Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility, CIL and UCIM

Infrastructural Facilities

 

Laboratories

• Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
• Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
• Cold Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope ()
• Electron Microscope (SEM/TEM)
• FT NMR Spectrometer (400 MHz)
• FT NMR Spectrometer (500 MHz)
• FTIR Spectrophotometer
• UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
• Elemental Analyser
• X-Ray Diffractometer (Powder Method)
• Liquid Nitrogen Plant
• Photographic Facility
• WD-XRF Spectrometer
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
• Rotational Rheometer
• High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope
• Confocal Microscopy Imaging
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
• Ultra Microtome
• Critical Point Dryer
• RFDC
• ICP-MS
• Maldi Synapt XS HD Mass Spectrometer
• TGA
• DSC

Workshops

• Mechanical Workshop Machine Shop
• Electronics Workshop
• Wood Workshop
• Glass-Blowing Workshop

How to use the Facility

Requisition forms for availing any facility available at the Centre can be obtained by writing to the Director, SAIF, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Details regarding requirements of experimental conditions should be given in the request form. The forms must be duly signed by the Head of department/institution with seal. In experiments where user's presence is required, prior appointment for analysis/studying samples should be sought.

The payment must be made in advance through bank draft payable to the Director, SAIF, Chandigarh - 160 014.

Due acknowledgment should be made to the Centre in all the publications/ theses/ reports emanating from the work done with the help of the Centre. A copy of the reprints of articles published in journals should be sent to the Centre for information and record.

• Contact Persons
• Forms for the various services
• Training Programmes