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The table below lists capabilities and facilities available to all members within the FLEET network and collaborators. Columns can be sorted by clicking on table headings. Use the search box to filter by keywords.
| Equipment/Facility | FLEET Researcher | Institute |
|---|---|---|
| Angle-resolved reflectivity measurements | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| CW Laser: M2 SolsTiS-7W-BRF-R · Tunable Ti:Sapphire laser; 715 – 885 nm, 1W peak power | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Cryostat: Janis ST-500 · Continuous flow cryostat · Temperature dependent measurements; 4K – 300K | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Exciton-polariton specific: · Design and characterisation of optical microcavities and distributed Bragg reflectors for coupling light and excitons. | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Femtosecond Laser: Chameleon Ultra II · 140-fs, 80-MHz Ti:Sapphire laser · Tunable (680 – 1080 nm, >3.5 W average power at 800 nm) | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Photoluminescence measurements · Near-field (real space) and far-field (momentum space) imaging · Polarisation and time-resolved · Temperature dependence (4K – 300K) · Spectral resolution 0.015 nm · Tunable CW pump: 715 – 885 nm · Tunable femstosecond pump: 1060 – 1080 nm · Fixed wavelength CW pump: 532 nm · ps-resolution photon correlations measurements: g(2)(soon) · Spatio-temporal coherence measurements: g(1)(r,t) | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Spectrometers: Acton IsoPlane SCT 320, Andor Kymera 328i, Andor Shamrock 500i · Multi-channel monochromators/spectrographs · 0.015-nm resolution | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Streak camera: Optronis SC-10 · 2-ps resolution streak camera · Synchroscan for 80-Mhz laser · Single-shot triggered mode | Elena Ostrovskaya | ANU |
| Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Toroidal Analyser. Can be operated with monochromated helium light source off the synchrotron beam. Includes UHV sample preparation capabilities. Low-temperature STM (Omicron Fermi) with in situ sample transfer. | Anton Tadich | Australian Synchrotron |
| van der Waals fabrication facility: takes multiple images and constructs optical sample map - compares pictures to reference and uses contrast to identify possible thin-layer samples | Jim Hone | Columbia University |
| Nanoscale structural and electronic characterisation via STM, STS and ncAFM at 4K | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| Synchrotron-based x-ray techniques (XPS, NEXAFS, ARPES) | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| 4K non-contact (qPlus) atomic force microscope, with optical access | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| 4K scanning tunneling microscope in UHV, with optical access | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| Growth of low-dimensional organic nanostructures on surfaces. Atomic-scale structural and electronic characterisation via 4K STM, STS, ncAFM. Complementary characterisation via synchrotron based x-ray studies (photoelectron, absorption). Ultrafast pump-spectroscopy using ultrashort laser pulses. | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| Low-dimensional nanostructures and nanomaterials | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| Ultrafast laser spectroscopy | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| UHV chamber with e-beam evaporator, and low- and high-temperature effucion cells for molecular beam epitaxy, and variable-temperature (50 - 1300 K) sample manipulator | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| High-power (40 W) ytterbium laser (1028nm) generating <300 fs pulses, for single-cycle THz generation and pumping a tunable wavelength (650-16000 nm) optical parametric amplifier (<100 fs) (in progress) | Agustin Schiffrin | Monash University |
| CW pump laser, 532nm, 15 W (Spectra Physics Millennia Pro) | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| CW, stabilised,Ti:Sapphire tunable laser (Spectra Physics Matisse), 3 W, 750-870nm, dye laser conversion kit | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| EMCCD camera (Andor iXon), single photon sensitivity | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| EMCCD camera (Andor Luca) | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Laser based micropipette puller (Sutter P-2000) | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Laser scanning confocal microscope (Zeiss Pascal) on inverted microscope (Zeiss Axiovert) | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Low temperature refrigerator, -80 C | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Microbalance (Mettler), 10 µg resolution | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Motorised micromanipulators (Sutter M-285), <100nm positioning | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Photon counting system including APDs and correlator | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Portable pumping station (dry pump backed turbomolecular) with residual gas analyser | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Refrigerated centrifuge | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Vacuum Oven, 220 degree C | Kris Helmerson | Monash University |
| Experience in sample preparation capabilities | Mark Edmonds | Monash University |
| UHV low-T STM (1 Micron Fermi) | Mark Edmonds | Monash University |
| Scanning Tunnelling Microscope x 2 | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| In situ growth-films deposited through stencil mask onto pre-patterned electrodes | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| In situ growth-MBE chamber with UHV cold finger, 1T magnet | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Chemical vapour deposition furnaces. One- and three-zone furnaces, for atmospheric-pressure or low-pressure CVD growth of materials. We have used these to prepare MoS2 and WS2 monolayers. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Electron-beam lithography. Modified FEI XL-40 scanning electron microscope with NPGS for electron-beam writing. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Low temperature probe station. Sample in vacuum. Can be operated at liquid nitrogen or liquid helium temperature. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope #1: Microscope can be operated at 4.5 K, 77 K, 300 K. Magnetic field up to 1 Tesla. Capable of STM, scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), and quasi-particle interference (QPI) mapping. Five electrical contacts on sample holder (plus ground) enables resistivity and Hall effect. Some sample preparation capabilities (thermal evaporation of metals, sputtering). Optical microscope for aligning tip/sample capable of ~+/-10 micron accuracy in tip placement. