UG Lab (equipped to handle 65 independent experiments at a time)
- Ultrasonic Interferometers
- Young’s modulus of beams -by uniform bending
- Young’s modulus of beams by non-uniform bending
- Torsion Pendulum apparatus
- Viscosity measurement set-up using Poiseillus method
- Lees Disc apparatus
- Thermo Emf measurement system–Potentiometer based
- Carey-Foster’s Bridge
- Melde’s String apparatus
- Optical Fiber –NA measurement system
- Biot-Savart law apparatus
- Air- Wedge Experimental set-up
- Bandgap determination set-up
- Spectrometers
- Travelling Microscopes
- Laser diodes (650 nm)
- Gratings, Prisms, Lenses
- Mercury vapor lamps
- Sodium Vapor lamps
- Vernier Calipers (Manual)
- Vernier Caliper (Digital)
- Screw Gauges (Manual)
- Screw gauge (Digital)
- Racer timers
- Electronic balance
Crystal Growth Lab (In-Charge Dr.P.Rajesh)
- Solution Growth facilities : (Funded by DAE-BRNS & CSIR)
- Constant Temperature water bath with cryostat facility (2 Nos) (Subzero)
- Constant Temperature water bath – ambient to 90 Deg. (5 Nos) (Subzero)
- Condenser (Glass -for Refluxing)
- Vacuum desiccators
- Digital weighing balance (Accuracy 0.01g) (BRNS)
- Digital weighing balance (Accuracy 0.001g) (CSIR)
- Melt growth facilities (Funded by SERB)
- Bridgeman facility (for synthesis and Growth)
- Czochralski facility
- SouthBay Crystal Cutting Machine (Low speed Diamond Wheel Cutter) (BRNS)
Optical Research & Networks Lab (In-Charge Dr. Prita Nair)
- Yokagawa Optical Spectrum Analyser(600-1700nm) (SSN Trust)
- Newport Manual Grating Monochromator (Grating optimized for 1500-1600nm )
- Thor Labs Broadband Fiber coupled Laser source (1490-1650nm)
- Thor labs-Fiber coupled Tunable Laser source (1530nm-1650nm) (AICTE funding)
- LiNb external modulator (Thor Labs)
- Optical breadboards and Michelson Interferometer set-up (SSN Trust)
- Laser diode (530nm)
- 3 axis nanopositioner (Thor Labs)
- Single mode fibers and solid core photonic crystal fibers
- Probe station with camera (DST Funding)
- SOI wafers, SiN targets
- Microlens for fiber-to-chip coupling
- Multi-beam laser interference set-up
Device prototypes fabricated:
- Fixed Si-Air PBG optical filters
- Electrostatically tuned MEMS-based Optical Add drop filters
- Electrostatically tuned MEMS-based Mini Optical Spectrum Analyser
- Electrothermal actuators
- Si waveguide with Si-EO PBG resonator & Glass –EO PBG based tunable optical filters
- PCF based optical sensors
SSN National MEMS Design Centre (SSN-NMDC) (In-Charges Dr. Prita Nair, Physics & Dr. Sreeja B.S, ECE)
- Intellisense MEMS Sofware Suite – 2 licenses (AICTE & MHRD-NPMASS funding)
- COMSOL Multiphysics – 30 user licenses (MHRD-NPMASS funding)
- L-Edit -1 license (MHRD-NPMASS funding)
- Coventorware -1 license (MHRD-NPMASS funding)
- Programmable microprocessor with add-on MEMs navigation and pressure sensor board (SSN-Trust)
Si Device Prototypes fabricated:
- Fixed Si-Air PBG filters
- Electrostatically tuned MEMS-based Optical Add drop filters
- Electrostatically tuned MEMS-based Mini Optical Spectrum Analyser
- Electrothermal actuators
- Electrothermal Actuator based Dual and Quad RF-MEMS switch
Functional Materials Lab (In-Charge Dr. Julie Charles & S. Singaravadivelu)
