Oven technology
Muffle, induction, chamber furnaces
Melting from < 100 g to 1 l
Tempering small volumes up to 1 m3
T up to 1800 °C
Gradient furnace 600 °C - 1350 °C
Various atmospheres
Process engineering
Research and development:
Thermal / chem. Hardening
Enamel
Foaming / foam glass
Fibre drawing (from the melt)
Laminating
Additive manufacturing
High pressure:
DAC up to 70 GPa and 1000 °C
FHP: Multi anvil and toroid press;
Shock wave laboratory
Characterisation
Thermal:
Dilatometry; STA; viscosity
Chemical:
ICP-OES, SEM-EDX, SNMS
Climate chamber, corrosion tests
Optical:
Microscopy (Pol; interference; confocal)
Refractive index (Abbé, Scalp)
UV-VIS spectroscopy
Mechanical:
Density (Archimedes, He pycnometry)
Universal testing machine up to 10kN (tensile/fibre tension, compression, double ring bending, ect. )
Tribometer
Microhardness
Structure:
X-ray diffraction, SEM, micro-Raman and IR spectroscopy