Our AFM lab hosts one ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) Raman and photoluminescence-coupled variable temperature atomic force microscope usually working at 1.1 MHz (Raman MHz VT-AFM) and one time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with a 1 Kelvin atomic force microscope (ToF-MS 1K AFM). The systems feature shadow-mask evaporation and low-temperature transport capabilities and complementary techniques. The ToF-MS routinely works in a temperature programmed desorption (TPD-MS) modality up to 1400 K, and with complementary Mg/Al X-ray desorption ionization (XDI-MS) or 337 nm laser desorption ionization (LDI-MS) units.

A 'coincidence' (aka 'super-resolution') time-of-flight two-photon photoemission electron microscope (2PPE ToF-PEEM) system is being built in lab 0116, in close collaboration with the Optical Physics division of the Institute of Physics and with the School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Our optical and device lab is currently hosted in an open facility for high resolution optical microscopy and probe station measurements under vacuum.