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope #2: Includes molecular beam epitaxy chamber with several sources (thermal and e-beam evaporation), RHEED. LEED available on transfer chamber. Microscope can be operated at 4.5 K, 77 K, 300 K. Magnetic field up to 1 Tesla. Capable of STM, scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), and quasi-particle interference (QPI) mapping. Five electrical contacts on sample holder (plus ground) enables resistivity and Hall effect. Thin film samples can be grown by MBE on pre-existing electrodes for in situ transport measurements. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Oxford cryostat suite (arriving end of 2018) with 14 Tesla magnet, 1.5 K variable temperature insert with one axis sample rotation, 3He refrigerator with one-axis sample rotation, and 3He/4He dilution refrigerator. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Physical Property Measurement System for electrical measurements at temperatures down to 2 K and magnetic fields to 7 Tesla. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Surface modification and electronic transport:-topological Dirac semimetal Na3Bi | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Surface modification and electronic transport:-topological insulator Bi2Se3 | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Thermal evaporator for metals deposition (e.g. Cr and Au electrodes). | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| Van der Waals heterostructure fabrication. One system is operational, includes temperature controlled stage, and is capable of rotational alignment of samples in addition to three-axis translations. This system will be placed in an argon glove box soon. Another system is being developed which should be operating in 2018. | Michael Fuhrer | Monash University |
| First principles density functional theory models for atomic structure, electronic structure and chemical reactions | Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University |
| Large scale molecular dynamics simulations for morphology and chemical reactions | Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University |
| Non-equilibrium transport models | Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University |
| Tight binding models for electronic structure | Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University |
| Wannier functions based models for electronic structure, topological properties of the electronic structure | Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University |
| National Computing Infrastructure Raijin: Fujitsu Primergy and Lenovo NeXtScale high-performance, distributed-memory cluster | Nikhil Medhekar | National Computing Infrastructure |
| RMIT Micro characterization and Microscopy Facility (RMMF) | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | RMIT via the Centre for Advanced Electronics and Sensors (CADES) |
| Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | RMIT via the Centre for Advanced Electronics and Sensors (CADES) |
| Experience in electron and spin transport measurements: -electric field gated device -quantum oscillations -point contact AndreeV reflection -electrical-magneto coupling | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Photon lithography and E-beam lithography routine techniques for device fabrication | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Experience in magnetic measurements: -DC magnetometry -AC magnetometry -quantum oscillations | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| 2 glove box system for the fabrication of vdW heterostructures | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| MPMS: 7 Tesla, 1.8 K for magnetic measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| PPMS: 9 Tesla, 1.8 K for electronic transport measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Dielectric measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Electric gated transport measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Magnetoelectric coupling measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Spin orbital torque measurements | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| CVD system for the growth of nanostructure | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Home made dielectric measurement system based on PPMS | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Home made magnetoelectric coupling measurement system based on PPMS | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Home made Photo current measurement system at low temperature | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Home made spin orbit torque measurement system based on PPMS | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Magnetic Properties measurement system for magnetic measurements at low temperature up to 7 Tesla | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Physical Property Measurement System for electrical measurements at temperatures down to 2 K and magnetic fields to 9 Tesla. | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Single crystal growth Furnace | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| VdW stacking system for vdW heterostructure fabrication | Lan Wang | RMIT |
| Charge/exciton transport models in nanostructures. | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Computational models of low dimensional structures (0, 1, 2, 3D). | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Density Functional Theory | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Finite-difference solutions to the Schroedinger equation | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Kinetic Monte-Carlo for charge transport | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Master equation descriptions of dissipation and dephasing | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Mathematical and computational models of advanced spectroscopy | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Non-equilibrium Greens function transport models | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Numerical models of disorder | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Superconductivity, superconducting circuit design | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Tight-binding models | Jared Cole | RMIT |
| Existing Li-6 apparatus (p-wave, Bragg) | Chris Vale | Swinburne |
