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Contact information:
Facility Manager: Truls Norby
Location: OSLO
Norway
Instruments:
- LaserFlash instrument NETZSCH LFA457, 300-1000ºC, N2 flow
- Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistance: home-built apparatus, 300-700ºC, 10-5mbar vacuum
Solid-state electrochemistry laboratory
- 6 impedance spectrometers (2x Solartron 1260, 2x Novocontrol Alpha, 2x HP 4192A)
- 3 potentiostats (solartron 1287, EG&G 273, Parstat) + some older manual models
- 3 High-impedance voltmeters (2x HP 34401, 1x Solartron 7150+), + 2 older Keithley 614 electrometers
- 15 ProboStat sample holder/measurement cells (NorECs AS) equipped for 2, 3, 4-electrode disk or bar setups for impedance spectrocopy, van der Pauw setup, Seebeck coefficients, transport number studies, fuel cell measurements, and membrane flux measurements
- 15 Furnaces (spiral elements 1300 °C and 1600 °C (SiC) types, power supplies, thyristors, and controllers (mostly Eurotherm 2216e)
- 10 Gas mixers of varying complexity, mostly based on rotameter based (Brooks ShoRate 1355), some mass-flow-controlled
- 1 simple mass flowmeter-based mixer/humidifier/pressure control for SOFC button cell testing, type FCMix (NorECs AS).
- 3 Computer-controlled multiplexer stations for routing several cells to impedance spectrometer or voltmeter + van der Pauw switching
- 3 Computers collecting all data, running custom "IS" software on HP series 300 measurement coprocessors
- Gas chromatograph and quadropole mass spectrometer for gas analyses
Description of services:
- Determine thermal diffusivity/conductivity
- Facilities for sample preparation: A multitude of possibilities including grinding, cutting, thinning.
- Determine the Seebeck coeffisient and electrical resistance
- Impedance spectrocopy
- Fuel cell measurements
- Membrane flux measurements
- Van der Pauw setup
- Gas chromatography and gas analyses
About the electrochemistry lab
The electrochemistry laboratory can be found in Forskningsparken (MiNaLab and Forskningsparken).