{"id":359,"date":"2016-03-30T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:25:03","slug":"facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following facilities, infrastructure, and singular equipment are available in our group:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chemistry lab for the synthesis of precursor solutions of metal oxides, including an inert atmosphere glovebox system and Schlenk lines for handling moisture sensitive reagents (e.g., metal alkoxides).<\/li>\n<li>High-energy planetary ball mills (Fritsch Vario-Mill Pulverisette 4 and 6 models) with WC and steel grinding bowls and balls.<\/li>\n<li>Hot pressing system (up to 1000 \u00baC and 100 MPa) and conventional annealing furnaces (up to 1600 \u00baC).<\/li>\n<li>Tape-casting for the preparation of thin ceramic tapes from ceramic slurry (Tape Casting Warehouse, Inc.).<\/li>\n<li>Rheometers (Brookfield HBDV-III+ and R\/S-CPS models).<\/li>\n<li>Ultrasonic processor (Sonics &amp; Materials Inc., Vibra-Cell<sup>TM<\/sup>).<\/li>\n<li>System for photocatalysis in liquid medium, including a solar lamp (Osram, Ultra-Vitalux, 300 W) and gas flux lines.<\/li>\n<li>UV\/Vis spectrophotometer (Biochrom Libra S35).<\/li>\n<li>Class 100 cleanroom for the fabrication of thin films, including spin- and dip-coating techniques and hot plates.<\/li>\n<li>Rapid thermal process system (Jipelec JetStar 100T Processor), inside the cleanroom.<\/li>\n<li>UV-assisted rapid heating system comprised of an excimer lamp (Heraeus Bluelight Curing Module, 222 nm), and either a ceramic heater (Watlow, Ultramic Advanced Ceramic Heater, 155W\/cm<sup>2<\/sup>) or an infrared lamp (250 W), inside the cleanroom.<\/li>\n<li>Sputter for substrate metallization and electrodes deposition (Bal-Tec SCD 050), inside the cleanroom.<\/li>\n<li>Electrical measurement lab for the macroscopic characterization of bulk and thin-film ceramic capacitors, including a Radiant Precision Premier II materials analyzer, LCR-meters and impedance analyzers, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, electrometers, current amplifiers, probe stations (cryogenic, high-temperature) and smaller equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Electric-field induced deformation measuring system (PerkinElmer TMS2) for bulk ceramic capacitors, including a lock-in amplifier and a magnetomechanical dilatometer. A Berlincourt test system (Channel Products Inc.) is also included.<\/li>\n<li>Complex analysis of piezoelectric resonances in bulk ceramic capacitors by impedance spectroscopy (1 Hz &#8211; 1 MHz), using finite element analysis to determine the elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric coefficients from the matrix characterization of a piezoceramic.<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic mechanical analysis (PerkinElmer DMA7), including 3-point bending system probe (from -120 \u00baC to 1000 \u00baC).<\/li>\n<li>Magnetoelectric response measuring system (Serviciencia S.L.) consisting of two Helmholtz coils (high power and high frequency) designed to independently provide a static magnetic field (up to 1000 Oe), and an alternate magnetic field (of 10 Oe) up to a frequency of 150 kHz. A dc current source up to 20 A is used to drive the high power coil, while a function generator plus a specifically built transconductance amplifier is used to drive the high frequency coil. Magnetoelectric voltages are sensed with a lock-in amplifier.<\/li>\n<li>Piezoresponse force microscopy for the local characterization of thin-film capacitors, including WSxM\u00ae software (Nanotec Electr\u00f3nica, S.L.).<\/li>\n<li>Profilometer (Taylor-Hobson Form Talysurf50).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">support laboratories<\/a> of ICMM-CSIC (internal services) are also available on request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following facilities, infrastructure, and singular equipment are available in our group: Chemistry lab for the synthesis of precursor solutions of metal oxides, including an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/eosmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}