The equipment available within the laboratory includes: - SQUID Magnetometer - With a 7 Tesla solenoid and temperature inserts which allow measurements between 2K and 800K.
- Two 57-Fe Mossbauer Spectrometers - One with a liquid helium
cryostat, available for measurement of hyperfine fields of Fe-based
materials.
- Vibrating Sample Magnetometers - we have two available in the
laboratory. They operate at magnetising fields of 5 Tesla and 12 Tesla
produced by superconducting solenoids. Sample cryostats are used to
make measurements of magnetic and electrical properties at temperatures
between 3.8K and 1000K.
- 60 MHz Bruker MiniSpec proton relaxometer with variable sample temperature control (25 to 40C)
- Optical microscope with digital video capture
- Magneto-Optic Magnetometers - Both a high speed (microsecond
timescales) and a high stability (1000's of seconds timescale) units
with fields up to a 2.2 Tesla electromagnet and temperatures from
room temperature to liquid helium.
- Radio-Frequency Sputtering System - For plasma deposition of thin films, under high vacuum conditions.
- Pulsed Inductive Microwave Magnetometer (PIMM) - for measuring
magnetic response of materials to pulsed fields on picosecond
timescales
Members of the group have access to other analytical equipment, including XRD, ICP-MS and electron and magnetic force microscopes (through the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis) for materials characterisation.
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