Shared experimental facilities include Central Facilities operated by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN) and Shared Laboratory Facilities specific to this MRSEC. The Central Facilities are recharge centers with faculty supervisors and materials specialists who maintain equipment and train users.
The MRSEC-related Shared Laboratory Facilities are described briefly below.
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A. Magnetic Characterization Facilities
David Sellmyer, Sy-Hwang Liou, Roger KirbyThese facilities allow measurements of a broad variety of magnetic and magnetooptical properties of materials and include
1) two Quantum Design SQUID magnetometers (7 T and 5.5 T),
2) Alternating Force Gradient Magnetometer,
3) Lakeshore 9T extraction magnetometer and ac susceptometer,
4) Lakeshore vibrating sample magnetometer (300 K – 1000 K),
5) two magneto-optic Kerr spectrometers, and
6) Zeiss Axiotron Kerr-effect microscope.
B. Electron Spectroscopy Facilities
Peter DowbenThese facilities permit measurements of the spin-dependent electronic band structure of surfaces and include
1) spin-polarized inverse photoemission and angle-resolved inverse photoemission facilities at Nebraska,
2) spin-polarized photoemission and angle-resolved photoemission facilities at the Louisiana Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices synchrotron,
3) UV and soft X-ray CVD facilities, and
4) ESCA and angle-resolved XPS facilities.
C. Computational Facilities
Kirill Belashchenko, Xiao Cheng ZengBeowulf-type clusters including a 64-dual-core AMD Opteron machine and a 32-core AMD Athlon MP machine are maintained for calculations of electronic and atomic structure, spin transport, and magnetization dynamics. The computer clusters utilize high-performance communication and switching technology that allows us to perform efficient parallel computations. The available software includes state-of-the-art first-principles density functional codes, molecular dynamics, and Monte-Carlo codes, micro magnetic codes, and visualization software.
