Experimental Skills

• Preparation of materials - DC and RF-Magnetron Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Spin Coating, Arc melting, Sol-Gel and solid-state reaction method

• Device fabrication - Optical and electron beam lithography

• Magnetization and transport measurements - VSM, MPMS, SQUID-VSM, Resistivity and Hall effect using PPMS, Heat capacity measurements using PPMS

• Microscopic Measurements - Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Raman Spectroscopy

• Diffraction experiments - X-ray diffraction (XRD), Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED), Synchrotron diffraction and Neutron diffraction