Equipment
Laboratory Film Deposition and Processing Facility:
1. AJA 8-target UHV MRAM magnetron sputtering deposition system
2. Home-built 6-target UHV magnetron sputtering deposition system
3. Home-built metal growth UHV evaporation system
4. PAR Pulsed electrodeposition system
5. Edwards 306 thermal and e-beam evaporation system
6. Riber III-V semiconductor molecular beam epiatxy system
7. Home-built in-plane and perpendicular field annealing high vacuum system
8. AJA 8-target UHV RRAM magnetron sputtering deposition system
Laboratory Micro-/Nano-fabrication Facility:
1. Raith e-line electron beam lithography
2. Suss Microtec MJB4 mask aligner
3. AJA ion milling system with Hiden SIMS element detector
4. SCS G3-8 programmable spin coater
5. Laurell 150mm spin Coater
6. Nikon Eclipse advanced research upright optical microscope
7. Olympus advanced optical microscope
8. Quorum Technology oxygen plasma barrel etcher
9. Stainless steel solvent bench for nanolithography
10. PP acid and solvent benches for photolithography and etching
11. Sartorius DI water system
12. Elga DI water system
Laboratory Characterisation Facility:
1. Cascade Microtech 40GHz RF probe station
2. Home-built four-point probe and bonded-chip AMR/GMR/TMR measurement set-up
3. Picosecond model 10300B programmable pulse generator
4. Teledyne LeCroy WaveMasater 6 GHz real-time bandwidth oscilloscope
5. Home-built polar and in-plane magneto-optical Kerr magnetometry (MOKE)
6. Park System atomic/magnetic force microscopy with in-situ magnetic field
7. Lakeshore EM4 electromagnet with model 642 power supply
8. Home-built quadrupole electromagnet and rotating field control system
9. Home-built magneto-fluidics bioMEMS probing station
10. Home-built vector network analyser based ferromagnetic resonance system
11. Magvision Kerr microscopy
12. Keithley 4200A-SCS Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer Characterization System
13. Lakeshore model 8600 vibrating sample magnetometer
Group's Computation Capability:
1. 5 units of Xeon-based simulation workstations
2. OOMMF micromagnetic simulation program (NIST public code)
3. LLG Micromagnetic Simulator
4. mumax3 GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulation program (DyNaMat public code)
School/Division Central Facility:
1. Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)/VSM
2. Quantum Design Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (MPMS SQUID)
3. JEOL JEM-1400 transmission electron microscope
4. JEOL 6700F field emission scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray analysis
5. Bruker D8 Advance powder X-ray diffraction system
6. Rigaku Smartlab high resolution X-ray diffractometer
7. Veeco Dimension 3100 scanning probe microscope
8. Asylum Research Cypher S fast scanning atomic force microscope