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Physics and Instrumentation
Facilities
All the department's activities are based on not only the theoretical and technical know-how of its teams but also the technologies selected and developed with experimental production and characterization resources essential for the work.
The current resources are:
Mechanical and micro-mechanical engineering
- mechanical engineering CAD/CAM software: two Catia workstations, two Autocad workstations
- micro-mechanical engineering laboratory with:
- traditional machining tools, lathes, milling machines, grinding machines, and also special ones, ultrasonic machining machine, grinding tools...
- metrology and inspection tools, feelers, capacitance meters, profile meters, interferometers...
- pumping machines for primary or secondary vacuums, vacuum chambers, turbo-molecular, diffusion and ion pumps
- two cryostats for experiments at the temperature of liquid nitrogen or hydrogen
- white room and clean rooms with hoods with horizontal blowers (100 class), specific cleaning benches, including cleaning by ultrasonic agitation or with liquid nitrogen
Micro-machining and deposition
- micro-lithography bench
- two benches for the deposition of materials by cathodic spraying under vacuum or in a controlled atmosphere
- micro-welding stations
- laboratory for the micro-machining of quartz
Electronics
- analog electronics laboratory with:
- reference sources, signal generators, oscilloscopes, voltmeters, ammeters, high precision capacitance meters
- low frequency (up to 64.10-6 Hz) and high frequency (up to 100 kHz) spectrum analyzers
- components, cards, spatial wiring
- multi-layer embedding software and Spice simulation software
- digital electronics laboratory with:
- logical states analyzer
- multi-layer embedding software and simulation software
- DSP emulation software
- 3D interferometer for locating electrical activity in clouds, with the associated electronics and data acquisition system
- broadband network analyzers (10 Hz - 4 GHz)
- automatic fast measurement acquisition system: 4 channels, 50 MHz, 12 bits
Optical
- four laser test benches with colorings
- laser test bench (YAG) for calibrating thermal flow meters
- two DRASC (coherent Rahman anti-Stokes diffusion) benches
- two laser test benches for cold atoms instrumentation (Caesium and Rubidium)
- Optical characterization resources:
- o sigma-meters
- cooled CCD camera
- IR laser diode spectrometer
- monomode 4 microns OPO
- high power OPO (1mJ, 3-5 microns)
Instrumentation and tests
- tests equipment for inertial sensors:
- turnover table under g for accelerometer tests (1 arc second)
- test benches uncoupled from seismic vibrations (1/10000 arc second)
- turning table for gyrometer tests
- thermal chambers, vibrators, surface plates
- B61vacuum vessel for tests of electric propulsion units:
- cryogenic pumping
- associated electronic equipment (gauges, mass spectrometer, camera, power supplies and connectors...)
- two thrust balances, 10mN-10 µN and 100 µN-0.1 µN scales
- one optical test bench for metrology by induced fluorescence (tunable laser diode)
- vacuum vessel for FEEP propulsion unit tests
Computing equipment and software
- many computing resources, Unix workstations and PCs with scientific and office automation libraries,
- finite element modeling software for thermal and mechanical engineering (Samcef),
- automatic simulation software (Mathlab and Mathcad),
- specific filtering software,
- specific 3D electrical field calculation software,
- specific 2D calculation software for the deposition of ice on wings,
- specific 3D software (medium and large scale) for the transport and chemistry of effluents in the atmosphere,
- specific software for the analysis of lightning conditions
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