Facilities
Capabilities
Characterization of coupled thermal, electrical, and magnetic transport in bulk materials
Materials properties, including but not limited to:
- Seebeck Effect
- Nernst Effect
- Hall Effect
- Thermal Hall Effect
- Electrical Resistivity
- Magnetoresistance
- Thermal Conductivity
- Heat Capacity
- Magnetic Moment
Customizable measurements and controls with options for the following conditions:
- Temperature range of 1.8 K to 400 K
- Magnetic field range of -9 T to +9 T
- Evacuated environment during measurement
- Isothermal and adiabatic sample mounts
- Nanovolt measurement sensitivity
- Sample preparation in an argon environment
Equipment
Quantum Design (QD) DynaCool Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
- Temperature range of 1.8 K to 400 K
- Superconducting magnet with range of -9 T to +9 T
- High vacuum chamber
- Electrical breakout box combined with LabVIEW controls for customized, automated experiments
- QD Resistivity Measurement System
- QD Electrical Transport Option (ETO)
- QD Heat Capacity Measurement System
- QD Thermal Transport Option (TTO)
- QD Vibrating System Magnetometer (VSM)
Customized cryostat station
- Janis continuous flow liquid nitrogen cryostat (with option for liquid helium)
- Temperature range of 78 K to 400 K (lower with liquid helium)
- Lakeshore EM4 electromagnet with range of -1.2 T to +1.2 T
- High vacuum capability
- Instrumentation and LabVIEW controls for customized, automated experiments
Glovebox
- Argon environment for oxygen-free storage and sample preparation
- Sight-glass integrated microscope for preparing samples for measurement