Facilities
| Details | Contacts | |
| Clean Room | - Class 1000 - Wet etching |
Davide Janner |
| Cutting machines | - ATM Brillant T220, - Buehler IsoMet |
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| Fibre Drawing |
Drawing of soft glass fibres and optical fibres Drawing Temperatures up to 1000 °C |
Davide Janner |
| Heating microscope | - Hesse Instruments EM 301 | Federico Smeacetto |
| High temperature furnaces |
Tubular Furnaces: - Nabertherm (1600°C) -LENTON(1600°C) - Carbolite(1200°C) Muffle Furnaces: - BICASA(1500°C) tubular furnaces (1100°C, inert atmosphere) - Nabetherm & Linn Electronic muffle furnaces (1800°C) - Carbolite CWF 1200 muffle furnace (1200°C) - Carbolite HTF1800 (1800 °C) - CARBOLITE CWF1300 (1300°C) - NABERTHERM (1300°C) - Manfredi OVMAT2009 muffle furnace (1100°C) - BICASA muffle furnace (1450°C) |
Sara Ferraris |
| Hot press | - Hot-Press PRO.BA (1800°C, 40 tons) vacuum/Ar | Valentina Casalegno |
| Mechanical tests | - Young's modulus via resonance frequency test (Grindosonic) (*) - Vickers, Brinell, Rockwell Hardness, Shore D, ASTM D2240 (*) - Mechanical test machine (SINTEC D/10) (*) |
Milena Salvo |
| Thermal poling set up | -Thermal poling of materials | Sergio Perero |
| Climatic chambers and thermal shock tests |
- Heraeus™ HC 0020 - Votsch™ VT 4020 - Heraeus™ HT 7012S2 |
Sergio Perero |
| Polishing machines |
- Struer LaboPol-2 - Hi-Tech Europe AP311 |
Milena Salvo |
| Porosimeter | - Porosimeter 2000 FISONS - Macropores Unit 120 FISONS |
Enrica Vernè |
| Profilometry | Taylor Hobson Intra Touch 3D | Sergio Perero |
| Superficial Analysis | Contact Angle (Kruss) | Marco Sangermano |
| Refractometer | Abbe Refractometer – Refractive index measurement by prism coupling method (Metricon M2010) at five different wavelengths: 633, 800, 1060, 1320, 1533 nm. | Davide Janner |
| Spectroscopies |
- UV/Vis-NIR Cary 500 Varian Absorption spectroscopy - Fluorescence spectroscopy resolved in frequency and time in the wavelength range between 400 and 5000 nm: pump wavelengths available 785, 793, 915, 976 nm. - Shimadzu UV- Visible spectrophotometer 2600-2700 + integrating sphere - X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS, Phi 5000 Versa ProbeTM) * - FTIR Thermo-Nicolet (with ATR accessory) |
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| Sputtering and Surface Treatment |
- Magnetron (RF, DC, pulsed DC) confocal three target (3 inches) co-sputtering
with: atmosphere control (three gasses mixture) plasma etching reactive
deposition substrate heating and cooling substrate biasing. - Atmospheric Plasma (PlasmaTEC-X TANTEC) - Vacuum Etching Plasma (TUCANO) - Corona Plasma (HF-SpotTEC TANTEC) |
Sergio Perero |
| Temperature calibration oven | EC-6 (Dott. Ing. Scandura and C SpA) | Davide Janner |
| Thermal analysis |
- DMA7 Perkin Elmer (max temp.1000°C) - STA (TGA-DSC) Netsch, (max temp.1600°C) |
Federico Smeacetto Milena Salvo |
| Microscopic analysis |
- Optical microscopy - Benchtop Scanning electron microscopy (JEOL) equipped with EDS
analyzer |
Marta Miola |
| Electrophoretic deposition | - Electrophoresis BOCHEM LABOR BEDARF | Federico Smeacetto |
