Kalpakkam Node (KN) provides comprehensive characterization and synthesis facilities such as Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), Focused Ion-Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Glancing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD), 15T Magnetoresistance setup, Infrared float zone single crystal furnace, High Energy Ball Milling, Ball indentation, Small punch creep, NMR, SQUID Magnetometer, Raman spectrometer, e-Beam evaporation system, RF Sputter deposition system etc. Advanced computational facilities are also available. Apart from these, advanced physical, chemical and engineering facilities at IGCAR can also be used under Collaborative Research Scheme.
Thin films, Advanced functional materials, Polymers, nanomaterials etc.
Ion beam studies.