Equipment

Fabrication of Fullerenes and nanotubes laboratory

- Evaporation chamber with two arc-deposition sources (Home built)
- Flame and collection system under construction
- leak detector
- rf power supply sources
- closed cycle refrigeration system( home built)

Crystal growth laboratory

Chokralski type machine fully computer controlled via an A/D and D/A bus converter (Home built)




Transport properties laboratory

d.c and a.c. resistivity measurements at high temperatures
- Nano-voltmeter (Keithly)
- Pico-ampermeter (Keithly)
- Oven up to 1100°C
- Measurement chamber under vacuum or inert gas

Computer controlled measurement via an IEEE bus

X-ray diffraction laboratory

Seifert ID 3000 x-ray generator
Debye-cherrer chamber, Guinier chamber, Read Camera, Rotating crystal chamber, Dark room

Seifert ID 3003 x-ray generator

XRD7 Seifert Computer Controlled Bragg-Brentano Diffractometer

Computing facilities

GPL has single PCs. We managed in 2003 to set up a cluster of PC's (PIII; older ones) named "Guelmoi" (see how)
This cluster is composed of 9 nodes ( one master and eight slaves) runing under linux and unsing the MPICH (passing message librairies); For the time being this cluster is not operational, need for newer machines.
Azouzi and Zanat (when is it going to converge?)
It's going to be better oh, it's ok now
it's not operational for the time being (need for machines with better characteristics)