Equipment
・Electric furnaces (horizontal position: annealing purposes)
(Wound up by all people in the group, 2013)
・Electric furnaces (vertical position: melting purposes)
(Set up by Mr. Horii, a senior student, 2013)
・Vacuum sealing station
(Set up by all people in the group & maintained by Mr. Horii, a senior student, 2013)
・Polisher wheel
(Refurbrished by Mr. Tamaru, a senior student, 2013)
・Hand polishing apparatus
(Designed and assembled by Mr. Tamaru, a senior student, 2013)
・Unidirectional solidification furnace (casting type)
(Set up by Mr. Sudo, a senior student, 2013)
・Unidirectional solidification furnace (Bridgman method)
(Designed and assembled by Mr. Suzuki, a senior student, 2013)
・Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Diamond DSC, Perkin Elmer
(In operation)
・Optical microscope w/ digital viewing system
・Ball mill system ("Planet Min," Nagao System Inc., 2014)
Hybrid heating system with DC pulse plus RF induction
Uniaxual pressure controlled up to 3t