Quantum Materials at Ke Group

• Material synthesis facility: three 1700C box furnaces, two 1200C box furnaces, two 1100C box furnaces, one 1700C tube furnace, one 1200C tube furnace, and one 1200C two-zone tube furnace
  
  
• In-house Quantum Design PPMS integrated with multifunctional probes
  -- Cryogen free with an ever-cooling system
  -- Temperature range: 1.8 - 400 K
  -- Magnetic field: 0 ~ 9 T
  -- Helium-3 system for temperature down to 0.35 K
  -- Heat capacity option
  -- Thermal transport measurements, including thermal conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and Nernst effect
  -- ACMS option for DC magnetization and AC susceptibility measurements
  -- AC transport property measurement system
  -- Horizontal sample rotator (0 ~ 360 degree)
  -- High pressure cell (3Gpa)



• Home-built probes for ferroelectric polarization and magnetoelectric coupling measurements
  


• Shared Facilities
  -- Quantum Design SQUID
  -- W. M. Keck Microfabrication Facility
  -- Composite Materials & Structures Center
  


• National Laboratory Facilities
  -- Neutron Scattering Facilities
  High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
  Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France
  Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Berlin, Germany
  ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in United Kingdom
  
  -- Synchrotron Facilities
  Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory
  Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory