Baumbach Lab - Facilities

Measurement Facilities

Instruments available include:

• Quantum Design Physical Properties Measurement System
• Quantum Design Magnetic Properties Measurement System
• Single Crystal X-ray diffraction (Siegrist Laboratory)
• Powder X-ray diffraction (Siegrist Laboratory)

Preparation Laboratory

The preparation lab includes:

• 3 microscopes
• Soldering Stations
• Cutting and polishing facilities
• Chemical preparation
• Fume hood
• Micro-spot welder
• Dry boxes
• Mettler Toledo Semi-micro balance
• Hydraulic Presses
• Epiphot Metallurgy Microscope

Synthesis Laboratory

These facilities include:

Furnaces

• 3 Lindberg 1500 C Box Furnaces
• 1 Lindberg 1700 C top loading Box Furnace
• 1 MTI 1700 C Tube furnace with inert gas flow circuit
• 2 MTI 1200 C Tube Furnaces
• 1 Lindberg 1500 C Tube Furnace with inert gas flow circuit
• 1 300 C Clean Lindberg Drying Furnace (Popovic Laboratory)
• 1 Lindberg 1100 C Box Furnace
• 2 Lindberg 1100 C Tube Furnaces
• 1 Thermolyne 6000 1200 C Box Furnace
• 1 1000 C Top loading Kiln Furnace
• 2 Induction Furnaces
• 1 MTI Vertical 1700C Tube furnace

Hazardous Materials Synthesis Laboratory

• 1 Fume Hood
• 1 Lindberg 1700 C Box Furnace

Crystal Growth Preparation

• Quartz bench
• Arc furnace for metal tube sealing
• Inert gas glove box with TIG welder for metal tube sealing

Additional Synthesis Capabilities

• Arc furnace for reaction of intermetallics
• 2 Floating Zone Image Furnaces