The laboratory offers and is equipped for:

-comprehensive preparation and storage of samples, especially materialographic preparation and cuttings (concretes, metals, plastics, composites, wood, etc.), metal sputtering (Pt/Au/C), grinding, polishing, vacuuming, drying

-light microscopy, including digital image acquisition, several types of illumination and filters, extended field of focus

-tabletop electron microscopy, BSE, SE imaging, elemental analysis EDS (Phenom XL)

-high-resolution electron microscopy, focused ion beam (Xenon), cutting-edge analytics EDS, EBSD (Tescan Amber X)

-atomic force microscopy (AFM)

-micromechanical characterization using nanoindentation (3 stand alone nanoindenters), several modes, in-situ picoindentation inside the SEM chamber