000)
• Nanotribology tester (MicroMaterials Nanotest 600)
• Particle size analyzer (Malvern 2600 and Mastersizer)
• Plasma immersion ion implanter (ANSTO)
• Polarographic-voltammetric equipment
• Rapid corrosion resistance tests
• RF and DC magnetron sputtering sources (AJA A315-UA, A320-UA)
• RF induction plasma systems (Linn, Tekna)
• Spark Plasma Sintering machine (HP D 5/2, FCT GmbH; bought in 2010 with the financial support of NKTH)
• Spectrometer with CCD-3000 detector (Jobin-Yvon TRIAX 550)
• Ultrasound homogenizer (Heat Systems-Ultrasonics W- 220 F )
• UV-VIS spectrophotometer (Biochrom 4060)
• X-ray photoelectron spectrometers (Kratos XSAM 800, VG Escascope)