About the Facility
About the Facility
The Physical Properties Facility houses equipment for measuring and manipulating the magnetic moment. The facility boasts a DynaCool PPMS, the latest generation Physical Property Measurement System from Quantum Design. Other equipment includes an MPMS squid magnetometer, which offers advanced performance in all areas of magnetometry, and a 4.5 T magnetic annealing system for sample modification. The system combines high temperature annealing with a high magnetic field to potentially modify the magnetic properties of thin films and alloys. It uses high-temperature exchange interactions to induce new magnetic properties and/or to control crystal growth. Also, the facility provides easy access to liquid nitrogen to various research groups in NCMN, MRSEC, and other groups at UNL, such as the athletic department.
Cryogenics are vital and used by research groups for many purposes. Several superconducting magnets require a significant amount of liquid helium and liquid nitrogen, and many high-vacuum systems and detectors use liquid nitrogen. Also, cryogenics are used in various experiments to measure materials' properties at low temperatures. All undergraduates and graduate students involved in low-temperature measurement and vacuum systems use the facility. This facility enables our research in magnetism and magnetic materials, nanoelectronics, solid-state chemistry, and related areas. It is thus an integral part of NCMN’s research portfolio.
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Acknowledgment Text
Agencies, including the NSF and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, providing partial support of our Nebraska Nanoscale Facilities and Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Facilities, require that the following words be included at the end of any Acknowledgment section of a paper in which experimental work was done in NNF-NCMN facilities:
"The research was performed in part in the Nebraska Nanoscale Facility: National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (and/or NERCF), which are supported by the National Science Foundation under Award ECCS: 2025298, and the Nebraska Research Initiative."