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

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

Apart from the above, we also have

1. Chemical Synthesis Lab (Nanoparticles and host of other compounds).

2. Furnaces (Tube and Box furnaces, up to 1000 Deg. C) and we are making one to reach up to 3000 deg. C

3. Apart from the wet (liquid Helium) cryogenic system, we have closed cycles for low T measurements for some of the above

4. We also use a host of other central facilities like SQUID and many others distributed across IIT K for numerous other characterizations.

5. We are continuing to develop quite a few new other sensors whose details we shall update in due course.