Laboratories and equipment

• Freeze-drying device (Christ)
• Spray-drying device (Buechi)
• High-temperature furnace (up to 1800 °C, Nabertherm)
• Cold isostatic press (up to 360 MPa, PO Weber)
• Electro-hydraulic cold uniaxial press (up to 1000 MPa, PO Weber)
• High vacuum apparatuses up to 10^-7 mbar (i.a. Ilmvac)
• Hydrothermal syntheses, high pressure syntheses (autoclaves up to 400 °C, 500 bar, Parr, Roth)
• Thermal high vacuum evapuration device (Pfeiffer)
• Glovebox (Saffron)
• Spincoater (Convac)
• Photochemical irradiation apparatuses, submersible lamps (Heraeus)
• Ball mills, grinding and polishing device
• Thermal material treatment, synthesis up to 1800 °C
• Rotary evapurator, conductometer, coulombmeter, pH-meter, drying ovens, centrifuges, ozoniser, ...

• UV-VIS spectroscopy 190-1100 nm (Ocean Optics)
• Reflection-, excitation-, and emission spectroscopy VUV-NIR (120-1100 nm, Acton, Edinburgh Instr., Shimadzu)
• Decay time measurement up to approx. 10 µs (Edinburgh Instr.)
• Light sources (Xe-lamps up to 450 W, UV lamps 254, 312, 366 nm, deuterium up to 20 W)
• diode laser 808 nm, 980 nm
• Photodegradation (Mueller Optik, Acton MM1 CCD, Nikon-Optik)
• FTIR spectroscopy (Perkin-Elmer)
• Microscopy with video recording (polarisation, incident light, transmitted light, Olympus, Nikon)
• Photoelectrochemical characterisation (Solartron): i.a. impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, polarization curves
• Polarimetry

• X-ray generator with powder diffractometer
• Calorimetry (Polytec)
• Particle size analytics 0.6 nm - mm (dynamic light scattering and laser diffraction, Malvern, Cilas, sieve analysis)
• Microscopy with video recording (polarisation, incident light, transmitted light, Olympus, Nikon)
• DTA and thermogravimetry (Netzsch)
• Mercury porosimetry (Pascal Instr.)
• Thickness measurement (Tencor Instr.)
• C,S-analyser (Eltra)

• Fiber optic sensor: Ocean Optics Neo Fox (phase fluorometry)
• Fiber optic spectrometer: Ocean Optics HDX
• Fluorescence lifetime Imaging system with temporal resolution in the µs region
• Absorption and fluorescence multimode reader Tecan Spark
• Fluorescence spectrometer with integrating sphere Perkin Elmer FL 8500
• Atomic force microscopy system AFM Nanosurf
• Optical pressure and temperature calibration system

• 5 vibration damped optical tables
• Spectral photometer PerkinElmer Lambda 1050 with numerous accessories
• Optical spectrum analyzer HP 70950 A
• Electrical spectrum analyzer HP, up to 22 GHz,  various modules
• Manual ball-wedge wirebonder, West Bond 5700 series
• Monochromator from Jobin Yvon
• Diode laser drivers
• Oscilloscopes from LeCroy and Tektronix
• Spatial light modulator from Holoeye Photonics AG
• Faraday rotator from Linos, 500 - 1000 nm
• Lasers: Nd:YAG 1064 nm, Nd:YVO₄ 1064 nm, MISER, HeNe, diode lasers

• High power lasers 0.1 - 2.5kW: excimer, Nd:YAG, fibre, CO₂, semiconductor, thulium
• Ultrashort pulse laser: Yb:YAG with 8 ps, 50W
• Lasers for measuring purposes: HeNe, argon-ion, semiconductor
• Multi-axis systems for positioning and relative motiong
• Laser safety cabins from 2 - 10 m³
• Beam profile analysis Thorlabs M²-Box / Coherent LaserCam-HR 2
• Wavefront sensor Thorlabs WFS-5C/M
• Power sensors for laser beams from nW to kW
• Spectrometer for UV / VIS / NIR, Ocean Optics HR 2000 und HR 2000+
• Oszilloscopes from Pico Technology and Tektronix
• Optical microscope 50-1000x, Olympus BX 60, and SZX 9
• Chromatic topography measurement Precitec CHRocodile ...
• SLA 3D-Print with cleaning and hardening modul, Formlabs Form 2

Photovoltaics

• Solar module flasher (class AAA) to measure the power of solar modules under standard test conditions (STC)
• Peak power measurement device, PV-Engineering PVPM-1000C for the characterisation of solar modules and complete solar strings
• Solar module simulators from PV-Engineering
• PV installation tester and characteristic linemeasuring device BENNING PV 2
• Outdoor reference solar cell RS-OD-3 of the Fraunhofer ISE-Institute

Fibre-optic measuring techniques

• Optical time domain reflectometer, Wavetek MTS-5200, Monomode- and multimode operation, wavelengths 850, 1300, 1550 nm
• Splicing device, Ericsson FSU-925 RTC, multimode- and monomode fibres, typical splice attenuation < 0.1 dB
• Optical spectrum analyser, HP-70951A, wavelength range 600 - 1700 nm, resolution 0.1 nm
• Spectrometer Ocean Optics, wavelength range 400 - 1100 nm
• 3-axis-micromanipulator, Melles Griot, resolution 0.1 µm
• Various laser diode drivers
• Various optical powermeters
• Parameter analyzer Agilent 4155B for the low-noise recording of current-/voltage curves of solar cells in all 4 quadrants

Sensor measuring techniques

• various sensors (distance, humidity, pressure, etc.)
• Measuring systems from National Instruments