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Properties

•  Mechanical properties 
  • Monsanto T2000 tensometer with workstation and  variable temperature facilities 
  • 20N microscale mechanical testing facility with variable temperature stage, data station and optical microscope stage
  • Computer controlled high speed, high temperature deformation Facility with in-situ recording
  • Tensiometers for in-situ deformation coupled with x-rays, neutrons, microscopy and raman scattering
  • Channel die deformation
  • Biaxial deformation stage
  • Bubble inflation stage
• Rheological
  • Extensional rheology
  • Shear flow rheology
• Optical
  •  Non-Linear optical laboratory equipped with 10ns 1.2J ND-YAG pulsed laser system with high speed signal processing equipment 
  • In-situ poling facilities including photo-induced poling 
  • Degenerate and non-degenerate four-wave mixing facility with Ar ion, Hene, Cd, and laser diode systems
  • Two-beam coupling system for photorefractive materials 
  • Prism coupling system for evaluating linear electro-optic effects in non-linear Waveguides 
  • Time-resolving measurement of dichroism and birefringence
  • Computer controlled system for electro-optic characterisation of liquid crystal systems with variable field source and thermal stage 
  • Interferometry and refractive index measurement 
  • Electromagnet with hot stage and in-situ birefringence and dichrosim facilities 
• Electrical Properties
  • Electrical conductivity with temperature stage 
  • High Voltage (0-30kV) AC & DC facility for sample poling and dielectric breakdown and electrical discharge studies

   

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