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, ...

• Vector Network Analyzer with a probe station

• 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