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Facilities

Our primary facilities include:

  • The measurement lab
    • BlueFors LD250 dilution refrigerator, 12 T solenoid magnet, ~7 mK base temperature
    • Oxford Teslatron variable-temperature cryostat, 12 T solenoid magnet, 1.4 K base temperature
    • Park NX7 atomic force microscope adapted for scanning van der Waals microscopy
  • The fab lab
    • HQ Graphene fully motorized 2D crystal assembly system
    • Nikon LV150 optical microscope
    • High-vacuum annealer furnace
    • Spinner and wet bench

We use the Toronto Nanofabrication Centre and the University of Waterloo Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility to carry out nanofabrication process, with help from collaborators at the McMaster University Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy.

BlueFors LD250
BlueFors LD250
Oxford Teslatron
Oxford Teslatron
HQ Graphene fully motorized 2D crystal assembly system
HQ Graphene fully motorized 2D crystal assembly system
HQ Graphene fully motorized 2D crystal assembly system
HQ Graphene fully motorized 2D crystal assembly system
Park NX7 Atomic Force Microscope
Park NX7 Atomic Force Microscope
Park NX7 Atomic Force Microscope
Park NX7 Atomic Force Microscope
Workshop AFM
Workshop AFM
Home-built high-vacuum annealing furnace
Home-built high-vacuum annealing furnace
Chemical fume hood and spin coater
Chemical fume hood and spin coater
Fully motorized Nikon high-power inspection microscope
Fully motorized Nikon high-power inspection microscope
Nikon zoom inspection microscope
Nikon zoom inspection microscope
CoreAFM: atomic force microscope (undergraduate labs)
CoreAFM: atomic force microscope (undergraduate labs)
Raith EBPG 5000+ Electron Beam Lithography System (TNFC)
Raith EBPG 5000+ Electron Beam Lithography System (TNFC)
Angstrom Nexdep Electron Beam Evaporator
Angstrom Nexdep Electron Beam Evaporator
Oxford PlasmaPro 100 Cobra ICP-RIE (TNFC)
Oxford PlasmaPro 100 Cobra ICP-RIE (TNFC)
Oxford Instruments PlasmaPro Estrelas100 DRIE System (TNFC)
Oxford Instruments PlasmaPro Estrelas100 DRIE System (TNFC)

Our measurement lab is up and running! Our cryostats enable us to measure electronic phenomena down to 10-2 K and in magnetic fields up to 12 T. In these extreme conditions, we will search for new physics and seek to understand what drives electronic ground states in a variety of 2D systems.

Renovations