In the School of Physics, University of Bristol
Imaging quantum materials atom by atom needs an exceptionally quiet environment. The microscope tip sits less than a nanometer above the sample, so its height must stay stable to around a picometer. Our dedicated ultralow-vibration labs are designed to suppress mechanical, acoustic and electromagnetic noise.
The lab is built on a massive concrete slab decoupled from the rest of the building. The lab is acoustically damped to block sound interference. Experiments are run from a separate control room, so the instruments operate in complete isolation.
ATLAS is our home-built dilution-refrigerator scanning tunneling microscope (STM), with magnetic fields up to 9 T.
