Physics Research Facilities
The core of Physics undergraduate teaching is within the first and second floors of the Newton building in Salford University's Peel Campus. Physics Research Facilities, which are also available for use in student project work, reside in the Newton Building and in the adjacent Maxwell and Cockcroft Buildings (see map).
Newton Building Facilities include:
- Scanning Electron Microscope (JSM640)
- Thin film Deposition Facilities
- Sophisticated Computing and Visualisation equipment, and
- Full Vacuum Training Facilities (sponsored by MKS, VARIAN, Oelekon, etc)
Cockcroft Building Facilities include:
- The Salford University Microscopy Centre
- 12 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)
- Hall Effect Measurement capability
Maxwell Building Facilities include:
- Artificial Sun
- LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometers)
- Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM, JEOL 3010, with in situ ion beam bombardment for radiation damage studies)
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM, JSM640)
- Atomic/Magnetic Force Microscope
- Focused Ion Beam Microscope
- Femto-second Laser System (being commissioned)
- Excimer Laser
- Neodymium-YAG Lasers
- Intelligent Gravimetric Analysers (with Dynamic Sampling Mass Spectrometry)
- Thin Film Deposition Facilities
- 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
As well as usage in Internationally-Excellent Academic Research Programmes, many of our facilities are also employed in Enterprise and our Engagement with Employers.
