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)
  • Glove Box (UL-1000A, UNICO Co., Ltd.)
  • equipped with the Inert Gas Purification System (CM-200, UNICO Co., Ltd., 2014)


  • Spark Plasma Sintering equipment (SPD4000-I, Dai-ichi Kiden Co., Ltd.,
  • 2014)
              
    Hybrid heating system with DC pulse plus RF induction
               Uniaxual pressure controlled up to 3t


  • High temperature furnace (FT-01VAC-1650, FULL-TECH Corp., 2014)
             
  • Heat treatments at temperatures up to 1600°C.



    inserted by FC2 system