Equipment

Atomic Force Microscope

• Modell: Veeco Dimension 3100
• Company: Veeco 
• Year of manufacture: 2000

operated in air, contact, tapping und non-contact mode, electric force microscopy (EFM), Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM), Surface Potential Microscopy/Kelvin Probe Microscopy (SPM/KPFM), Conductive AFM (c-AFM), pneuamtiv vibration isolation system, acoustic hood

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Catalytic Fixed Bed Flow Reactor

• Home built

Fixed Bed Flow Reactor setup with mass spectrometry detection (Prisma), pre-oxidation, pre-reduction and catalytic treatments (e.g., NO reduction, methane oxidation, methane dry reforming) between 25 °C and 1100 °C are possible, includes LINN furnace

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Catalytic Re-circulation batch reactor

• Home built

Lab-VIEW controlled re-circulating quartz batch reactor with mass spetcrometry/gas chromatography detection, gas inlets for various oxidizing and reducing pretreatment gases, as well as alcohol and hydrocarbon reforming mixtures, accessible temperature range: room temperature to 1200 °C (Linn High-Therm FRV-25/150/1100 furnace with PID control)

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Ellipsometry

• Modell: Ruby 2000
• Company: Horiba Jobin Yvon
• Year of manufacture: 2004

Single-wavelength 532 nm (He-Ne-Laser), incident angle adjustable to 55° or 70°

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

• Modell: Cary 670
• Company: Agilent 

MIR range 4000-600 cm-1, in situ reaction cell for spectroscopy at temperatures up to 1000 °C, FT-IR/mass spectrometry coupling (High Cube Eco Pumping stage+Pfeiffer Prism), portable glove box for quasi in situ measurements

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

2-Zone Furnace

• Modell: FRHT-2/700/1250
• Company: Linn High-Therm
• Year of manufacture: 2010

temperature range 25 °C to 1250 °C

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Near-Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

• Modell: Customized
• Company: SPECS 
• Year of manufacture: 2019

can be backfilled with gas atmosphere up to 30 mbar, PHOIBOS 150 NAP hermispherical energy analyzer with 1D-DLD detector, µFOCUS 600 NAPP monochromatic small spot X-ray source (Al Kalpha), Flood gun FG 22/35, 4-axes manipulator adapted for laser heating, 4-axes kryo maipulator (96 K), 4-axes manipulator for in situ electrochemical measurements, mass spectrometer for aoperando measurements

Contact for further information and cooperation: Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

In situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

• Modell: Zennium XC
• Company: Zahner
• Year of manufacture: 2023

DC Voltage range: +/- 5V and +/-14V, current up to +/- 2A over 12 current ranges, EIS frequency range from 10 µHz to 5 MHz, AC amplitude of 0-6 V or 0-2 A for EIS, switchable floating/grounded mode; Linn furnace

Contact for further information and cooperation: Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

Muffle furnace

• Modell: MO 51/3R
• Company: Nabertherm
• Year of manufacture: 2000

Calcination in air possible up to 1100 °C

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Student Laboratory: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy

• Modell: Easyscan
• Company: Nanosurf
• Year of manufacture: 2011

operated in air with Pt-Ir tips; including HOPG, au, TaS₂ and MoS₂ samples

Contact for further information and cooperation: Laerte.Patera@uibk.ac.at

Surface Area and Pore Size analysis

• Modell: Quantachrome 2000
• Company: Quantachrome
• Year of manufacture: 2011

surface area and pore size determination of powder materials; static and dynamic BET/BJH methods possible

Contact for further information and cooperation: Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

Surface Tension measurements

• Modell: TCD1
• Company: Krüss
• Year of manufacture: 2011

surface tension measurements including Peltier element, 25°C-80 °C; measurements exploiting the using a tensile force after DeNouy ring or Wilhelmy plate method possible

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Thermogravimetric analysis

• Modell: STA 449 F3 Jupiter
• Company: Netzsch
• Year of manufacture: 2015

thermal analysis, differential thermal analysis (DTA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) possible; temperature range: -180 °C to 500 °C using a Cu furnace, 30 °C to 1600 °C using a SiC furnace; in situ and operando measurements possible (High Cube Eco pumping stage including Pfeiffer Prism mass spectrometer). Gases: Ar, N₂, O₂, H₂(5%)/Ar, CO₂, CH₄ and mixtures

