Physics Facilities

Teaching Facilities

The Joule Physics Laboratories include a purpose-built suite of large, open-space Teaching Laboratories that opened in May 2005.

Physics student facilities also include:

• Main Joule Physics Teaching Laboratory
• Secondary Joule Physics Teaching Laboratory
• Student Laboratory Workroom
  
• Electronics Laboratory
• Optics Laboratory
• Laser Laboratory
• Physics Computing Laboratory
• School Project Laboratory
• High-Performance Computing & 3D Visualisation Facilities

Research Facilities

Physics students frequently use a range of the available Research facilities, including:

• Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM, JSM640)
• Thin film Deposition Facilities
• Sophisticated Computing and Visualisation equipment, and
• Full Vacuum Training Facilities (sponsored by MKS, VARIAN, Oelekon, etc)
• The Salford University Microscopy Centre
• 8 Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) systems
• X-Ray Diffractometers (Siemens D5000, D500 and P4 Single Crystal)
• Thin Film Deposition Facilities
• Multinuclear 400MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Machine
• High Resolution Mass Spectrometers
• Van de Graaff Linear Accelerator with Rutherford Back Scattering equipment
• Liquid Scintillation and Gamma Ray Spectrometers
• Sub-nanometer Resolution Optical Spectrometer
• High Temperature Pyrolysis Rig (with inert gas transfer to glove box)
• Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometer (for fast composition depth profiling)
• Optical Scatter (that is wavelength and angular selective)
• IR spectrometer (Bruker vector 22)
• UV/visible spectrophotometer (Aquila instruments, nkd8000)
  
• Hall Effect Measurement capability
• Artificial Sun
• LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometers)
• Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM, JEOL 3010, with in situ ion beam bombardment for radiation damage studies)
• Atomic/Magnetic Force Microscope
• Dektak surface profiler
  
• Focused Ion Beam Microscope
• Femto-second Laser System (being commissioned)
• Excimer Laser
• Neodymium-YAG Lasers
• Intelligent Gravimetric Analysers (with Dynamic Sampling Mass Spectrometry)
• High-Current, Low-Energy Ion Implanter
• Rapid Thermal Annealing
• Mossbauer Spectrometers (Fe and Sn)
• A range of further Optical Spectrometers
• Radio-Frequency Growth Furnace
• Argon Glove Box, and an
• Argon Arc Furnace