Institution:

Year: Section:

IV. RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

IV.1. Top five research facilities, equipments/ instrumentation of your centre (research hardware):

Item 1

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Electron Microscopy Laboratory

Year of acquisition:

1998

Average value at the time of acquisition :

800000

Short Description:

1.1. Transmission Electron Mycroscop CM 120 produced by Philips and FEI, Eindhoven, Netherland, achieved in 1998. Essencial tehnical characteristics: 3 10-10m resolution, enlargement limit: 35-1.200.000, diffraction: 18-4300mm, with very high vacuum and crio-mycroscopy options. 1.2. CCD Gatan video camera for digital capture and software package for distance controle (PC connection) 1.3. Printer graphics Sony for screen shots 1.4. Classical taking photos device, a pack with 56 films 1.5. Equipement for negative and positive films and a photo lab

Item 2

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Plasma Deposition Laboratory

Year of acquisition:

2007.0000

Average value at the time of acquisition :

37000

Short Description:

1. Installation of thin film layers deposition on various materials 2. Turbomolecular pump for high vacuum, coupled with mechanical pump – 4500 E/1997 3. Vacuuum vessel for thin film deposition – 4000 E/2004 4. High voltage power supplies Glassman 5 KV -2 A– 2000 E /2008 5. Optical Multichannel Analyser (OMA) in the range of 190-1000 nm for spectral characterization Spectral products 1500 E/2007 6. Cressington Thickness Monitor for thickness measurement in-situ ranging between 100 nm-1000 nm of the deposited thin film- 2500 E/2007 7. FILMETRICS 20 based on spectral reflectance for thickness and the refractive index measurements – 10 000 E/2008

Item 3

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Spectroscopy Laboratory

Year of acquisition:

2003

Average value at the time of acquisition :

180000

Short Description:

1. Atomical absorbtion spectrometer Shimadzu, Japony, model AA6200 (unit for determination of the metals concentration, hydrus generator, achievement system, date processing and analysis on PC) 2. FTIR Brucker Spectrometer with a germanium passing window depositeded on KBr crystal; wavelength range 7800-350 cm –1 ; interface for computer conection) 3. UV-vis CAMSPEC M330 spectrometre (with a UV domain 1100-200nm; interface for computer conection) 4. Monochromator

Item 4

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Ultraacoustic Examination Laboratory

Year of acquisition:

2002

Average value at the time of acquisition :

65000

Short Description:

1. Homemade Ultrasonic Microscopy System (completely automated and high resolution) 2. Ultrasonic Testing Equipment ( Krautkrammer and Namicon )

Item 5

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Materials Characterization and Photovoltaic Device Fabrication and Testing Laboratory

Year of acquisition:

2006

Average value at the time of acquisition :

28000

Short Description:

1. Small area homemade solar simulator; 2. Electro-optic solar cell characterization equipment; 3. Photovoltaic device fabrication facilities; 4. Workstations for modelling and simulations of materials for solar cells.

IV.2. Resources and services for scientific exchange and preservation, IT infrastructure for scientific information access:

1. Subscription to peer-reviewed, international journals

Total Number:

6470

Short description of the facility:

Full text access to over 1800 journals from ScienceDirect Full text access to over 1800 journals from Springerlink Full text access to over 2870 journals from ProQuest Access given by INID Bucharest through the ANELIS program http://www.infocercetare.ro/index.php?county=16&city=146&institute=149

2. Access to electronic databases

Total Number:

11200

Short description of the facility:

Thomson ISI - Web of Science - access to over 11200 journals Thomson ISI - Journal Citation Report Thomson ISI - Dervent Inovation Index access to over 14 milion patents

3.ICT-based infrastructure for scientific information

Total Number:

50

Short description of the facility:

Internal network of over 50 computers, broadband internet connection through fiberoptics cables, 5 Intel workstations for intensive computing applications, modeling computational physics and chemistry software (Gaussian, ADF, GAMESS, etc.).

4.Other

Item description

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Total number:

N/A

Short description of the facility:

N/A

IV. 3. Which is (are) your most needed resources and services not currently available at your centre?

- Linux cluster for modeling and simulations - software for nuclear physics applications - equipment for solar cell testing and characterization

Disclaimer: All the data for this database were collected as a part of the UNESCO Venice Office Project “Strengthening Basic and Engineering Sciences Capacities in South Eastern Europe SEE”, i.e. as the subproject “Map of Excellence in Physics and Mathematics in SEE – the SEE MP e-Survey Project” launched in 2010, and continued in 2012/2013 in cooperation with the SEENET-MTP Network Office Nis – Faculty of Science Nis, and the Department of Physics, University of Craiova. Representatives of each institution are able to add, update or delete the data about their institution. The SEENET-MTP Network cannot be held liable for the published information and its accuracy.