| Dy microscope (Synthetic TIs) | Chris Vale | Swinburne |
| Differential reflectance (absorption) hyperspectral imaging ·spatial resolution <500nm; ·polarization control/measurement ·electrical contacts possible | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Femtosecond transient absorption ·time resolution <20fs ·wavelength range 300nm - 950nm; ·degernerate or non-degenerate pump/probe; ·temperature down to 3K; ·spatial resolution <10um; ·electrical contacts possible; ·polarization control) | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Photoluminescence hyperspectral imaging ·spatial resolution <500nm; ·various cw pump wavelengths (410nm, 450nm, 530nm) ·polarization control/measurement ·electrical contacts possible | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Photocurrent imaging (<500nm resolution; various pump wavelengths) | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Multi-dimensional Coherent spectroscopy ·For measurement of coherent dynamics, interactions between various excitations, Homogeneous/inhomogeneous broadening, coherent Raman spectroscopy, in many different configurations | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Time resolved photoluminescence ·(different techniques for different time ranges from <20fs to ms) ·temperature down to 3K; ·spatial resolution <10um; ·electrical contacts possible; ·polarization control/measurement) | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Visible/near-IR pump THz probe (for transient conductivity measurement) | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Time domain THz spectroscopy ·can be used to measure conductivity ·single cycle THz pulse centred at 1THz ·spot size ~3mm | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Second harmonic generation imaging | Jeff Davis | Swinburne |
| Base temperature <250mK | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Beneq Atomic Layer Deposition System for dielectrics on GaAs devices. | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Electrical measurements of 2D quantum devices at ultra-low temperatures: Leiden dilution fridge with top-loading insert, temperatures from 0.1-4K, equipped with a 9-5-1 vector magnet. | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Electrical measurements of 2D quantum devices in high magnetic fields and at low temperatures: Oxford Kelvinox-400 (wet) dilution fridge, temperatures from 0.15-4K, equipped with a 15/17T magnet and 2 axis sample rotation system accurate to 0.01 degrees. | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Electrical measurements of quantum devices at ultra-low temperatures: BlueFors dilution fridge with top-loading insert, temperatures from 0.1-4K, high frequency measurement compatible, equipped with a 5-1-1 vector magnet. | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Heliox 3He cryostat with 2T magnet | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Rapid electrical characterisation of quantum devices at low temperatures | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Rapid electrical characterisation: Homebuilt 15-300 cryogen free system with 1T resistive magnet | Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Powerful workstation | Dimitrie Culcer | UNSW |
| Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques (e.g. AFM, PFM, MFM, c-AFM, STM/STS, EFM, KPFM, ... | Jan Seidel | UNSW |
| Wide variety of tools available that work at temperatures from 4-600 K, magnetic fields up to 9 T, various gas environments, under light, under strain etc., that can study electrical, mechanical, magnetic, PV properties at the micron down to atomic length scales. | Jan Seidel | UNSW |
| Oxide materials, especially ferroelectric and multiferroic materials | Jan Seidel | UNSW |
| Cary 5000 UV-Vis spectroscopy system | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| HHV ATS 500 e-beam evaporation and sputtering system | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| Heidelberg MLA100 maskless aligner | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| JEOL JSM-IT500HR/LA FE SEM with Nabity NPGS EBL and EDS function | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| PIE Scientific Tergeo 150 W plasma cleaner | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| Julabo SL-6 heating circulator | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| Sonics VCX 750 Ultrasonic Processor | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| Renishaw InVia2 micro-Raman/PL with 355, 532, and 830 nm laser; | Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | UNSW |
| Synthesis of epitaxial ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and multiferroic thin films using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| Synthesis of semiconductor thin films (GaP, etc.) using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| X-ray diffraction: D8 Discover rotating anode thin film diffractometer | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| Philips MRD materials research diffractometer | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| Pulsed laser deposition: Pascal (Japan) oxide laser molecular beam epitaxy (L-MBE) system with in-situ confocal laser microscope Neocera ultrahigh vacuum pulsed laser deposition system (semiconductors, metals, etc.) Neocera oxide pulsed laser deposition system (complex oxides such as BiFeO3, SrRuO3, PZT, etc.) | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| Rigaku SmartLab rotating anode thin film diffractometer | Nagy Valanoor | UNSW |
| Expertise in undoped electron and hole mesoscopic devices in GaAs. QED @ UNSW and SP @ Cambridge are the only ones who have developed the required fabrication techniques. | Oleh Klochan & Alex Hamilton | UNSW & Cambridge |
| Fabrication facilities at ANFF NSW node: -Cleanroom class 100: E-beam writer Raith 150TWO, SEM, ALD, Photolithography, Thermal evaporators, annealers, etc | Oleh Klochan & Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Cryogenic facilities @QED UNSW: -Four dilution fridges -helium 3 system | Oleh Klochan & Alex Hamilton | UNSW |
| Fabrication of semiconductor based mesoscopic devices and their electronic transport characterization at ultralow temperatures and high magnetic fields. | Oleh Klochan | UNSW |
| High-performance XPS: Nexsa Surface Analysis system. - detection of low concentration components, and a micro-focused spot for small feature analysis (10um to 400uc in 5um steps) - Ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy, UPS integration - Dual-mode ion source (MAGCIS) for expanded depth profiling capabilities | Xiaolin Wang | UOW |