Central Instrumentation Facility's excellence in teaching and research by Science Schools need the state-of-the-art sophisticated equipments, various workshops and support facilities as these equipments and facilities help the faculty the research scholars and students to carry out globally competitive R & D in basic and applied sciences.

The facilities of the CIF come under the following groups:
Mechanical Shop
Electronic shop
Analytical Instruments section.

Electronic shop of the centre is equipped with necessary Electronic Test & Measurement equipment and tools to undertake maintenance, repair and service works of all types of Electrical, electronics and audio-visual equipment instruments / equipment / appliances & teaching aid.

Equipment available at Electronic shop are:
Several Test and measuring instruments,
Standard Oscilloscopes,
100 MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope,
Function Generators,
Microprocessor & Microcontroller Trainer & Development kits,
IC and Discrete Device Testers and
LCR meter

Machinery available with Mechanical Shop:
Machining - 10' Heavy duty cone pulley Lathe,
All geared HMT lathe,
Universal Milling Machine,
Bending - Manual machine for sheets up to 4 mm,
Cutting - Power Hacksaw, manual shear,
Welding – Electric Arc (200 A),
Gas welding cylinders and Torches,
Drilling - Vertical drilling up to 40mm dia,
Grinding - Bench, Angle,
Flexible grinders,
Painting - Air Compressor,
Tools and Accessories.

Analytical Instruments

VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETER
Make: Lake Shore: Model: 7404

UV-VIS-NIR SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Make: Varian Model: 5000

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER
Make: Thermo Nicolet Model:6700

SPECTROFLUROMETER
Make: Jobin Yvon
Model :FLUOROLOG - FL3-11

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Make: Hitachi, Model: S-3400N

WAVE LENGTH DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER (WD-XRF)
Make: Bruker , Model : S4 PIONEER

WAVE LENGTH DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER (WD-XRF)
Make: Bruker , Model : S4 PIONEER

THERMAL SYSTEM (TGA-DTA / DSC)
Make: TA instruments, Model : Q600 SDT and Q20 DSC

GAMMA RAY CHAMBER

PLANETARY MONOMILL
Make : Fristch
Model : Pulverisette-7 (Monomill)

High performance Liquid chromatography (HPLC)
Make: Shimadzu
Model: Prominence

Broad band Dielectric Spectrometer (BDS)
Make: NOVOCONTROL Technologies GmbH & Co. Germany
Model : Concept 80

Electron Probe Microanalyser
Make: CAMECA, France
Model : SX 100

Contact Details:

Pondicherry University,
Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Administrative Building,
R.V.Nagar, Kalapet,
Puducherry – 605014.
Tel : 0413 - 2655179
Fax : 0413 - 2655734
e-mail : registrar@pondiuni.edu.in