Facilities

UNSW Canberra has a wide range of research facilities that include:

• Several Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometers
• Materials preparation laboratory (argon arc furnaces, tube and muffle furnaces, basic glass-blowing facilities, spark- and diamond cutting tools, polishing machines, fume cupboards, drying cabinet, hydrogen loading apparatus).
• Materials characterisation facilities including (low temperature) X-ray diffractometers, a PPMS resistivity and DC and AC magnetometer (0-9T, 2-300 K), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) (0-1 T, 8-300 K), an AC magnetic susceptometer (2-300 K), optical microscopes and a tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM).
• ³He^4- He dilution refrigerator (base temperatures of 5 mK) used as low temperature platforms for: nuclear magnetic resonance on oriented nuclei (NMRON); low temperature nuclear orientation (LTNO); pulsed electron spin resonance (ESR); source and absorber geometry Mössbauer spectroscopy.
• Suite of Mössbauer spectrometers (three cryostats 2-300 K; furnaces 300-720 K, Doppler speeds up to 800 mm/s).
• Two perturbed angular correlation (PAC) spectrometers.
• Spectrometers employed for conventional, pulsed and electrically-detected electron spin resonance (ESR).
• Knee simulator laboratory for realistic tribological studies of knee prosthesis wear.
• Radioisotope implanter (negative ion, 50 - 150 keV).
• Radiochemistry and radioisotope handling laboratory.
• Ancillary items such as gamma ray detectors and water-cooled electromagnets.
• Helium liquefier.
• State of the art laser laboratory that is fully functional.
• Janis/Sumitomo SHI-4.5 closed-cycle refrigerator for optical work between 2.5 K and 300K.
• 5T optical cryomagnets
• 400MHz Varian Unityplus NMR spectrometer
• Shimadzu Prominence UFLC high pressure liquid chromatograph
• Shimadzu GCMS-QP2010 gas chromatograph mass spectrometer
• Shimadzu IRprestige-21 FTIR spectrometer with ATR capability
• Varian CARY50 Bio and Shimazdu UVmini1240 UV-vis spectrometers
• Horiba JobinYvon FluoroMax-3 Fluorometer
• Jasco J815 CD Circular dichroism spectrometer
• High-pressure modified 20 MHz Bruker NMR for self-diffusion measurements in fluids
• High-pressure falling-body viscometer
• T-ADFA free-piston shock tunnel

- rectangular section shock tube

- supersonic blowdown wind tunnel

- supersonic nozzle thrust vectoring rig

- subsonic low-turbulence wind tunnel

- quantum-optics laser labs

- various other laser labs

- Falcon telescope

- indoor Vicon-equipped UAV test range

- Cyber range

- high-load structural test rig

- Instron material testing machine

- Shimadzu material testing machine

- various high speed cameras

- anechoic chamber

- Split Hopkinson bar)

- 2-stage light gas gun - coming later this year

- thermal vacuum chamber with solar simulator

- atomic force microscape facility

• A significant collection of Defence and Strategic Studies and General Military History
• The AustLit Gateway is the premier resource discovery service for authoritative information on Australian Literature
• Various Special Collections held at the Academy Library