Planetary ball mill
For nano particle preparation.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Vacuum Annealing Furnace (Funded by DST-SERB)
For high temperature (up to 900 degree C) sintering in vacuum of various samples.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Glass Blowing and sample Sealing set up
For vacuum annealing and single crystal ampule preparation.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Tri-arc furnace
For transition metal alloy preparation.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Box Furnace
For high temperature (up to 1600 degree C) sintering of various samples.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Tube furnace (Funded by CSIR)
For high temperature (up to 1400 degree C) sintering of various samples
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
15 Tesla Cryogen free system (Funded by DST)
For magnetic and electrical property measurement.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
X-Ray powder diffractometer
For structural characterization of powder and thin film samples.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Closed Cycle Refrigerator
Set-up for Electrical Conductivity, dielectric, pyroelectric, and P-E loop Measurement.
Contact person: Dr. Souvik Chatterjee & Dr. Rajib Mondal
Indian National Gamma Array at VECC
Indian Nationa Gamma Array(INGA) setup at VECC comprises of Clover detectors, Low Energy Photon detectors and arrays CeBr scintillators.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi
Digital Signal Processing and Data Acquisition System for INGA@VECC
The DAQ system is configured using 250 MHz modules to accept Compton suppressed user-determined gamma multiplicity coincidence events.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi.
Low Background Counting Facility
A low background Counting Facility has been deevloped to facilitate detection of Normally Ocurring Radioactive Materials in environmental samples.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi.
Scintillator Detectors for Fast Timing Measurements
Setup for Fast Timing Measurements are being developed using fast scintillators
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi.
DSP Based Stand alone Data Acquisition System
Stand alone DSP based Data Acquisition Systems with firmwares optimized for energy and timimg measurements available.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi.
Advanced Laboratorty for Nuclear Detection Systems
Hands-on training is imparted to students / reserach scholars on the nuances of Radiation Detectors and the associated Pulse Processing Techniques.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut & Dr. Soumen Nandi.
Framework for analysis of gamma-gamma coincidence data
In-house developed codes IUCPIX and SPRINGZ facilitate the analysis of the coincidence data sets acquired using in using PIXIE and LAMPS Data Acquisition Setups.
Contact person: Dr. Rajarshi Raut.
Optical Spectroscopy
The inverted fluorescence microscope enables high-resolution visualization of live and fixed cells under physiologically relevant conditions. Inverted design allows easy imaging of samples in culture dishes, flasks. The fluorescence capability permits the detection and tracking of specific biomolecules, organelles, and signaling pathways using fluorescent dyes or genetically encoded markers.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
UV/Vis spectrophotometer
UV/Vis spectrophotometer provides both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis technique is used to perform quality control checks whereas quantitative method, provides the concentration of DNA, RNA proteins, carbohydrates, or organic compounds, metabolite end product.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
Gel-doc system
System is equipped with UV trans-illuminator CCD camera and associated image analysis software.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
Cell Culture : Biosafety Cabinet
The Biosafety Cabinet is used to maintain the sterile environment for the cell culture.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
Cell Culture : CO2 Incubator
The CO2 incubator is used to maintain the ideal temperature, humidity and CO2 percentage to promote in vitro growth of animal cells.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
Cell Culture : Inverted Bright Field Microscope
Microscope is used for the visualization of the animal cells and their cellular morphology under different experimental conditions.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Ghosh and Dr. Ujaal Das.
UV/Vis/NIR spectrometer
The UV/Vis/NIR spectrometers operate in the UV/Vis and the NIR region (175-3300 nm.) Both liquid and thin film samples can be measured.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Pramanik.
Photo-Luminescence Spectrometer
Temperature dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy (5o-90oC) can be performed. Front surface accessory for thin films and solid samples are available.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Pramanik.
Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting Facility
Photoluminescence lifetime measurements (25 ps to 1 s) possible using interchangeable solid state LEDs (279, 286 nm), and laser diode (373, 532 nm). Steady state spectra (200 - 1500 nm) can be acquired. Facility for Optical anisotropy & time resolved emission spectra (TRES) measurement.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Pramanik.
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer Facility
Measurements can be done in both transmission and attenuated total reflectance (ATR) mode. Both solid and liquid samples can be measured.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Pramanik.
Electro-Chemical Workstation
Specifications: Max Current: ±1 A; Current Accuracy: 1 nA; Voltage Scan Range: ±10 V; Channels Per Unit: 1.
Contact person: Dr. Gautam Pramanik.
Workshops & Training
User programmes, workshops and collaborative meetings.