Hands on experience

Acquainted with:

1. Thin film deposition using RF magnetron sputtering system.

2. Electrochemical oxidation (galvanostatic and potentiostatic mode), Battery Test Equipment – Arbin systems

3. Neutron and Synchrotron Powder Diffraction – Nuclear and Magnetic structures. Instruments used - D1B, D20, ID31 at ILL, France; 3T2, G41 at LLB, France; HRPT, MS-X04SA at PSI.

4. MPMS (SQUID) and PPMS system from Quantum Design, USA

Four probe resistivity, Magnetization (AC and DC mode) Measurements using Vibrating Sample Magnetometer/SQUID, Heat capacity, Hall measurements.

5. X-ray diffraction

Ø PANalytical (Xpert³, Xpert Pro, Empyrean)

Ø Discover D8-Bruker

Ø Rigaku Japan (Smartlab and Miniflux 99)

6. UV, IR, PL (Perkin Elmer and Varian Associated Cary 500 double beam spectrophotometer) characterizing machines.

7. FESEM- NOVA NANO600- FEI, Netherlands.

8. X-ray Photo Electron Spectroscopy (Physical Electronics PHI 5800 ESCA System and Thermo-VG Scientific ESCALAB 220 iXL spectrometer)

9. EPMA (Electron Probe Micro Analyzer)

Relevant skills:

Data Treatment and Analysis: Origin, FULLPROF Suite, High Score Plus, Crystal Maker, XPS Peak

Programming Languages: C, C#, COBOL, FORTRON, Perl, Minitab