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Crawford Group Facilities

The Crawford group occupies 1600 square feet of newly-renovated space in two laboratories on the ground floor of Sumwalt College, home of the USC Nanocenter. The Laboratory for Picoscale Metrology, at 1000 square feet, houses 4 vibration tables (12', 10', 5' and 5' granite), a 130 fs, 2.5mJ amplified ultrafast laser, two magnetic probe stations for device testing, with 3.5 and 17 kOe magnetic fields, 40 GHz bandwidth device connections, and one with the capability for cooling devices to 26K, with a thermally-anchored transmission line. In addition, the laboratory has a magnetic recording contact write/read tester for performing magnetic recording metrology and performing picometer-scale tests on nanopositioning equipment. The ambient floor vibration measures below VC-E, making this venue the ideal location for picoscale metrology.

Amplified Ti:sapphire ultrafast laser

The Shared Instruments laboratory, at 600 square feet, houses a chemical fume hood, magnetometry (9T Quantum Design PPMS with a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) insert),a Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) looper, thin film deposition (6 target co-sputter system with attached chemical processing and etching chamber, and UHV analysis chamber), and wafer probing. These instruments are for shared use by other members of the USC NanoCenter. With flexible electical, gas, vacuum, and air distribution systems, conducting floors, and ESD-specified, grounded lab benches, these laboratories are ideal for picometer and picosecond measurements to enable new innovations in nanoelectronic devices.

Quantum Design PPMS and Shared Instruments Laboratory with fume hood

In addition, the Crawford group maintains a 50 GHz digital sampling oscilloscope, a 12 ps falltime 5V pulse generator, a 10 GS/sec 2 GHz bandwidth real time oscilloscope, and numerous lock-in amplifiers and current sources, power supplies, and voltmeters.

Sumwalt College also houses the USC NanoCenter Low Temperature Physics Laboratories of Professor Richard Webb. Adjacent to the Shared Instruments laboratory, the LTPL boasts a cleanroom with e-beam and optical lithography, thin film evaporation, sputter deposition, ion milling, and wafer characterization equipment. In addition, the LTPL has reactive ion etching (RIE) and plasma-enhanced cehcmical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) tools for MEMS/NEMS device fabrication. A 26 GHz network analyzer, wire bonders, profilometer, lock-in amplifiers, precision current sources, and four dilution refrigerators and cryostats, including a 16 T superconducting magnet, round out the LTPL capabilities. Professor Michael Myrick of the Chemistry and Biochemistry department's optical spectroscopy laboratories with oxide sputtering systems, completes the Sumwalt occupants.

In addition to these NanoCenter facilities, close by are a fully-staffed machine shop, the USC Electron Microscopy Center with its brand new JEOL high resolution STEM, the USC Graduate Sciences Research Center, home to USC Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the USC Microelectronics and Photonics Laboratory of the Electical Engineering department.

Finally, the USC NanoCenter has a large seminar room, several small conference rooms, a central office with shipping/receiving, printers, and photocopier, and a breakroom with coffeemakers and full-sized refrigerator.

Molecular Imaging PicoPlus Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM)

Contact Write/Read Tester and Optiphase Interferometer (6 pm/Rt Hz noise above 6 Hz)

Magneto-optical Kerr effect magnetometer

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