Experimental Facilities and Shared Facilities Available to Group Members
Fabrication and Processing
Sputter deposition
- Four-source small chamber system
- Four-source new chamber system
- Six-source large chamber system with plasma and ion milling guns
- Ten-source AJA system with e-beam evaporation chamber
Nova 600 Dual Beam focused ion beam
Lambda-Physik pulsed laser deposition system
Tubular furnaces (up to 1500°C)
Centorr tri-arc furnace
Spex 8000 high-energy ball mill
Perkin-Elmer UHV deposition system
Optical and electron beam lithography
X-ray Characterization
MRD dual beam x-ray diffraction system
MPD 4-circle x-ray diffraction system
Laue x-ray diffractometer
X-ray photoelectron spectrometer
Electron Microscopy Facilities
Amray 1860 FEG high resolution SEM
Zeiss EVO 50 SEM
Philips 420ST TEM
300 keV HRTEM with FEG and GIF
Surface Characterization Facilities
Tencor Thin film profilometer
Digital Instruments multimode AFM/MFM
STM tip etching and coating set-up
Perkin-Elmer LEED Auger surface analytical system
Measurement of Physical Properties
Quantum Design SQUID magnetometer
DMS model 10 vector vibrating sample magnetometer
DMS 1660 cryostat vibrating sample magnetometer
Magneto-transport properties
AC susceptometer
Point contact spectroscopy