Lab and Facilities
Our Lab
In Lab building West at ISTA we will develop a new laboratory for optical investigations of symmetry. We will combine sensitive polarimetry with low temperatures, temporal and spatial resolution, uniaxial strain, vector magnetic fields and electrical contacts. Our lab will be very flexible, allowing us the freedom to choose among a broad range of research themes, and to adapt our approach to new discoveries.
Five Newport optical tables have been installed in our laboratory. These tables will be used to develop optical setups combining femtosecond laser, optical parametric amplifier, and cryostat for optical probing of magnetic materials. The smaller tables (arranged horizontally) are magnetic, while the larger ones (arranged vertically) are non-magnetic.
Facilities
Internal
We are fortunate to be in the same building as ISTA’s state-of-the-art nanofabrication facility, which we plan to make good use of! We will use optical and Raman spectrometers, the physical property measurement system (PPMS), the focused ion beam system, and others!
External
In addition to our lab and the in-house nanofabriaction facility, we will apply for time at international synchrotrons, primarily at angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) beamlines.