Physics Facilities and Laboratories
Explore optics, lasers and materials. Our Joule Physics labs are a centre of discovery.
Our Joule Physics Laboratories features purpose-built suites of large, open-plan teaching space. This dedicated learning environment includes specialist areas and equipment for electronics, optics, lasers, computing, and materials synthesis and characterisation.
Teaching Facilities
Salford has a wide-range of physics laboratories, each designed to fulfil specific activities. These 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
The Joule Physics laboratories include a purpose-built suite of large, open-space teaching laboratories.
Research Facilities
Salford has a range of purpose-built facilities and equipment for physics students conducting Masters or doctoral research. These include
- 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