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