Experimental Techniques
(1) Resistivity versus Temperature 4 K-300 K (dipper cryostat)(home made)
(2) Resistivity versus temperature 4 K - 300 K ( 4 sample holder exchange gas cryostat)(home made)
(3) Resistivity versus temperature 5 K to 300 K ; 4 sample holder, external field 0 Tesla to 12 Tesla (home made)
(4) Magnetisation versus temperature ( 2 K to 300 K) ; external field 0 Tesla to 16 Tesla (vibrating Sample Magnetometer, CRYOGENIC Inc., UK)
(5) ac susceptibility 2k to 300 K ; external field 0 Tesla to 16 Tesla part of VSM
(6) Resistivity under pressure upto 7.5 Gpa from 4 to 300 K
(7) Indigeneous Thermopower measurements set up in the 4 K to 300 K temperature range
(8) Home made Specific heat in the 77 K to 300 K temperature range
(9) Heliox cryostat to measure resistivity upto to 0.3 K
(10) Home made Hall effect system in external fields upto 12 Tesla
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Sample preparation
(1) Furnaces upto 1400 C
(2) Arc melting furnace
(3) Glove box to assemble air sensitive samples
(4) Ar atmosphere annealing in pressures upto 50 bar upto 950 C.
(5) Pulsed Laser deposition chamber