Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay

Synthèse, Propriétés et Modélisation des Matériaux

In addition to the large equipment available in the ICMMO platform, the SP2M team has a number of small and medium-sized equipment.

  • Three image furnaces (Crystal System FZ-T-4000-H-II-PP, Crystal System FZ-T-4000-H-VII-VPO-PC et NEC SC-N15HD)
  • One femtoseconde IR Laser (Satsuma, Amplitude Systèmes)
  • One HF induction furnace
  • Three MOCVD reactors
  • Two rolling mills, one with crenellated rollers
  • One sheet metal guillotine
  • Fifteen or so furnaces (0 < T < 1700°C)
  • One isostatic press (0 to 3000 bar)
  • One device for heat treatment under controlled oxygen partial pressures (CO/CO2 buffer)
  • Two inert gas (Argon) glove box
  • One planetary mill
  • Polishing machines, diamond saws, wire saws
  • Several metallographic microscopes (Olympus PMG-3, Leica S9i ...to complete...)
  • Dilatometer
  • Two ATD-ATG devices (SETARAM "TG-DTA 92" from 20 to 1600 °C and "TAG24" from 20 to 1800°C), one ATG-DSC device (SETARAM "DSC92" from -140 to 550°C) and one Wetsys SETARAM humidity generator HR (100%)
  • FTIR spectrometer equipped with an IR microscope Nicolet
  • Six RX generators équipped with Laüe, precession and Weissenberg chambers
  • Two texture goniometers
  • One tensile stress machine (Zwick/roell Z010)
  • Two microhardness testers (Shimadzu HMV-G-FA Vickers et Knoop, Leco M-400-H)
  • Two creep test machines
  • One SQUID magnetometer (Quantum Design MPMS-5, 0-5.5 T, 1.7 to 800 K) with insertion probe for electrical measurements
  • A set of electrical resistivity measurement by the points probe method (4 to 300K)
  • One HP complex impedance meter
  • One interferometric profilometer
  • One home-made device allowing very fast measurements of the type and carrier concentration at high temperature (mesure de l'effet Hall effect measurement using an alternate field created by a Halbach-type magnet attached to a rotative platform)
  • Quantitative Phase Measurements (QPM) (Olympus BX51 equipé d'un objectif piezo PI)
  • Quantitative measure of birefringence (Olympus BX51)
  • Refractive Index Measuring Bench
  • Stokes polarimeter (Meadowlark Optics)
  • Photoluminescence measurement (Olympus BX50)
  • Vacuum VUV-UV spectroscopy apparatus (Horiba Jobin-Yvon LHT30)
  • One 3-nodes Dell PowerEdge R910 cluster (3 x 64 CPUs – 1 Go RAM/CPU – 11 To HD)
  • Two Dell PowerEdge R640 workstations (2 x 48 CPUs – 2 Go RAM/CPU – 2 x 2,4 To HD)
  • Femtosecond Laser Applications in Glasses (FLAG)
  • Thermal diffusivity measurments
  • Ile de France Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) platform