Laboratory of Theoretical and Experimental Superconductive Tunnelling

Equipments

Oxford^TM ⁴He cryostat with variable temperature insert (between 1.5 K and 300 K) equipped with:

- superconducting magnet (maximum field = 11 Tesla)

- He recovery system with 3 membrane pumps, He level meter, temperature controller, AC power booster

- Cryomech^TM pulse-tube ⁴He recondenser

- cryogenic inserts for:

	a) resistance/resistivity/Hall effect measurements
	b) "soft" point contact spectroscopy
	c) point-contact and tunnel specroscopy in the "needle-anvil" configuration, with movable tip
	d) field-effect measurements at low temperature
	e) AC susceptibility

Cryomech^TM pulse-tube cryocooler for transport and field-effect measurements down to 2.7 K

ITECO Engineering^TM dry box for handling of air-sensitive samples, with stereomicroscope, hot plate, stirrer, UV lamp for photopolymerization

Chamber for physical vapour deposition of films (evaporative deposition) with pressure gauges and thermal desorption system

DME^TM Rasterscope Scanning tunnel microscope / Atomic force microscope for morphological / electrical surface characterizaion at room temperature and in air

Bruker^TM Innova Scanning probe microscope for advanced surface characterization. Available SPM modes: contact mode, tapping mode, Phase Imaging, Lateral Force microscopy, Nano-indentation, Force Spectroscopy, Force Modulation Microscopy, Nano Thermal Analysis and Scanning Thermal Microscopy.

3 Complete equipments for high-precision electrical measurements (sourcemeters, current/voltage sources, nanovoltmeters, DMMs, Lock-in, microwave power source)

LaTEST - Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino
corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (TO) - Italy