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<metadesc>Coherent X-ray Science Group facilities furnished by research grants awarded to Marcus Newton. </metadesc>
 
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=== CXS Laboratory ===
 
  
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=== X-ray Diffraction Imaging Laboratory ===
  
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The X-ray Diffraction Imaging (XRDI) system consists of a Rigaku MicroMax-007 rotating anode x-ray generator that generates x-rays with a wavelength of 1.54 Å (Cu anode) and  focuses x-rays down to a diameter of 0.075 mm.  X-ray are imaged with a Dectris Eiger2 area detector that is capable of single photon counting and can operate at high frequency. This setup is ideally suited for nanoscale crystal structure determination and streamlined sample preparation for advanced lens-less X-ray imaging techniques such as [[Research#Coherent Diffraction Imaging | Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging]] (BCDI) as performed at synchrotron facilities such as the Diamond Light Source.
  
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Oxides with strong electron correlation, play an increasingly important role in current condensed matter physics due to their intriguing interplay of spin-, charge-, and orbital ordering superimposed with lattice interactions. Single layers, heterostructures and superlattices of different materials such as cuprates, manganites, cobaltates, titanates and vanadates are at the core. Pulsed Laser Deposition techniques (PLD) are used as standard method.
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=== Nanofabrication Centre ===
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The sample preparation room is equip with a fume cupboard that houses a spin coater, sonic bath, hot plate and weighing scale.  There is also an optical microscope with micromanipulator for sample inspection and manipulation.
  
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=== Synthesis Laboratory ===
  
The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre is a state-of-the-art facility for microfabrication and high-spec nanofabrication, as well as a wide range of characterisation capabilities housed in the new Mountbatten Complex at the University of Southampton. One of the premiere cleanrooms in Europe, the Centre has a uniquely broad range of technologies, combining traditional and novel top down fabrication with state-of-the-art bottom up fabrication. This allows us to develop and produce a wide range of devices in diverse fields such as electronics, nanotechnology and bionanotechnology and incorporate them into an equally comprehensive array of nano and microsystems for analysis and use. The characterisation capability is similarly extensive catalogue of microscopes and test gear, from nanometre resolution scanning microscopes to electrical, magnetic and RF analysis.
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=== Iridis ===
 
  
Iridis is the University of Southampton's Major high performance computing facilityIt boasts an 250 TeraFlops of computer performance.  Currently in it's fourth generation, Iridis is the most powerful university-based supercomputer in England and the third largest academic supercomputing facility in the UK. Iridis4 is ranked in the top ten of the UK’s elite supercomputers. The facility is powered by IBM® Intelligent Cluster solutions and includes Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors, which can take control of some of the most demanding mathematical calculations to significantly increase its processing power. The Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors are each capable of running at one teraflop, (one trillion calculations per second).  
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The CXS Synthesis laboratory is primarily used for the synthesis of nanometre scale crystals and device structuresPulsed laser deposition (PLD) permits the synthesis of complex transition metal-oxide materials such as vanadates, cuprates and manganites as thin films or as heterostructures. Our laboratory houses a 248 nm KrF excimer laser for pulsed laser deposition and laser-assisted fabrication. The laboratory is also equip with two thermal vacuum tube furnaces and various gases for nanoscale crystal synthesis via thermal CVD.
  
 
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=== Diamond Light Source ===
 
 
 
 
 
The Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. The facility is used by over 3,000 academic and industrial researchers across a wide range of disciplines including structural biology, energy, engineering, nanoscience and environmental sciences.
 

Latest revision as of 15:39, 4 June 2024



Facilities:

X-ray Diffraction Imaging Laboratory

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The X-ray Diffraction Imaging (XRDI) system consists of a Rigaku MicroMax-007 rotating anode x-ray generator that generates x-rays with a wavelength of 1.54 Å (Cu anode) and focuses x-rays down to a diameter of 0.075 mm. X-ray are imaged with a Dectris Eiger2 area detector that is capable of single photon counting and can operate at high frequency. This setup is ideally suited for nanoscale crystal structure determination and streamlined sample preparation for advanced lens-less X-ray imaging techniques such as Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging (BCDI) as performed at synchrotron facilities such as the Diamond Light Source.

Sample Preparation Room

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The sample preparation room is equip with a fume cupboard that houses a spin coater, sonic bath, hot plate and weighing scale. There is also an optical microscope with micromanipulator for sample inspection and manipulation.

Synthesis Laboratory

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The CXS Synthesis laboratory is primarily used for the synthesis of nanometre scale crystals and device structures. Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) permits the synthesis of complex transition metal-oxide materials such as vanadates, cuprates and manganites as thin films or as heterostructures. Our laboratory houses a 248 nm KrF excimer laser for pulsed laser deposition and laser-assisted fabrication. The laboratory is also equip with two thermal vacuum tube furnaces and various gases for nanoscale crystal synthesis via thermal CVD.