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).
- 3He4- 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
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- Various Special Collections held at the Academy Library