Instrumentation for research & teaching

In July 2019 a state-of-the-art table-top compact Scanning Electron Microscope COXEM EM-30, equipped with detectors for secondary and backscattering electrons has been acquired and installed at the Solid State Physics Laboratory of the Physics Department. It is currently employed to introduce students to electron microscopy techniques in curricular classes, as well as within the thesis activities of Bsc and Master students in Physics and Materials Science carried within WP1a.

Instrumentation for research

The installation of an ion implanter is currently in progress at the Solid State Physics Laboratory of the Physics Department. The technical specifications of the machine will be finalized by the end of 2019, and will be followed by the commissioning the accelerator, which will be expected to be fully operational by the Summer of 2020. The ion accelerator will be equipped with a negative ion Cs sputter source, a 100 kV acceleration stage, two irradiation beamlines including a dedicated end station embedded in a cleanroom environment. The implanter will enable the modification and functionalization of the electronic, optical and structural properties of solid state materials and semiconductor wafers with sizes up to 4”. The implementation of low dose implantation procedures will open the path towards the controlled fabrication of devices quantum technologies based on individual dopants in diamond, silicon carbide and other wide band-gap materials.