Laboratory facilities
The
Laboratory facilities include:
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Two
Piston-cylinder apparatii, one of which has a kiloton force capacity (and can
be converted to a multianvil press for experiments to
pressure of ~ 15 GPa).
The kiloton press is equipped with
facilities for insitu differential thermal analysis (DTA)
studies to determine melting temperature as a function of pressure,
compressibility measurements, and controlled heating-cooling experiments at
high pressure.
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Many
hydrothermal apparatii for experiments at low pressure including rapid quench experiments
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Controlled
gas atmosphere furnaces with controlled
heating-cooling facilities
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A thermogravimetric setup
for insitu
reaction kinetic study by continuous monitoring of weight loss
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Powder
x-ray diffractometer
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Thin
film deposition set up
Important supporting facilities:
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Mineral
Physics Laboratory (Dr. Robert F. Downs): 2 four circle single crystal x-ray diffractometers, Raman spectroscope, Diamond cells
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Chemistry
Department: An area detector single crystal diffractometer
(routinely used by us)
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Planetary
Science: Multi-anvil press (Prof. Mike Drake), Electron microprobe (joint
facility)
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