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    Prof. Dr. Marianne Liebi

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    Dr. Steven Van Petegem

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    steven.vanpetegem@psi.ch
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Laser powder bed fusion device

Metal additive manufacturing

Several operando L-PBF devices are available at the Paul Scherrer Institute. They allow performing operando L-PBF at synchrotrons and neutron sources.

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Shear device

Deformation rigs

Micro Tensile Machine (1000N), Tension/Compression Module (5000N), Minibiaxial Tensile Machine (45N), Mesobiaxial Tensile Machine (1000N), Micro Compression Device (10mN), Micro Shear Device (5N)


 

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Polarisation Microscopy

Polarisation microscopy allows to retrieve at microscopic resolution the nanoscale structural information of the ultrastructure in a non-destructive manner using low cost and experimentally "simple" optical setup.

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