RESEARCH FACILITIES

 

 

 

WITHIN OUR LAB

 

Characterization

 

*       Static magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) magnetometer.

*       Time-and space resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TR-MOKE) microscope with better than 80 fs temporal and 700 nm spatial resolutions.

*       Broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectrometer using a 20 GHz Vector Network Analyzer and a high frequency probe station.

*       Microfocused and Conventional Brillouin light scattering setup (under construction).

*       Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy setup (jointly with Dr. Rajib Mitra).

*       Optical and electronic components and detectors for setting up new experiments. 

 

Fabrication

 

*       DC and RF sputtering unit with 10-9 mbar vaccum chamber (under construction).

*       Electrodeposition setup.

*       Synthetic lab for preparation of various nanoparticles by chemical route.

 

Computation

 

*       Several high performance PC and workstations are used for following simulation works.

*       Micromagnetic simulations by using OOMMF, NMAG, LLGMICRO (commercial) license.

*       Self built codes for micromagnetic simulations and calculation of magnonic dispersion relations.

*       COMSOL for solving various thermal, acoustic and RF based problems.   

*       Monte Carlo simulations (jointly with Dr. Saswati Barman).

*       Thermal conduction in solid (jointly with Dr. Saswati Barman).

 

 

INSTITUTE FACILITIES

 

*       Scanning electron microscope with EDX spectroscopy

*       High resolution transmission electron microscope with EDX and EELS.

*       Atomic and magnetic force microscopes.

*       X-ray diffraction, reflectivity and rocking curve analysis.

*       Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)

*       Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA).

*       Vibrating sample magnetometer.

*       Pulsed laser deposition with Excimer laser (ArF, KrF).

*       Dual beam focused ion beam lithography.

*       Class 10000 (with small class 1000 spaces) clean room.