Equipment & Facilities

Center For Nanostructure Characterization & Fabrication

The Center for Nanostructure Characterization in the School of Materials Science and Engineering is a multi-user facility.

Its mission is to provide the Georgia Tech campus with imaging and characterization tools for performing advanced research on a variety of nanoscale materials.

Chemical Vapor Deposition Capabilities At GTRI

Extensive equipment and capabilities and expertise exists for the deposition of ceramic, metallic, and diamond coatings by chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

Composites Manufacturing & Research Lab

The Composites Manufacturing and Research Laboratory is part of the Composites Education and Research Center (CERC).

Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking Laboratory

Corrosion Science and Engineering research includes understanding the basic mechanisms involved in material degradation in given environments and using that knowledge to develop a mitigation strategy against environment-induced failures.

Electrical Properties of Materials and Devices

Most of the research in this area is being carried out within this facility although some research requires the use of metallography labs at MSE, the cleanroom facilities of the Microelectronics Research Center as well as National Facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Labs and others.

GTRI Materials Analysis Center

The Materials Analysis Center (MAC) is part of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). The lab is located on the second floor of the Baker building and occupies 3,100 square feet of space which is used for chemical and materials processing and analytical/materials testing.

High-Strain-Rate Gas-Gun Laboratory

The Georgia Tech gas gun is equipped with interferometric, stress-gauge measurement, and high-speed digital data acquisition instrumentation, permitting material testing at strain rates up to 106 s^-1, under a range of multiaxial states of stress through normal and pressure-shear (inclined) plate impact experiments.

Materials Processing Laboratory

Capabilities include Powder Processing Apparatus (characterization of powders and slurries in support of hollow sphere development), Hollow Sphere Fabrication (fabricating hollow spheres from slurries), Melting and Solidification Laboratory, Impedance Spectroscopy and Electrochemical Analysis and Testing Facilities, and Corrosion Testing (Two electrochemical corrosion testing systems).

Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory

The MPRL is an interdisciplinary College of Engineering laboratory which supports education and research programs related to process-structure-property relations in structural materials.

Microelectronics Research Facilities

Microstructural Characterization Facility

Image Analysis Laboratory
This laboratory facility includes both automatic and semi-automatic image analysis instrumentation.

X-Ray Diffraction Characterization Facilty
The MSE X-Ray Diffraction Characterization Facility, located on the ground floor of the IPST building (room 135) houses three state of the art PANalytical X-Pert Pro x-ray diffractometers in it’s spacious laboratory.

Nanoindentation Laboratory

Nanoindentation tester is used to investigate mechanical properties of materials by indenting the test material with a diamond tip to depths of 100 to 1000 nano-meters while measuring the force-displacement response. This tool is being used to study the relationship between microstructure and strength and toughness of materials.

Packaging Research Center

The Georgia Tech 3D Systems Packaging Research Center is unique in three ways. It goes beyond the traditional exploratory research by faculty and graduate students to an integrated and system level approach with particular focus on: 1) leading-edge electronic and bio-electronic systems research, 2) cross-discipline education of students, and 3) industry collaborations with more than 70 companies from the U.S., Europe and Asia all in one transformative systems technology called System-On-Package, pioneered by the Center.

Phosphor Technology Center of Excellence

The PTCOE phosphor characterization facility currently has two high vacuum systems available for cathodoluminescence (CL) characterization of phosphor powders, screens, and thin films. A third system is also being developed to test phosphor screens using field emission cathodes. The facility employs two 0-5 kV electron guns, and one 1-30 kV gun.

Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute

Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (RPM) is an emerging collection of materials and process technologies, design and processing methodologies, and business practices and relationships, which together shorten product development cycles.

Structures and Materials Laboratory

The Structures and Materials Laboratory in the School of Aero Engineering consists of a number of separate facilities that are spread over several labs with a total floor space of almost 5000 sq. ft. An extensive range of equipment for investigating problems of stress and strain distribution in a variety of materials and under many environments is available.

Thin Films And Surface Characterization

By studying organic-inorganic interfaces, we investigate the chemical and physical properties of intricate composites.

X-Ray Diffraction Characterization Facility

The MSE X-Ray Diffraction Characterization Facility, located on the ground floor of the IPST building (room 135) houses three state of the art PANalytical X-Pert Pro x-ray diffractometers in it’s spacious laboratory. From phase identification to crystal structure analysis to high resolution rocking curve measurements, the X-Ray Diffraction Characterization Facility is a great solution for your research needs.

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