AN AUTONOMOUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY, GOVT. OF INDIA

Welcome to the Experimental Facilities @ IOP

Facility Use Links:

  1.      Ion Beam Laboratory: Beam Time Request (BTR)

        Please see the link: http://www.iopb.res.in/~ibl_btr

  1. Electron Microscopy User Time Request
    http://www.iopb.res.in/~tem_iopb/temrequest.html

  1. Squid VSM User Time Request
    http://www.iopb.res.in/~squidvsm/

Following are the experimental facilities available at IOP.

I. Ion Beam Facilities:

  1. 3.0 MV Pelletron Accelerator (NEC-make) – MCSNICS ion source

Ion Beam Laboratory: Beam lines for RBS/Channeling, ERDA (End Station from NEC), PIXE, Implantation, and AMS are available
[Contact: dpm@iopb.res.in]

50 keV Low Energy Ion implanter – SNICS ion source [Contact: dpm@iopb.res.in]

Focused Ion Beam (FIB) (Zeiss-make): 2 keV – 30 keV (in combination with FEGSEM) [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

Low Energy Broad Beam Ion Source (Tectra GmbH-make): 50 eV – 2 keV for ion etching work (ion source coupled with Prevac-make chamber)
[Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

II. Microscopy Facilities:

200 keV Transmission Electron Microscope (Jeol, Ultra high resolution), PP resolution: 0.19 nm (www.iopb.res.in/~tem_iopb) [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

2 – 30 keV Field Emission Gun based Secondary Electron Microscope with FIB attachment. Best resolution: 1.2 nm; attachment: EDS, GIS, Liftout, Raith Lithography (http://www.iopb.res.in/~em_iopb) [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

      UHV–STM (this is an integral part of Omicrom MBE system)

(http://www.iopb.res.in/~mbe) [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

Scanning Probe Microscopes (VEECO-make)

(http://www.iopb.res.in/~shikha/afm.html) [Contact: shikha@iopb.res.in]

Large-area, High-precision Atomic Force Microscope (Asylum Research-make)

[Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

III. Spectroscopy Facilities:

  1. X-Ray photoelctron Spectroscopy Facility (VG Scienta-make)

http://www.iopb.res.in/~shikha/xps.html [Contact: shikha@iopb.res.in]

  1. Angle Resolved UPS facility (Omicron GmbH-make)
    [Contact: sekhar@iopb.res.in]

  1. Ti:sapphire laser based up-conversion system (CDP-make)

[Contact: dpm@iopb.res.in]

  1. He-Cd laser (Kimon Koha-make) based Photoluminescence System (Edinburgh Instruments-make) with low temperature facility (Oxford Instruments-make)

[Contact: dpm@iopb.res.in]

  1. UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu-make)

  1. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR) (Thermo Nicole-make)

  1. Micro-Raman System (Jobin Yvon-make)

IV: Thin Film Growth Facilities:

CVD set-up (indigenously built) [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

HV thin film deposition unit (Hind Hivac-make)

UHV e-beam evaporation (Telemark-make 2×5.5 KW guns integrated with Excel Instruments-make UHV chamber) [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

DC/RF magnetron sputtering (Excel Instruments-make coupled with Advanced Energy-make pulsed DC and RF power supplies) [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) with RHEED, STM, 3 Knudsen Cells for evaporation of Ge, Au and Ag; e-beam evaporator (Omicron GmbH-make)

[Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

Low Energy Cluster Beam deposition (LECBD) machine (indigenously built)

V. X-ray Based Analyzing Methods:

Grazing Angle X-ray Diffractometer (GAXRD), Powder Diffractometer (Bruker-make)

High-resolution XRD system with reciprocal space mapping (Bruker-make)
[Contact: dpm@iopb.res.in]

18 kW Rotating Anode based X-ray Reflectometry and X-ray Standing wave facility (with Rigaku-make X-ray system and a Huber-make 4-circle difrractometer)

[Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]


X-ray Fluorescence set-up

VI. Other Facilities:

Chemical Labs (with ductless fumehood (Esco-make), centrifuge, LB film deposition set-up (Nima-make), Spin coater, Milli Pore Water purifiers, LCR Meter)

Furnaces: Rapid Thermal Annealing Unit, Low Vacuum Furnace

Surface Profilometer (Ambios-make) [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

Cyclic Voltameter set-up (Ecochemie B.V.-make) [Contact: shikha@iopb.res.in]

Upcoming Facilities:

SQUID–VSM based MPMS System (Quantum Design-make)
[Contact: sekhar@iopb.res.in]

Pulsed laser deposition unit (Coherent GmbH-make laser coupled with Excel Instruments-make chamber and optics) [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

Low energy Ion Milling Station [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

Probe-station, Transport Facilities [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

High temperature Furnaces (in high vacuum) (MTI-make) [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

Plasma Cleaner [Contact: satyam@iopb.res.in]

PPMS System [Contact: sekhar@iopb.res.in]

Spectral Response Set-up [Contact: tsom@iopb.res.in]

Confocal Microscope (with micro-Raman spectrometer option)
[Contact: shikha@iopb.res.in]