User Facilities

In addition to our own equipment, we do a significant amount of characterization and fabrication work in other facilities.

Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF)

The Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF) encompasses a number of facilities at Stanford, including a cleanroom with fabrication tools (UV lithography, sputtering, ion milling), x-ray lab for x-ray diffraction and reflectivity, and surface science lab for x-ray photoemission spectroscopy. Other equipment is also available for members to use.

Advanced Light Source (ALS) at LBNL

We regularly do X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD), and other measurements at beamlines 6.3.1 and 4.0.2 of the ALS, which allow us to perform element- and site-specific magnetic characterization.

Other Facilities

In addition to the above listed facilities, some other facilities we have used in recent years include:

• NIST Center for Neutron Research
• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at SLAC
• Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Lab
• National High Field Magnetic Laboratory at Los Alamos