Materials Design for Solar Energy and Interface Engineering

Equipment

  1. Materials Preparation
    • High-frequency vacuum dissolution equipment (Fuji Denpa Kogyo)
    • Crystal growth equipment (Daia Vacuum)
    • Electrical discharge plasma sintering device (Sumitomo Coal Mining Co., Ltd.)

  2. Materials Processing
    • Spark cutter (SANYO)
    • Multi-purpose lathe
    • Low-speed diamond cutter, Isomet (Buehler)
    • Vibratory polisher, Vibromet (Buehler)

  3. Heat-treatment
    • Superconducting magnetic field heat-treatment system / 6T, 1500ºC (Sumitomo Heavy Industry)
    • DC magnetic field heat-treatment system / 1.5T, 1200ºC (Tamakawa / Thermo Riko)
    • AC magnetic field heat-treatment system / 60Hz, 0.5T, 1500ºC (Denshijiki Industry / Thermo Riko)
    • Siliconite furnace / 1200ºC
    • Tube furnace / 1100ºC (Koyo Thermo Systems)

  4. Microstructural analysis
    • Field emission (FE) SEM/OIM (Automatic crystal orientation analysis system), HITACHI S-4200 (Hitachi / TSL)
    • Field emission Scanning Electron Microscope/EDS analysis system (EDAX)
    • Field emission Transmission Electron Microscope (shared), Tecnai (FEI)
    • Focused Ion Beam (shared) (FEI)
    • Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (shared)
    • High-temperature microscope / 1500ºC (Japan High Tech)
    • Kerr effect microscope (Olympus)
    • Optical microscope (Olympus)

  5. Property evaluation
    • Vibrating sample magnetometer，VSM (Tamakawa)
    • Super high temperature all-purpose tester AG-50kNG /50kN, 2000ºC (Shimadzu / Sowa Kagaku)
    • Scanning probe microscope SPM9500J (Shimadzu)
      - Surface potential measurement system (Kelvin probe method)
      - Measurement system for local current
      - Measurement system for local thermal conductivity (μ-TA)
    • Ultraviolet photometer UV-2400PC (Shimadzu)
    • Vickers hardness tester (AKASHI)
    • Magnetic field differential scanning calorimeter (installation scheduled for this year)

  6. TEM sample preparation
    • Atom milling (Meiwafosis )
    • Tenupol (Marumoto-Struers)
    • Ion coater (Eiko)
    • Wire saw (Meiwafosis)
    • Ultrasound cutter (Meiwafosis)
    • Thin film making device and ion slicer (Japan Electron Optics Laboratory) (installation scheduled for this year)

  7. Miscellaneous
    • Electronic balance / 0.1mg (Sartorius)
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