Short description
This project will establish a new infrastructure at ESI in the form of a Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS). The PPMS will enable comprehensive characterization of functional properties of advanced materials synthesized at the institute, including bulk metallic glasses, multilayer thin films, 3D-printed materials, and bulk magnetic nanocomposites.
Objectives
The main objective of the project is to create a novel infrastructure at ESI for the measurement and characterization of functional material properties.
Specific objectives include:
- Expanding ESI’s existing capabilities beyond mechanical characterization to include advanced physical and functional property measurements.
- Enabling the investigation of magnetic, electrical, thermal, and thermoelectric properties of materials synthesized at the institute.
- Providing measurement capabilities for a wide range of innovative functional materials, including thin films, bulk materials, nanocomposites, and 3D-printed materials.
- Creating a unique center for advanced physical characterization of innovative functional materials in Austria.
Outcomes
The project will result in the installation and operation of a versatile PPMS infrastructure at ESI.
Expected outcomes include:
- Availability of a state-of-the-art automated system for measuring material properties such as: specific heat, magnetic AC and DC susceptibility, electrical transport properties, thermal transport properties, Hall effect, Seebeck effect, thermoelectric figure of merit.
- Implementation of a PPMS equipped with a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM).
- Capability to perform various magnetic measurements, including: magnetization as a function of time or temperature, isothermal remanent magnetization, rotational hysteresis measurements, anisotropy measurements.
- Measurement conditions covering magnetic fields up to ±9 T and a temperature range from 2 K to 400 K.
- The ability to characterize material properties over the full temperature and magnetic field range provided by the PPMS.
- Establishment of an advanced physical characterization capability that is currently not available in Austria and is rare worldwide.
