Equipment Specifications and User Manuals

Instrument Temperature Range Field Range Calendar | Manual
       
Vibrating Sample Magnetometers (VSM)      
Princeton Measurements micro-VSM (hot) (temporarily offline) room temp - 1025K 0 - 1.7 T1 Calendar | Manual (PDF)
Princeton Measurements micro-VSM (cold) (room T only due to helium shortage) 10K - 473K 0 - 1.7 T1 Calendar | Manual (PDF)
Lake Shore VSM 8600 78K - 950K (SSVT); 308K - 1,273K (furnace) 0 - 3 T1 Calendar | Manual
       
Magnetic Properties Measurement System (MPMS)      
MPMS-XL ("Big Red") (offline due to helium shortage) 2K - 400K

DC: 0 - 5 T

AC: 0.01 - 0.35 mT; 0.1 - 1,000 Hz

Calendar | Manual (PDF)
MPMS3 ("SQUID-VSM")

1.8K - 400K; 300K - 1000K (furnace)

DC: 0 - 7 T

AC: 0.01 - 1 mT; 0.1 - 1,000 Hz

Calendar
       
Susceptometers/Susceptibility Bridges      
MFK1-FA   Susceptibility Bridge with CS4 Furnace (AGICO) room temp - 975K 200 - 700 A/m
976 - 15,616 Hz
Calendar |  Manual (PDF)
High-Temp Susceptibility Bridge (KappaBridge) room temp - 975K ~0.38 mT AC Calendar | Manual (PDF)
MAGNON VFSM (variable frequency) room temperature  0.025 - 0.5 mT AC Calendar | Manual
       
Superconducting Rock Magnetometers (2G)      
Track system for U-channel cores (or discrete samples)4 (DC SQUID) room temperature  0 - 0.3 mT DC
0 - 170 mT AC
Calendar | Manual (PDF)
       
Magnetizers / demagnetizers      
Alternating-field demagnetizer with pARM device room temperature  0 - 0.2 mT DC  
Thermal demagnetizer room temp - 973K --  
Furnace with TRM coil room temp - 973K 0 - 0.2 mT  
Paleointensity furnace with optional controlled atmosphere (ASC) room temp - 973K 0 - 0.3 mT CalendarManual (PDF)
Pulse magnetizer (ASC) room temperature 5.5 cm coil: 0 - 1.2 T
6.5 mm coil: 0 - 9 T
 
Core pulse magnetizer (2G) room temperature 0 - 1 T  
       
Mössbauer Spectrometers      
EES Co. MS4 20K - room temperature -- Calendar | Manual
EES Co. MS6 1.5K - room temperature 0 - 6.5 T Calendar | Manual
       
Magnetic Microscopy      
Magnetic Force Microscope (MFM)     Manual (PDF)
Quantum Diamond Microscope (coming soon!)      
Optical Microscopes      

 

1 Maximum field depends on pole gap; measuring large samples may decrease maximum field.
2 Low-temperature VSM converts to AGFM. Only one may be used at a time.
3 While the AGFM can be used at low temperature, any benefits over the VSM in signal-to-noise ratio become smaller with decreasing temperature.
4 This magnetometer system has in-line ARM and and off-line IRM capabilities.

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