Our 'AFM' lab hosts one ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) Raman and photoluminescence-coupled variable temperature atomic force microscope usually working at 1.1 MHz (Raman MHz VT-AFM) and one time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a 1 Kelvin atomic force microscope (ToF-MS 1K AFM). The systems feature shadow-mask evaporation and low-temperature transport capabilities and complementary techniques. The ToF-MS routinely works in a temperature programmed desorption (TPD-MS) modality up to 1400 K, and with complementary Mg/Al X-ray desorption ionization (XDI-MS) or 337 nm laser desorption ionization (LDI-MS) units.

A 'coincidence' (aka 'super-resolution') time-of-flight two-photon photoemission electron microscope (2PPE ToF-PEEM) system is being upgraded in lab 0116.

Our 'dual microscope' is being automated with the goal of fabricating ultra-long spin chains characterised via PEEM at the mesoscopic scale and with LT STM/AFM at the single-spin scale.

Need to measure your sample at RT and ~30 K, or maybe simply fancy direct-heating? A die-hard Omicron (C) VT is there for you.

Our optical and device lab is currently hosted in an open facility for high resolution optical microscopy and probe station measurements under vacuum.