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• General Spintronics Lab orientation
• PPMS instrument overview and gallery of data
• PPMS base system description (magnetic field, temperature, sample chamber)
• To request training on either MPMS-3 or PPMS: download this questionnaire , fill it out and email it to ndilley@purdue.edu.

• ETO Training

  • Sample mounting / Setting up measurements

  • Interpreting the data

  • Quantum Design training seminars (longer)

    • Transport part 1: theory of operation
    • Transport part 2: experiment design
    • Transport part 3: interpreting the data

• FastHall M91 Training

  • seminar on FastHall from LakeShore: 

• Use Case Examples (users, please contribute to these!)

  • Si Hall mobility.pdf : example of Hall effect and van der Pauw resistivity measurements to determine mobility of p-type silicon.

  • ETO Training Report_Cadiente.pdf :  using ETO to measure superconducting Tc and Hc2 of Nb metal film.

  • Also: see example sequence folder C:\Qddynacool\Sequence\Example sequences to get you started

• References

  • Video: principles of lock-in amplifiers
  • ETO User's Manual
  • PPMS Rotator User's Manual
  • LakeShore FastHall M91 User's Manual
  • Keithley Low Level Measurements Handbook, 7th Edition

  • van der Pauw paper_1958.pdf

  • The hall effect and its applications_Putley_1975.pdf

• Training

  • Introduction to FMR : Application Note from QD
  • Purdue notes on CryoFMR: important guidelines for using FMR on the DynaCool, please read!

• Use Case Examples (users, please contribute to these!)

  • Setting up FMR on a new material: estimating FMR resonance frequencies based on SQUID data of this sample
  • Datasheet NiFe reference sample 2016-10-26.pdf

• References

  • FMR User's Manual

  • Broadband stripline FMR of FM films etc_Maksymov_2015.pdf
  • Measuring Inverse Spin Hall effect in PPMS 1087-203.pdf
  • Purdue IEEE Seminar, Justin Shaw (NIST) : Broadband FMR spectroscopy for understanding spin-orbit phenomena

• Training

  • Quantum Design training seminars

    • Theory of operation

    • Sample mounting

    • Interpreting the data

  • QD newsletter: How to Get the Most Out of Your Quantum Design VSM

• Use Case Examples (users, please contribute to these!)

  • Also: see example sequence folder C:\Qddynacool\Sequence\Example sequences to get you started

• References

  • VSM User's Manual

• Training

  • Quantum Design training seminars
    • Theory of operation
    • Sample mounting / setting up measurements
    • Interpreting the data 

• Use Case Examples (users, please contribute to these!)

  • Also: see example sequence folder C:\Qddynacool\Sequence\Example sequences to get you started

• References

  • TTO User's Manual

• Training

  • Quantum Design training seminars
    • Theory of operation
    • Sample mounting / setting up measurements
    • Interpreting the data 

• Use Case Examples (users, please contribute to these!)

  • heat capacity of pure Au shot at low temperatures in fields up to 9 tesla
    • this demonstrated that heat capacity of Au is not field dependent and follows published data (Martin), which verifies the accuracy of our magnetoresistance correction of the Cernox on the heat capacity chip
    • report from Mohan Neupane (Arnab Banerjee lab, PHYS): Gold lowT HeatCap in field Pk3091.pdf
    • data from the run: gold HC and addenda.zip and the .cal file for puck 3091 that was used: Puck3091.cal

  • Also: see example sequence folder C:\Qddynacool\Sequence\Example sequences to get you started

• References

  • Heat Capacity User's Manual
  • review paper: Lashley et al. (2003) "Critical Examination of Heat Cap in QD PPMS"
  • Magnetoresistance of Cernox thermometers at low Temperatures (RSI, 1999)

• LabVIEW and .NET integration with PPMS
  • LabVIEW example programs for DynaCool integration
• List of electronics on the rolling rack
  • Manuals for SMUs on the rack by DynaCool
• PPMS sample chamber properties
• Multi-function probe (MFP) user diagrams
• Table for proper connections for MFP measurements: MFP sample-to-switchbox wiring.rtf