Equipment
Sample preparation
- Thin film pulsed laser deposition facility
- RF Sputtering Facility
- Czochralski Crystal Growth Facility
- Arc-Melting Facility
- Various Tube and Box Furnaces
- RF furnace
Materials' characterization
- SQUID Magnetometer
- Quantum Design PPMS and MPMS measurement systems
- Rigaku X-ray diffractometer
- scanning electron microscope
- EDS elemental analysis
- Bomem Michelson Interfereometer (200-5000 cm-1)
- Various continuous flow and closed-cycle cryostats
- Custom IR labs Helium-3 cryostat (dc resistivity/AC susceptibility)
- Specific heat, susceptibilty- and resistivity-measuring instruments for a
wide temperature range and under pressure
Optical and NMR spectroscopy
- Bruker IFS66V/S Interferometer (20-40000 cm-1)
- Sciencetech Martin-Puplitt type interferometer (5-200 cm-1)
- Jarell-Ash double grating spectrometer for Raman spectroscopy
- Custom IR labs Helium-3 cryostat (reflectance)
- Solid-state multi-channel NMR spectrometer with a 7T superconducting widebore magnet
Computer facilities
- Up-to-date and well-supported general-purpose computing throughout campus
- Membership in SHARCnet for large-scale parallel computing
- A large departmental Linux workstation group (80+ nodes), universal access to all faculty and students
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