Facilities

Instruments

The laboratory is open to external users. Instrument time is booked through the university's service portals, listed below.

In the laboratory

Our instruments

Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM)

LakeShore

• 1.2 T magnet
• 10⁻⁶ emu sensitivity
• LN₂ and LHe cryostat options

Reservations are made through the Services Nanomagnetism portal. See the rules of use before booking.

Reserve

14 T superconducting magnet

Oxford Instruments

• 14 T superconducting magnet
• Variable temperature insert, 1.5 K – 300 K
• Electrical transport: magnetoresistance and Hall effect

Improvements to this system are in progress.

Electromagnet

• Fields up to 1 T
• Room-temperature magnetoresistance measurements

Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)

• Up to 20 GHz
• Test parameter set
• Microwave sweeper (1–20 GHz)

MTI tube furnace, 1200 °C

MTI

• Two zones
• Automatic gas flow control
• Automatic pressure control

MTI tube furnace, 1500 °C

MTI

• Single zone

Impedance analyzer

Hewlett-Packard

• 100 Hz – 40 MHz

Shared facilities

Also available to us

Equipment in neighbouring laboratories — superconductivity, sample preparation and nanomaterials — that the group has access to.

• Optical and e-beam lithography Full optical lithography · Electron-beam lithography
• Wire bonder Kulicke & Soffa
• Sputtering system AJA 3-gun, 2 inch · Load lock
• E-beam evaporation system
• Scanning probe and electron microscopy Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) · Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) · Kelvin Force Microscopy (KFM) · Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) · Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• Nitrogen liquefaction plant
• Helium liquefaction plant Quantum Design 22 litres/day of LHe

Live from the lab

Current status