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Adachi & Kuriyagawa/Murashima Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University

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Experimental & measurement equipment

Experimental equipment

  • Ball-on-disk tribometer I
  • Ball-on-disk tribometer II
  • Ball-on-disk tribometer III (high-temperature friction tests)
  • Ball-on-disk tribometer IV (water-lubrication tests)
  • Vacuum ball-on-disk tribometer
  • Vacuum ball-bearing tribometer
  • Vacuum ball-bearing tribometer (on loan from Hitachi Medical)
  • TE66 Micro-scale Abrasion Tester(Phoenix Tribology)
  • Ultrasonic-motor-driven stage test system (small)
  • Ultrasonic-motor-driven stage test system (medium)
  • Ultrasonic-motor-driven stage test system (large; on loan from Kyocera)
  • Friction-induced sound measurement system
  • Cylinder-on-cylinder sliding tribometer (water-lubrication tests)
  • Twin-cylinder rolling tribometer
  • Flexible-media transport evaluation system
  • Rubbing apparatus for liquid-crystal alignment
  • Tribosystem excitation apparatus for evaluating liquid-crystal alignment rubbing cloths
  • Tribosystem excitation apparatus: signal generator (KENWOOD)
  • Tribosystem excitation apparatus: vibration exciter (EMIC 512-D)
  • Tribosystem excitation apparatus: power amplifier (EMIC 371-A)
  • Health-related experimental machine I: Bio Control Bike (Omron)
  • Health-related experimental machine II: Healthful Stepper (Omron)

Measurement & analytical equipment

  • Surface texture and roughness measuring instrument, SURFCOM 1500 (ACCRETECH)
  • Surface roughness measuring instrument (Mitutoyo)
  • Scanning probe microscope (atomic force microscope), SPI3800 (Seiko Instruments)
  • Scanning electron microscope, S-2350 (Hitachi)
  • Energy-dispersive X-ray analyzer, EMAX-7000 (HORIBA)
  • Field-emission scanning electron microscope, S-80 / high-resolution SEM image-processing system, PCI (Hitachi)
  • Environmental scanning electron microscope (shared equipment; Nikon)
  • Real-time scanning laser microscope, 1LM21 (Lasertec)
  • Optical microscope system / optical microscope, BH2-UMA (OLYMPUS)
  • Optical microscope system / microscope digital camera, DS-5M-L1 BH2-UMA (Nikon)
  • Stereo microscope system / stereo microscope, SZ-60 (OLYMPUS)
  • Stereo microscope system / CCD camera, FCD-725 (OLYMPUS)
  • Digital HF microscope, VH-8000 (lenses: VH-Z25, VH-Z75, VH-Z450; KEYENCE)
  • Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer, FT-520W (HORIBA)
  • Laser Doppler vibrometer, LV-1610 (Ono Sokki)
  • Laser Doppler vibrometer, LV10 (SONY)
  • Microindentation hardness tester, MHA-400 (NEC)
  • Vickers hardness tester, MVK-E (AKASHI)
  • Precision balance, AE163 (Mettler)
  • Infrared radiation thermometer, IR-AP (CHINO)

Environmental-control equipment

  • Infrared spot heater, IR-2000 (Thermo Riko)
  • High-speed, high-precision compact ionizing blower, SJ-F100/010 (KEYENCE)
  • Ionizing blower, SJ-F020 (KEYENCE)
  • Temperature and humidity controller (TABAI; on loan from SONY)
  • Clean booth (AIRTECH; on loan from Alps Electric)
  • Specimen polishing machine, Doctor-Lap (MARUTO)
  • Small drill press

Deposition equipment

  • Ion-beam mixing system (shared equipment; Hitachi)
  • Ion coater, IB-3 (Eiko)