| Crystalline phase analysis | - X'Pert Philips diffractometer with hot stage * - Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS- Philips instrument) * - Equipment for X-ray diffrattometry Rigaku for metallic sample measurements.* - Microdiffractometer Rigaku for measurements on micrometric areas (from 800 to 10 microns); high resolution instrument (4800 x 2400); output: 2D X-Ray pattern* |
Elham Sharifikolouei Fabiana D’Isanto |
| Facilities for biological samples treatment |
- Laminar flow biological cabinet FASTER CYTOSAFE 2000N modified with filters
for chemical reagents. (M-MEDICAL) - Orbital shaker KS 4000i control, IKA® - Centrifuge (Z326- HERMLE) - Diode Laser 808 nm |
Enrica Vernè |
| Fluorescence spectroscopy equipment | - MM and SM Laser diodes for sample and fibre optical excitation at the
following emission wavelengths: 785, 795, 808, 976 nm with powers. - iHR320 Horiba JobinYvon Spectrometer - Lock-in amplifier, chopper, signal generators, Agilent oscilloscope, mounts and optical benches for bulk glass and optical fibre handling and positioning |
Davide Janner |
| Prism coupling | Metricon 2010 prism coupling method with measuring wavelengths of 633, 800, 1060, 1320 and 1533 nm | Davide Janner |
| Mass Spectrometry | - ICP - MS (ICAP Q ICP-MS) (*) | Sara Ferraris |
| Vacuum induction melting | - NEUTRODYN EASYTI, EGMA 10 FELMI - Induction casting machine up to 2000° C in inert atmosphere |
Valentina Casalegno |
| Shear strength tests | Torsion, lap-sher tests | Monica Ferraris |
| Low temperature ovens | BINDER, HERAEUS | Stefano De la Pierre |
| Sonic cleaning | BICASA | Marta Miola |
| Milling, mixing and sieving equipment | GIULIANI, ECOSCIENTIFICA, ASAL FRITSCH planetary mono mill (Pulverisette 0,
Pulverisette 2, Pulverisette 6 classic line) - Automatic Siever Octagon 200 |
Francesco Baino |
| Precision balances | OHAUS, ADAM Equipment, ORMA BCA 510s | Sara Ferraris |
| Cold Press | Autopress t-40 GRASEBY SPECAC, Autopress P400ir CAGIMBRA SAS | Sergio Pereiro |
| Electrokinetic Analyzer - Zeta Potential of bulk Solid Samples |
SurPASS - Anton PAAR Zeta potential determination based on the measurement of streaming potential and streaming current |
Silvia Spriano Sara Ferraris |
| Surface area of materials |
BET Instrument for the assessment of the specific surface area of materials though gas adsorption-desorption* |
Enrica Vernè Francesco Baino |
| UV-Lamps |
- Dynamic UV-LAMP (fusion) - Static UV-LAMP (Dymax) - UV-LAMP With optical fiber |
Marco Sangermano |
| Facilities for antibacterial test (non-pathogen microorganism) |
- Incubator ICN 35 Plus (Argo Lab) - Refrigerator MediLine (Liebherr) - Bacterial Bioaerosol generator ATM 220 (TOPAS) - McFarland Densitometer DEN 1 Biosan - Autoclave Steristeam 2 (Savatec Strumenti Scientifici) |
Cristina Balagna |
* Department equipment available to the group
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e-mail contacts:
Sara Ferraris: monica.ferraris@polito.it
Valentina Casalegno:valentina.casalegno@polito.it
Sergio Perero:sergio.perero@polito.it
Milena Salvo:milena.salvo@polito.it
Federico Smeacetto:federico.smeacetto@polito.it
Silvia Spriano:silvia.spriano@polito.it
Enrica Vernè:enrica.verne@polito.it
Francesco Baino: francesco.baino@polito.it
Marta Miola:marta.miola@polito.it
Sara Ferraris: sara.ferraris@polito.it
Stefano De la Pierre: stefano.delapierre@polito.it
Fabiana D’Isanto:fabiana.disanto@polito.it
Cristina Multari:cristina.multri@polito.it
Elham Sharifikolouei: elham.sharifikolouei@polito.it