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Shamberger Lab

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Tools

Materials preparation & synthesis

Inert argon environment glovebox

Dry box with vacuum pump for sensitive sample storage

Vacuum sealed annealing chamber

Torch set up for vacuum sealing quartz tubes

Tube furnace with two channel gas mixer

PM 200 Planetary ball mill

SP-150 potentiostat for electrochemical deposition and measurement

Materials characterization

Four-probe set-up for electrical characterization.

Nanosurf AFM/MFM

Olympus BX-53 polarized light microscope with bright/dark field capabilities and differential interference contrast

Linkam LTS120 Peltier temperature stage with probe tips. Range of -25°C to 120°C

Bruker D8 X-Ray Diffraction.

  • Third generation Gobel mirror for highest x-ray flux density.
  • Three different collimators for varying intensities.
  • Centric Eulerian Cradle for texture
  • Rietveld Refinement analysis

Quantum Design MPMS SQUID Magnetometer

  • Multiple measurement modes (DC, VSM and AC Susceptibility)
  • Temperature Range: 1.8 – 400 K
  • < 1×10-8 emu (⩽2500 Oe) and < 8×10-8 emu (>2500 Oe) sensitivity

TA Q2000 DSC

 

External facilities

AggieFab Nanofabrication Facility
Materials Characterization Facility
TAMU X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory
TAMU High Performance Research Computing

TAMU Materials Development and Characterization center

 

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Latest News

  • Julia Billman (UG) presents at student research week March 22, 2019
  • PHATE research group attends TMS, San Antonio TX March 15, 2019
  • Heidi Clarke successfully defends PhD dissertation March 7, 2019
  • On the search for outstanding graduate students! November 12, 2018
  • Congrats to Heidi Clarke & Tim Brown on passing preliminary exams! November 12, 2018

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