Sophisticated Central Instrumentation Facility (SCIF) — IIT Dharwad

The facility will be useful in structure determination, quantification, and in the analysis of purity of chemical compounds. The instrument can record 1D- and 2D-1H, 13C and many more heteronuclear (19F, 31P, 14N, 11B, etc.) spectra. It is capable of characterizing both in solution and solid state samples.

Model No: Jeol:400 MHz NMR spectrometer

The instrument is useful in studying the absorption characteristics of organic/inorganic compounds which absorbs in UV, visible and Infra-red region of the spectrum. It can also assist in identification and determination of the concentration of the unknown compounds. The equipment is also capable of characterizing solution, thin-film, powder state samples.

Model: Cary 5000

The 100 kN capacity UTM can be employed to conduct tests including fJ1C tests by introducing fatigue-crack, low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue, tensile (flat and round specimens), compression and flexural tests. The 25 kN capacity UTM can be employed to conduct tests including monotonic axial and torsional loadings, Dynamic axial and torsional loading test, a combination of axial and torsional loadings which are in- and out-of-phase. The specimens include flat, round and tubular specimens.

Model No(s): BISS: 100 kN and 25 kN/250 Nm (ATTS)

The HPC facility consists of 31 nodes with all CPU cores. The system is connected to the Intel Omnipath infiniband and has 100 TB storage with a parallel file system. The compute nodes have 20 cores per socket and 2 sockets per node and with the following basic info. 1 Master node: (40 cores, 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6146 processor; with 384 GB RAM) 31 Compute nodes: (40 cores each, 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6146 processor; with 192 GB RAM/node). The total theoretical TeraFlops for this cluster are 90TF. The machines are of Fujitsu make and are housed in the smart-rack with precision cooling. The DGX box of nVIDIA for AI/ML kind of workloads is also integrated into the smart rack.

It is a rapid, non-destructive analytical technique and an indispensable tool in material science, chemistry, geology, and pharmaceuticals used for characterizing crystalline materials and gaining insights into their structure and properties. When a crystalline sample is exposed to an X-ray beam of known wavelength, a unique diffraction pattern is generated. If the material has more than one material or phase, then the diffraction patterns for each material are overlapped. By the identification of each pattern within the diffractogram, individual materials or phases can be identified and quantified.
From the interpretation of the observed diffraction patterns using PXRD technique, we will be able to:

• Identify the crystalline phases present in the given material
• Measure crystallite/crystal domain size within discrete crystalline phases
• Calculate unit cell dimensions through pattern indexing
• Phase quantify using standard methods such as simple profile fitting, LeBail, Pawley or Rietveld refinements.

Model: Malvern Empyrean Series 3

SPS6 Manual DC/RF Probe Station is Wafer-level electrical measurements of electronic devices and samples. The sample chuck temperature variation is from room temperature to 300 °C.

Model: SPS6 Manual DC/RF Probe Station

The FESEM along with Oxford Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS) is a sophisticated electron microscope that is used to study the morphology, topography and composition of nanomaterials and nanostructures. This microscope is capable of characterizing conducting, semiconducting and non-conducting samples including polymers. The facility also has the metal sputter coater to aid in the characterization of insulating samples.

Model: Gemini 300 with Oxford EDS

The metal 3D printer based on the powder bed fusion technology is used primarily to manufacture the customized aerospace, medical and automotive components. Metal 3D printer works on the layer-by-layer material build-up approach. This toolless manufacturing method can produce fully dense metallic parts in short time with high precision.

In Powder bed fusion technology each powder bed layer is selectively fused by using energy source, like laser, is the most promising additive manufacturing technology that can be used for manufacturing small, low volume, complex metallic parts.