Facilities
Welcome to Quantum Materials Epitaxy Laboratory
Facilities
Preparation of Novel Quantum Materials
Top-Down approaches
* Mechanical exfoliation
* Liquid assisted exfoliation
Bottom-Up approaches
Thin film growth
Chemical Vapor Deposition
* Sputtering
* Ebeam Evaporation
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Custom-designed MBE system compatible to evaporate eleven different materials simultaneously onto a substrate heated up to 1300 °C
A custom-designed CVD system with multi-heat zones and multiple precursor bubblers for high vapor pressure materials, developed in collaboration with Professor Kalyan.
Characterization Facilities
* Surface Morphology
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM)
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
* Optical properties
Photoluminescence
Raman Spectroscopy
Optical Absorption and Reflectivity
Ellipsometry
* Structural Properties
X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
X-ray Reflectivity (XRR)
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
* Electrical and Magnetic Properties
Physical Properties Measurement System (9T Quantum Design)
Magnetic Properties Measurement System (SQUID Quantum Design)
* Composition
EDX
* Clean room device fabrication
* All the above complementary tools are available within IIT G
The XPS system, donated by JNCASR Bangalore, enables in-situ spectroscopy studies on atomically thin epitaxial layers grown by the MBE system, connected via a UHV manual transfer arm.