- Tubular furnace
- Ultrasonicator
- Magnetic Stirrer with Hot Plate
- Magnetic Stirrer without Hot Plate
- Vacuum oven with the vacuum pump
- Muffle furnace
- Hot air oven
- Centrifuge machine
- Digital weighing balance
- Vacuum desiccators
- Mini-Fridge
- The experimental setup for the unidirectional growth method of Sankaranarayanan-Ramasamy
Sonic & Ultrasonic Bandgap and Metamaterials Lab (In-Charge Dr. Prita Nair)
- Ultrasonic Pulser-Receiver (JSR make) (NRB Funding)
- Broadband transducers (40kHz-150kHz) (NRB Funding)
- Hydrophones (for use upto 200km underwater) (NRB Funding)
- Needle Hydrophones (NRB Funding)
- Tektronix Storage Oscilloscope (NRB Funding)
- Sonic amplifiers
- Helmholtz resonator and membrane-based array-based single and dual negative metamaterials (Indigenous)
High-temperature Crystal Growth & Ceramics Lab (In-Charge Dr G. Anandha Babu)
- Molybdenum Disilicide heating modules (DRDO Funding)
- Tubular furnaces (DAE-BRNS Funding)
- Bridgman facility (DAE-BRNS Funding)
- Flux growth facility (DRDO Funding)
- Top-seeded solution growth facility (SERB Funding)
- Platinum crucibles (DRDO Funding)
- High Vacuum pumping system (DAE-BRNS Funding)
- LCR Meter Wayne Kerr (DRDO Funding)
- Hydraulic press (CSIR Funding)
Thin Film Lab (In-Charge Dr. Prita Nair)
- Fume Hood
- Programmable spin coater with a vacuum holder
- Dual heat-source programmable thermal chamber for growth of organic crystalline thin films
- Magnetic stirrers,
- Hot plate
- Electrochemical Wet Etching Set-up for Si Wafers
- SiN target
- Desiccators
- Mini-Fridge
Films developed:
- PEDOT-PSS conducting membranes
- PDMS films
- Electro-optic crystalline and multi-crystalline organic BNA films on glass & Si substrates/patterned surfaces
Luminescence Lab (In-Charge Dr. S.M.M. Kennedy)
- UV-Vis Spectrofluorometer with mini heater (up to 210 degree Celsius)
- Quantum efficiency measurement setup for powder phosphors
- Thermoluminescence Emission setup ( FACULTY INTERNAL PROJECT, SSN)
- UV-Vis Reflectance probe ( SSN FUNDING)
- Muffle furnace ( up to 1100 degree Celsius )
- Tubular furnace ( DST-SERB funding, up to 1300 degree Celsius )
Radiation research Facility (In-Charge Dr. Rajalakshmi A. & Dr. A. Chandrasekharan)
- Gamma Ray Spectrometer (BRNS finding)
- Microsurvey Meter (BRNS finding)
Ceramics Lab (Under CREST) (In-Charge Dr. N.P Rajesh)
- Atomic Emission Spectroscope -1
- P-E loop tracer
- Dielectric measurement facility
- Piezoelectric measurement facility
- Ball mill
- Tubular Furnace
- Hot plate
- Magnetic stirrers,
- Hydraulic press
Crystal Growth Lab (Under CREST) (In-Charges Dr. N.P. Rajesh)
- Czochralski Crystal Growth facility
- Bridgeman facility (low temperature and high temperature)
- Low temperature solution growth facility
- Water baths (amb. Temp to 96 deg)
- Water bath (4 deg to 96 deg)
- High Temperature solution growth facility
- Crystal puller with translation and rotation facility
- Platinum crucibles
Water analysis lab (Under CREST) (In-Charge Dr. N.P. Rajesh)
- Ion Chromatograph
- UV spectro photometer
- BOD incubator
- Water purifier (micro level)
- pH meter
- TDS meter
Meteorological Tower (Under CREST)(In-Charge Dr. N.P. Rajesh)
- Tower
- Data acquisition system
