Central Facilities
Major facilities established in the University are available for all students & faculty from SASTRA as well as from other institutions. The following are partial list of equipment available on campus for research:
- Field emission transmission electron microscope with energy dispersive spectrometer (FE-TEM)
- Computer Numerically Controlled turning centres and machining centres (production capacity machines)
- X–ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS)
- Field emission scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectrometer (FE-SEM)
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer with laser ablation (ICP-MS)
- Liquid chromatograph coupled with tandem mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR)
- X–ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF)
- 11 TF High Performance Computing System (HPC)
- Confocal microscope
- High–through put microscope
- Automated liquid handling system
- Networking using fiber optic cables
- Gas chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometer
- Spectrophotometers (Multi mode reader, FTIR, UV–vis NIR, spectrofluorimeter, Nanodrop)
- Schrodinger software
- Scanning electrochemical microscope
- Physical vapour deposition units – 4
- Image processing workstation
- High performance clusters
- X–ray diffractometer
- Electrochemical workstations – 4
- VLSI design laboratory
- Refrigerated centrifuges – 10 nos
- Total survey stations – 8 nos
- Particle size analyzer – 2 nos
- Atomic force microscope
- Coordinate measuring machine & contour measuring machine
- 25 dedicated work stations and high end server with packages and compilers: ADAMS, ANSYS 12, NISA, CATIA, SolidCAM, EDGECAM, ALECOP, AutoCAD, DesignCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Mathcad, Axum 6.0, Lahey Developer
- Liquid Scintillation System
- Ultramicrotome
- Zetasizer
- High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
- Freeze dryer – 3 nos
- Surface area analyzer
- Preparative High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
- Real–time RT–PCR
- Ultracentrifuge
- High performance thin layer chromatograph
- UV–vis Spectrophotometer – 5 nos
- Advanced process control facility
- DSC–TGA
- Optical microscopes – 3
- Polygraph 16 Channel
- Phase contrast microscope
- Multiwave digestion system
- Computer Controlled Electric Drives
- Gamma Counter
- Embedded Systems Tools
- Uniaxial Mechanical Testing Machine
- Graphite furnace
- Isodynamic magnetic separator
- Mercury Porosimeter
- Differential geographical positioning system
- Microhardness testers – 2 nos
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Computer assisted Exhaust gas analyzer
- Atomic absorption spectrometer
- Ansys software
- Solar panel
- Variable compression ratio engine test rig and fuel injection pump calibration facility
- Radar and satellite link facility
- Atom processors innovation facility
- Hall measurement system
- High voltage laboratory
- Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory
- Computerized universal testing machine (1000 kN)
- Electrospinning
- Labview and multisim software
- Microbalance
- Photoluminescence spectrometer
- Computerised engine test rig
- Cell homogenizer
- Static cone penetration apparatus
- 2–D Electrophoresis
- Gas testing facility
- Image Processing Work Station with CCD Camera
- Olympus Polarized Research Microscope
- Goniometer
- Viscometers – 2 nos
- ASPEN Plus Steady–state Simulation Software
- Polarimeter
- Computerized Compression Testing Machine (3000 kN)
- Mobile robot with laser sensors
- Self Balancing Loading Frame with Data logger, load cells
- (1000 kN)
- Leica Reflection Research Microscope
- Affinity chromatography
- Precision Measuring Devices (Auto Collimator, Tool Maker’s Microscope, Profile Projector)
- EXTENDSIM (50 users license) and ADAMS multi–body dynamics software (50 users license)
- Wireless sensor nodes