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Materials Research Centre (MRC)

Advancing Frontier Materials & Innovative Research | IISc Bangalore

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🔬 World-Class Infrastructure

State-of-the-Art
Research Facilities

MRC houses cutting-edge characterization and fabrication facilities, supporting advanced materials research across multiple domains.

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Dedicated Operators

Expert technical staff for each major equipment

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Industry Access

Collaboration & external user programs

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Training Programs

Regular workshops and certifications

Rapid Turnaround

Priority scheduling for time-sensitive research

Research Laboratory

Equipment Categories

Hybrid PLD + Sputtering

Hybrid PLD + Sputtering

Excel Instrument

  • 1 DC Chamber with 4 Plasma Gun
  • 1 RF Chamber
  • 1 PLD chamber connected with RF chamber
Atomic Force Microscopy

Atomic Force Microscopy

Oxford Instrument

  • PFM - Piezo Force Microscopy
  • SKFM - Scanning kelvien Force microscopy
  • CFM - Conducting Force Microscopy
  • Tomography
RHEED-PLD

RHEED-PLD

Excel Instrument

  • Temperature - RT - 800C
  • In setu - RHEED monitoring
  • Multiple target capability
Spin coater and UV ozone cleaner

Spin coater and UV ozone cleaner

HOLMARC

  • Critical for organic electronics, and preparing glass, ITO or silicon substrates for thin-film device fabrication
Vacuum sublimation

Vacuum sublimation

Delta 3-Zone tubular Furnance

  • Refining high-purity organic precursors required for high-efficiency optoelectronic research and production.
Biologic CV-electrochemical workstation

Biologic CV-electrochemical workstation

BioLogic

  • determining energy levels (HOMO/LUMO) for organic semiconductors
UV-visible 190 – 1100 nm

UV-visible 190 – 1100 nm

Jasco V-730

  • Determining material bandgaps
  • Chemical concentration analysis
  • Monitoring the optical properties of thin films.
Fluorimeter

Fluorimeter

Hitachi F-7100

  • Identifying molecular emission in liquid as well as solid
  • Evaluating the efficiency of light-emitting materials.
OLED device measurement

OLED device measurement

  • Measuring Current-Voltage-Luminance (IVL) characteristics
  • Determining the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of OLED
PL Lifetime measurements

PL Lifetime measurements

Edinburg FS-5

  • studying about the excited state dynamics
  • Absolute Quantum yield
  • Low temperature measurements to investigate the different mechanisms
Vacuum thermal Depositor

Vacuum thermal Depositor

HHV

  • High-precision manufacturing of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs), solar cells, and semiconductor electrical contacts.
High Performance Compute Clusters

High Performance Compute Clusters

  • Satya: 13 compute nodes each with 40 processors (2x Intel Xeon G-6248 CPU) , 9 nodes with 384 GB ram each and 4 nodes with 1TB ram each
  • Dirac: 9 compute nodes each with 48 processors (2x Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPU), 192 GB ram each
  • Kalam: 1 compute node with 40 processors (2x Intel Xeon G-6248 CPU), 4x V100 Tesla GPU, 384 GB ram
Hall measurement System

Hall measurement System

Ecopia

  • Permanent Magnetic field - 0.5T
  • Temperature range - 80K to 350K
Contact angle goniometer

Contact angle goniometer

  • contact angle
  • surface energy
universal tensile testing machine

universal tensile testing machine

Zwick/roell Z005

  • Tensile Testing
  • Compression Testing
Melt compounder and injection molding machine

Melt compounder and injection molding machine

Xplore

  • Melt compounder of polymers
  • plunger based injection molding
lyophilizer machine

lyophilizer machine

  • lyophilizing of samples
Ceramic 3D printer

Ceramic 3D printer

  • Ceramic 3D printer
Compression molding machine

Compression molding machine

Collin LAB.LINEP200E

  • Compression molding of polymer samples
fluorescence microscope

fluorescence microscope

NIKON

  • Fluorescence imaging for cell morphology and attachment visualization
Table TOP W-SEM

Table TOP W-SEM

JEOL

  • surface morphologies
Bio safety cabinet

Bio safety cabinet

LOGIC

  • In vivo cell culture experiments
Polishing machine

Polishing machine

METCO

  • surface Polishing machine
CO2 Incubator

CO2 Incubator

  • incubating in vitro cell culture samples
Probe sonicator

Probe sonicator

LABMAN

  • dispersion of the dissolved powder
Tubular furnace

Tubular furnace

  • sintering of materials
centrifuge machine

centrifuge machine

Eppendrof

  • centrifugation of in vitro samples
V-750 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer

V-750 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer

Jasco V-750

  • It supports advanced temperature control (Peltier, 5-90°C) for thermal studies.
  • High-resolution double-beam UV-Vis spectrophotometer (190–900 nm)featuring a PMT detector for high sensitivity. Ideal for liquid samples.
  • The V-750 offers a 0.1 nm spectral bandwidth and low stray light for excellent linearity.
Spex Mill 8000D

Spex Mill 8000D

8000D Dual-Clamp Mixer/Mill

  • Pulverises hard or brittle samples to analytical fineness.
  • Equipped with forced-air cooling and a safety interlock system for operator protection.
Rotating Ring Disk Electrode

Rotating Ring Disk Electrode

RRDE-3A

  • It is a hydrodynamic electroanalytical device.
  • Use to study reaction mechanisms like ORR or fuel cells.
Modular Compact Rheometer

Modular Compact Rheometer

Anton Paar-MCR 92

  • Characterizing mechanical properties of liquids, pastes, and solids (gels, polymers).
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)

Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)

  • Characterizing high-resolution sizing, absolute concentration, and visual validation for nanoparticles in suspension.
Hot Roll Press Machine

Hot Roll Press Machine

  • It can thermally calender electrode sheets of the battery material.
  • Works up to a 200°C temperature and rolls 2-100 mm.
Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC)

Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC)

VP-ITC

  • Measure the binding affinity and thermodynamic parameters (enthalpy, entropy, and stoichiometry) of molecular interactions in solution.