Equipment
List of instruments and equipment available in the group as well as via CF Nano Research Infrastructure
Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering microscopy and spectroscopy (BLS)
Magneto-optics
Kerr microscope (evico magnetics)
Magneto-optical ellipsometry
Miranda magneto-optical set-up
Options: focused beam (500 nm spot), scanning (piezostage), vectorial MOKE, temperature control, ... Highly automated software control. Developed by Lukáš Flajšman, and modified by Zdeněk Nekula. DOI: 10.1063/1.4948595.
Ultrafast (pump-probe) magneto-optical setup - in development
Magnetic microscopies (other than magneto-optical)
- Magnetic Force Microscopy (variable temperature, in-field measurements in moderate field)
- High Vacuum hr-AFM/MFM NanoScan VLS-80 (air or <5e-6mbar; IP field <200mT, OOP field <550mT)
- Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SEMPA, also with in-situ transport measurements)
- (S)TEM with Lorentz mode (also DPC imaging; EELS - EMCD possible)
Magnetotransport and electrical measurements
Several instruments and setups for electrical and magnetoresistance measurements. Controlable temperature, field, ...
Cryogenics VSM, VersaLab VSM (+magnetotransport)
CF Nano Research Infrastructure
Within CEITEC CF Nano Research Infrastructure we have access also to nanofabrication techniques (e-beam, optical, and laser lithography; various etching and deposition machines), chemical and structural analysis including:
- Scanning Auger Microscopy
- LEEM and other UHV characterization and deposition techniques
- X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
List of all instruments:
- Nanofabrication laboratory (lithography, etching & deposition)
- Nanocharacterization laboratory
- Structural analysis laboratory
- Chemical laboratory