Facilities in our Lab
Magneto-optical Imaging Setup
We use this for imaging local fields with a sensitivity of 10 mG in background fields of few 100 of Gauss. Currently the system operates between a 12 K to 300 K in a applied field upto 1 kG. Within the next couple of months we are looking forward to an upgrading this system to operate from much lower T and in magnetic fields of upto few tesla's.
Magneto-optical Current Imaging:
Recently we have modified the above system to enable us to perform his sensitivity electric current distribution imaging. We use the above technique to image and map the self field generated by tiny electric currents sent across the sample, which inturn help us to construct a map of the local current distribution across any material (viz., superconductors, magnetic, topological insulators, semiconducting, metals). The adjoining figures are recent publications based on our current imaging
More about the figures above can be read here
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86706-0
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.085143
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.184516
Low temperature Electrical Transport
We have a home built liquid helium based setup for doing electrical transport and noise measurements down to 3 K and in a magnetic field of 7 Tesla. The superconducting magnet is a home built design.
Non-contact mutual inductance
Frequency range: Few kHz to 10 MHz
Temperature range: 17 K to 300 K
Field range: In a few months to be made compatible with a 6 T magnet for in field measurements
Room-temperature STM
nanoREV STM from Quazar Technologies
Read some interesting applications we have developed using STM
Wire-Bonder
A commercial TPT wire bonding machine
Sputtering: Thin-film Deposition
Excel Instruments