Facilities

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Processing

• melt spinning
• mechanical alloying
• mechano-chemical synthesis (reactive milling in 150 bar hydrogen)
• casting
• hot-pressing and backward extrusion (net-shaped ring magnets)
• hydrogen-assisted processing (HD and HDDR)
• high pressure autoclave (500bar and 500°C)
• magnetic field annealing 

Magnetometry

• VSM (4 -800K, 9 Tesla)
• SQUID incl. pressure cell
• Permeameter (up to 200°C)

Magnetocaloric Properties

• direct measurement of adiabatic temperature change DT
• indirect measurement of DS
• cp in magnetic field
• magnetovolume effects

Magnetic Microstructure

• time-, field-, temperature-dependent Kerr microscopy
• MFM

Structural Characterisation

• high resolution scanning (incl. EBSD) electron microscopy
• high resolution transmission electron microscopy
• X-ray diffraction
• Raman spectroscopy (200bar, 400°C)

Thermal Properties

• various DTA, DSC and TGA apparatuses (e.g. Netzsch DSC 150 bar hydrogen)
• Setaram DSC-TGA-MS (400bar, 800°C, Hiden IGA)

Magnetorheological Properties

• Anton-Paar Physica MCR 100 rheometer