Equipment

List of instruments and equipment available in the group as well as via CF Nano Research Infrastructure 

Spin-wave spectroscopy

• Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering microscopy and spectroscopy (BLS)
• Vector Network Analyzer with a probe station
  • for characterization of magnetic properties (VNA-FMR​) and spin waves (propagating spin-wave spectroscopy – PSWS)
  • ​may be combined with Cryogenic Ltd. CFMS cryostat for low-temperature microwave measurements (VNA-FMR, PSWS, superconducting resonator characterization, ...)

Ultrafast setup

• Ultrafast (pump-probe) magneto-optical setup - in development

Magnetic microscopies

• Kerr microscope (evico magnetics)
• 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/EMLD possible)

Magnetotransport and Magnetometry

• Cryogenic VSM, VersaLab VSM (Magnetometry + magnetotransport)
• VSM SQUID - to be installed in 2026
• Setups for electrical and magnetoresistance measurements.  Variable temperature, field.

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