Facilities
Cryogenic fluids production facilities
- 4He liquefaction facility with distribution, recovery and purification systems.
- N2 liquefaction facility with distribution system.
Single crystals and thin films growing facilities
- Single-crystal growing systems: two-zone, mirror image, and Bridgman furnaces.
- Sputtering thin film growing system.
- Resistive furnaces with controlled atmosphere up to 1700ºC.
- High-pressure furnace, up to 200 atm and 1100ºC.
- Arc and melt-spinning furnaces
- Controlled deoxygenation system for perovskite materials
- Gas extraction hoods.
Physical properties characterization equipment
- Physical properties: magnetization, high-sensitivity ac susceptibility, capacitive dilatometry, adiabatic and relaxation calorimetry, Hall-probe local magnetometry, electrical resistivity and angle-dependent magnetotransport, thermopower.
- Quantum Design MPMS-5 and Cryogenics S700X-R SQUID Magnetometers.
- Bitter magnetic decoration chamber.
- Room-temperature STM head.
- He4 Dewar systems with superconducting magnets up to 18 Tesla.
- Pulse-tube and Gifford-McMahon closed-cycle refrigerators.
- 1 Tesla rotable electromagnets with fine angular control.
- He3 and He4 cryostats for magnetic, thermal and transport properties measurements in applied magnetic fields.
- Leiden Cryogenics plastic dilution refrigerator.
- Bridgman and piston-cylinder pressure cells.
- Preparation facilities: Optical microscopes, soldering stations, sputtering coater, centrifuge, low-speed diamond saw, high-vacuum pumps, He leak detector, etc.
- Electronic instrumentation: lock-in, oscilloscope, power supplies, amplifiers, nanovoltmeters, multimeters, current sources, electrometer, sourcemeter, etc. Measurement computers with acquisition interfaces.
- Workshop: lathe, milling machine, CNC milling machine, TIG welding, soldering and brazing equipment.