Materials
Single crystals of novel materials
Iron-chalcogenides using chemical vapour transport
Thin flake devices
Experimental techniques
Transport and magnetotransport
Quantum oscillations
Torque magnetometry
Critical current measurements
High applied pressures
Pressure piston cells
Diamond anvil pressure cells
External strain
Elastoresistance under strain via piezostacks
Transport and magnetrotransport under uniaxial strain using a Razobill cell
High-magnetic fields
16T PPMS
15T and 21T superconducting magnets
High magnetic field facilities: Nijmegen, Toulouse, Tallahassee
Ultra-low temperatures
Helium cryostats and flow cryostat
Helium 3 Heliox system
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Diamond Light Source
First principle band-structure calculations
Wien2k
Micro tools
We use a variety of highly sensitive tools to probe the physical properties of single crystals of less than 100 microns to be investigated in high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
Piezocantilevers
Highly sensitive cantilevers (10-12 EMU) allow to determine phase transitions, anisotropy and in superconductors and magnetic materials and to measure quantum oscillations in the normal state of superconductors and other exotic metallic systems.
Microcontacs using Focus Ion Beam
Focus Ion Beam allows to build up electrical contacts on micro-size crystals to be able to measure Hall effect and in-plane conductivity in high magnetic fields and at very low temperatures.
Microcalorimetry
We have developed a new probe to investigate the specific heat of micron size single crystals as function of temperature and high magnetic fields.