Laboratory of Advanced Materials - Department of Physics TUKE

Laboratory of Advanced Materials

The LPM is equipped with a Hitachi TM3000 scanning electron microscope with a SwiftED3000 EDX spectrometer, which can be used to display the surface structure of materials and simultaneously analyze their atomic composition. The microscope works in two modes: in the standard mode with high vacuum and in the mode for reducing the static charge on the surface of electrically non-conductive materials.

The laboratory uses a DSC Setaram Sensys evo for measuring the thermodynamic properties of materials in the temperature range from -100°C to 830°C and a Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer TA Instruments DMA Q800, with which it is possible to study the static and dynamic mechanical properties of materials at temperatures from -150 °C to 600°C.

The LPM also includes equipments for measuring the magnetic properties of materials:

1. giant magneto-impedance (GMI) effect in amorphous ferromagnetic wires and glass-covered microwires,
2. static and dynamic hysteresis loops using the fluxmetric method (LakeShore 480 Fluxmeter, 425 Gaussmeter),
3. dynamics of an individual domain wall during premagnetization of amorphous ferromagnetic wires and glass-covered microwires.