• Large metallography laboratory with equipment for sampling, preparation and different etching methods
  • Several reflected-light microscope (upright and inverted), macrophotography
  • Micro hardness tester QATM Evo 60+ for Vickers and Knoop hardness testing
  • Heat treatment laboratory with furnaces and quenching system
  • Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) Tescan Vega3, LEO 1530 VP and Zeiss Gemini 460 VP – each with BSE, EDX and EBSD detectors; Vega3 with Point Diss topography system
  • Focused Ion Beam (FIB) FEI Quanta 3D FEG (Dual Beam) with cryo option
  • Analytical transmission electron microscope (TEM) JEOL 2200 FS
  • Electron beam microprobes analyser Jeol JXA-8900-RL
  • Individually adaptable corrosion setup for ageing at high temperatures, high pressures and different media
  • Experimental setup for 3D metallography
  • Physical measuring techniques such as roughness measurement, pycnometry and weighing

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