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:

Supercomputer

Year of acquisition:

2007

Average value at the time of acquisition :

1107000

Short Description:

Contains a cluster of 130 quad-core processors, 4 Tflop, 1 TB RAM; Workstation SUN Blade 2500, 10 GB RAM, software COMSOL 3.3

Item 2

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Spectrometru XPS&AES, Physical Electronics, PHI-VersaProbe 5000

Year of acquisition:

2007.0000

Average value at the time of acquisition :

1600000

Short Description:

Spectrometru XPS&AES, Physical Electronics, PHI-VersaProbe 5000

Item 3

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

SQUID magnetometer (equivalent MPMS-XL-7AC – Quantum Design)

Year of acquisition:

2008

Average value at the time of acquisition :

1460000

Short Description:

Maximum field of 7 T, temperatures (1.9 -400) K, low-field system, AC measurements, magnetoresistence and Hall measurements kit, pressure cell of 10kbar.

Item 4

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Impedance analysers (Agilent E4908A – 10Hz-2MHz, Agilent E4991A – 1 MHz-3GHz, Agilent E8361A PNA Network Analyser – 10 MHz-67 GHz), probe station for vertical magnetic field (LakeShore VFTTP4, field of maximum 2.5 T, temperature (2-400) K, frequency below 67 GHz).

Year of acquisition:

2008

Average value at the time of acquisition :

1000000

Short Description:

Impedance analysers (Agilent E4908A – 10Hz-2MHz, Agilent E4991A – 1 MHz-3GHz, Agilent E8361A PNA Network Analyser – 10 MHz-67 GHz), probe station for vertical magnetic field (LakeShore VFTTP4, field of maximum 2.5 T, temperature (2-400) K, frequency below 67 GHz).

Item 5

Total Number:

1

facilities, equipments/ instrumentation:

Difractometer Shimadzu XRD 6000

Year of acquisition:

2008

Average value at the time of acquisition :

500000

Short Description:

Maximum scanning speed of 1000°/min, angular reproducibility of 0.001°; various X tubes: 2kW and focus of 2.7kW. Bragg-Brentano geometry.

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:

15

Short description of the facility:

8 for Physics, 5 for Material Science, 2 for Applied Mathematics

2. Access to electronic databases

Total Number:

3

Short description of the facility:

Scopus, Web of Science, Thomson ISI

3.ICT-based infrastructure for scientific information

Total Number:

4

Short description of the facility:

5 networks with around 85 users (computers)

4.Other

Item description

N/A

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?

Scanning Electrone Microscope with high resolution (with field effect gun SEM-FEG facility) High resolution Transmission Electrone Microscope HRTEM Raman spectrocscopy facility

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.