LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS

Because our team includes researchers from CTU and FZU institutions, we operate and analyze results on the following instruments:

Tecvac implantator

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

tecvat implantator

    • Ion energy: 1.4 keV, 90 keV
    • Nitrogen, oxygen, argon ions
    • Cooling / heating manipulator up to 500 °C
    • Adjustable ion fluence

Equipment for the PACVD method

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

    • Cooled / heated table
    • DC, AC and pulse plasma generator

IBAD universal deposition equipment

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

    • Dual electron beam evaporation
    • Argon/nitrogen/oxygen ion beam assistance with a maximum energy of 1 keV
    • Refrigerated or heated manipulator up to 600 °C.

Atomic force microscopy equipment

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

Nanoindentator

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

Computer simulations

     

    • Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Density functional theory
    • LAMMPS, TRIM, TRIDYN, VASP

X-ray powder diffractometer PANalytical X’Pert PRO

Institution: FNSPE, CTU in Prague

    • Co, Cu tube
    • Bragg-Brentano geometry
    • Linear X’Celerator detector
    • High temperature chamber (25 – 1400 °C)
    • Euler chamber for texture measurement

Rigaku SmartLab multipurpose X-ray diffractometer

Institution: FZU 

X-ray tomography

Institution: FZU 

    • ZEISS Xradia 610 Versa

SAXS/GI-SAXS/WAXS Anton Paar equipment

Institution: FZU 

 

High temperature THT tribometer from CSM Instruments

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

Metallographic polisher for the preparation of substrates

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague

Apparatus for the KALOTEST method

 Institution: FS, CTU in Prague