We’ve had some more UHV fun together this week, loading the first source materials into the system. This means breaking the vacuum of the MBE system and loading pure pieces of the raw elements that we will use to grow oxide films. We’ve combined the classics with a few surprises,  stay tuned

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Cutting chunks of the element Lanthanum so they could fit our crucible

Looking down into a crucible containing pieces of Titanium. We will evaporate this material at >1600C

Looking heads on into an MBE effusion source (and its cooling jacket)

The element Barium in its high-purity form, sealed in a glass tube filled with Argon. This material oxidizes in air within minutes and must be loaded into vacuum quickly

The Oxide Electronics team (in partial attendance) standing proud after the system is back in vacuum

We’ve had a great two weeks hosting Dan from Veeco and putting our system together. Stay tuned for more

Dana (L) and Maria (R) are securing a high-temperature effusion source

Dana and Lior are closing the flange of an effusion source during system installation

Dan and Maria inspecting the growth chamber

Congrats Aviv & Haim for completing their EE undergraduate project at the Oxide Electronics Lab !

March 2017

Congratulations to Dana for presenting her poster and completing her undergraduate project, the first of its kind in the group.

March 2017

Maria and Lior perform acceptance testing on our new MBE system at Veeco Instruments’ facility in St. Paul, MN. It was a great pleasure to meet Veeco’s team and learn what the system can do from the people who designed it.

The tests were successful and we’re excited to be installing the country’s first oxide MBE system in a few months from now.

The Technion’s Oxide MBE, a Veeco GENxplor, during acceptance testing in St. Paul

Heating up a high temp effusion cell

Dr. Baskin is inspecting our effusion cells from the top viewports