Resources

What to consult

Material students in the group need to hand. Everything here is open — there is no login. Vendor documentation is listed so you know it exists, but it is copyright, so you have to ask for a copy rather than download it.

Instruments

Manuals and operating rules for the equipment in the lab.

• ASK VSM user manual (LakeShore) Ask the lab coordinator. Vendor documentation, not ours to redistribute. on request
• LINK Normas de uso del VSM Booking and operating rules, in Spanish. external
• ASK 14 T superconducting magnet — operating manual (Oxford) Ask the lab coordinator before any cryogenic run. on request
• ASK MTI tube furnace manuals, 1200 °C and 1500 °C Ask the lab coordinator. on request

Reference

Things worth having to hand while you work.

• PDF Magnetic units and conversions emu, A/m, Oe, T, G and the SI/CGS conversions, with worked examples of normalising a moment by mass, volume and formula unit — the step most often got wrong. not uploaded
• PDF First-order reversal curves — a short primer What a FORC diagram shows, how to read one, and how to acquire it on the VSM. not uploaded

Protocols

How we do things here, so results stay traceable.

• PDF Sample naming and logbook conventions How samples are named, logged and stored so a measurement can be traced years later. not uploaded

Safety

Required before you work with the equipment concerned.

• ASK Handling liquid helium and nitrogen Department safety induction. Required before working with cryogens. on request

Software

Tools the group uses, and where to learn them.

• LINK Quantum ESPRESSO on the Uniandes cluster Materials from the group's ECMA_QE school — SSH, Slurm and input files. external
• LINK Micromagnetic simulation with MuMax³ Used in the group for magnetization dynamics and domain structure. external

Something missing that you had to work out the hard way? Write it down and it goes here — that is how this page is supposed to grow.