Gamry Reference 3020

The Gamry Instruments Reference 3020™ is a high-performance high-current Potentiostat/ Galvanostat/ZRA meant for the most demanding of applications. An optional booster is available for even higher current applications.

The Reference 3020 is a potentiostat sensitive enough for research and capable enough for development of your battery, fuel cell, or electrolyzer. It is smaller and lighter than most comparable potentiostats. Don’t let its size fool you — it offers research grade performance. While the Reference 3020 can apply and measure ampere level currents, it is also an excellent low noise, small signal potentiostat that can work with picoamp currents.

The Reference 3020 can be used with Gamry Instruments’ software for all traditional applications of electrochemistry. These include:

Potentiostat/Galvanostat/ZRA

Fuel cell and electrolyzer research

Battery development

Electroplating

Kinetic and Thermodynamic Measurements

Corrosion Measurement

Sensor Development

Electrocatalysis

Analytical Electrochemistry

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

While the Reference 3020 is a very good general-purpose potentiostat, it was developed to beespecially useful for energy applications. This field includes development of new chemistries, devices and systems for batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers. The Reference 3020 can operate

stacks with voltages as high as 36 volts. The Reference 3020 has features useful in ESC testing that are not found in other potentiostats and

electrochemical systems. These include:

A special stack mode that allows measurement and Potentiostatic control of stack voltages up to ±36 volts.

Two switchable compliance voltage and compliance current settings. The two settings are ± 36 Volts at ± 1.5 Amps and ± 17.5 volts (±11 Volts applied) at ± 3.0 Amps.

EIS measurements in potentiostatic or one of two galvanostatic modes – normal and hybrid. In hybrid mode the AC current at each frequency is dynamically adjusted to give a fixed AC voltage.

An Auxiliary Electrometer option with an array of eight high-voltage differential voltage inputs.

These inputs can be used to measure voltages of cells in an ESC stack or measure reference electrodes within one electrochemical cell.

Optional Low Impedance Cables that can measure cell impedances as low as 100 μΩ.