National Spark Plasma Sintering Facility

Coordinates 59.36214087655043, 18.05785245603059
Contact name Carl Sandberg and Mirva Eriksson mirva.eriksson@mmk.su.se
CIVIS Label No
Acronym SPS
Scientific domain

PE11_2 - Unknown - Unknown


 

PE11_1 - Engineering of biomaterials, biomimetic, bioinspired and bio-enabled materials - Materials Engineering


 

PE5_7 - Biomaterials synthesis - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials


 

PE11_3 - Engineering of ceramics and glasses - Materials Engineering


 

PE11_7 - Engineering of metal oxides - Materials Engineering


 

PE11_4 - Engineering of polymers and plastics - Materials Engineering


 

PE11_6 - Engineering of carbon materials - Materials Engineering


 

PE5_6 - New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials


 

PE11_12 - Semi-conducting and magnetic materials engineering - Materials Engineering


 

PE11_5 - Engineering of composites and hybrid materials - Materials Engineering


 

PE5_2 - Solid state materials chemistry - Synthetic Chemistry and Materials


Keywords

Electric field assisted sintering


Partner institution

Stockholms Universitet


Website No
Technical staff available No
Remote access details The National SPS Faciliy is open reserach facility available to academics and companies
Remote access available No
Open to external users No
Equipment Full service with operator (according to a quotation), training to use the facility and access to the facility after training
Open access to updated information database No
Online booking system details https://www.mmk.su.se/research/facilities/national-sps-facility
Online booking system available No
Description Unique sintering facility with two Spark plasma sintering units, where the other one is placed in inert atmosphere glove box. The maximum temperatures reached are 2500 °C with small sample sizes. And uniaxial pressures that can be aplied are 50 kN and 250 kN