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

UHV apparatus for model catalyst preparation and characterization

• Home Built
• Year of manufacture: 1995

Thermo-Fisher Alpha Analyzer for low-energy ion scattering, Auger electron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements, high-pressure circulating quartz reactor cell ( 1 bar, 1000 °C) including gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis, load lock for multiple substrates, oxide and metal evaporators

Contact for further information and cooperation: Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

UV-VIS spectroscopy

• Modell: Cary 60
• Company: Agilent
• Year of manufacture: 2011

wavelength range 290 - 1100 cm^-1

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Volumetric adsorption

• Home built

temperature range: 25 °C - 1100 °C, static or flow conditions possible, High Cube Eco pumping stage including Pfeiffer Prism mass spectrometer, suitable for temperature-programmed oxidation, -reduction, -reaction measurements and thermal desorption spectroscopy

Contact for further information and cooperation: Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

X-ray diffraction

• Modell: Rigaku SmartLab
• Company: Rigaku
• Year of manufacture: 2019

Cu target (3 kW), selection of divergent (K-beta filter or CBO-alpha) and parallel beam alignment (cross beam optic), high-resolution theta/theta closed loop goniometer, 2-D HyPix3000 high-energy resolution semiconductor detector; ReactorX reactor chamber up to 1000 °C (oxidative and reductive gases, gas mixtures), Rigaku high-temperarure chamber up to 1500 °C, Anton Paar high-temperature chamber up to 1200 °C; operando measurements possible with a High Cube Eco pumping stage including Pfeiffer Prism mass spectrometer

Contact for further information and cooperation: Volker.Kahlenberg@uibk.ac.at

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

• Modell: Multilab2000
• Company: Thermo Fisher
• Year of manufacture: 2004

Al/Mg twin anode; monochromated Al Kalpha X-ray source; (angle resolved) XPS, UPS, ISS and AES measurements possible; ion gun for sputter-depth profiling, charge compensation via flood gun

Contact for further information and cooperation: Christoph.Griesser@uibk.ac.at

High temperature tube furnace

• Modell: HTRV 16/40/250
• Company: Carbolite
• Year of manufacture: 2023

vertical high-temperature tube furnace up to 1600 °C; 250 mm heated length; PID control; work under protective gas possible; O₂ sensor for fugacity control

Contact for further information and cooperation: Volker.Kahlenberg@uibk.ac.at

Scanning Tunnelling/Atomic Force Microscope

• Modell: Infinity
• Company: Scienta Omicron
• Year of manufacture: 2019

Based on the qPlus sensor design, the microscope allows for high-resolution STM/AFM and extensive spectroscopy experiments. A pulse tube cooler is employed to cool the microscope to a temperature of about 8.5 K. An additional UHV chamber, equipped with several evaporators and a low energy electron diffraction (LEED) setup, is dedicated to sample preparation.

Contact for further information and cooperation: Laerte.Patera@uibk.ac.at

Laboratory for synthetic preparation of materials and catalysts

• impregnation, sol-gel, solid state synthesis; preparation of powder, metallic, intermetallic and ceramic catalyst materials

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at

Thin Film preparation laboratory

• Deposition of thin films in ranges from nm- to µm thickness; deposition of thin films by thermal evaporation, quartz crystal microbalance; Lesker Torus magnetron sputter source (2" target diameter, 300 W RF power supplies for conducting and insulating targets), home-built ion beam sputter gun for metallic and oxidic targets; 3 single electron-beam evaporators for metallic targets; 2 triple electron-beam evaporators for metallic and multimetallic targets, templeta holders for electron microscopy and catalytic samples, preparation of intermetallic phases by co-melting

Contact for further information and cooperation: Simon.Penner@uibk.ac.at and Bernhard.Kloetzer@uibk.ac.at

Scanning Tunnelling/Atomic Force Microscope

• Modell: LT-STM/AFM
• Company: Createc
• Year of manufacture: 2023

Based on the qPlus sensor design, the microscope allows for high-resolution STM/AFM and extensive spectroscopy experiments. The microscope is cooled by a bath cryostat, which can be cooled down to liquid helium temperature, which is about 4.2K. The STM head is additionally equiped with a lense system, which allows to couple a laser into the STM. Supplementary another UHV chamber, equipped with several evaporators and a quartz micro balance, is dedicated to sample preparation.

Contact for further information and cooperation: Laerte.Patera@uibk.ac.at