AMaChaS · Advanced Material Characterisation System
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-07-25 → 2024-07-24
- EU contribution
- €172,932
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Advanced Material Characterisation System
Advanced Material Characterization Systems (AMaChaS) is a multidisciplinary project combining cutting-edge nanofabrication, materials growth, advanced soft x-ray holography, and transmission synchrotron microscopies for investigating materials with fundamental and technological relevance. It provides advances both at the level of nanoscale materials preparation as well as the characterization techniques, by enabling experiments on high-quality materials in a form that is not available today and pushing soft x-ray holography nanoscale spatial resolution. The project demonstrates a novel bottom-up path for developing nano-patterned membrane platforms for FM, FE and SC materials. This enables the state-of-the-art materials preparation for high-resolution transmission x-ray and electron microscopies, allowing studies of a broad class of relevant materials in an unprecedented high-quality form and unperturbed state. We have investigated the magnetic materials FeGeTe, CrI3, CrTe2 and CFO using soft X-ray holography and coherent diffraction imaging to resolve non-collinear nanoscale magnetic domain configurations. The instrumentation at BOREAS scattering endstation (ALBA Synchrotron) enables to image with high resolution approaching 20 ~ 30 nm on such materials, as results demonstrate, at low temperatures and high fields. AMaChaS Project is important for the following research fields: • Magnetism and Quantum materials community at national and international level • Fundamental research in magnetic materials • Study of magnetism in air-sensitive materials • Reinforces ongoing collaborations • Coherent imaging community • ALBA II: Holography and CDI experiments are relevant for the future of the scattering/imaging program given the upgrade facility as a low-emittance machine
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Project objective
Advanced Material Characterisation System is a multidisciplinary project combining cutting-edge nano fabrication, materials growth and advanced x-ray synchrotron techniques for the investigation of materials with fundamental and technological relevance. Its aim is to provide advances both at the level of nanoscale materials preparation as well as the characterisation techniques, enabling experiments on high quality materials in a form that is not available today, pushing the nanoscale spatial resolution. First goal: To develop the know-how in nanofabrication of sample-integrated holography-masks for x-ray holography. It also provides novel ideas to perfect and refine the processes to push the technique ultimate resolution. Lens-less coherent x-ray imaging is considered as one enclosing the biggest potential suitable to investigate specimens from solid state materials for solar, batteries or spintronic technologies to applied materials such as polymers or biological matter. Second goal: The project proposes to develop a novel bottom-up path for obtaining epitaxial single crystalline membranes of ferromagnetic, ferroelectric and superconducting materials. Such process will combines ultimate clean-room processing, focused-ion beam nano-fabrication, and most advanced growth of materials by molecular beam epitaxy & pulsed laser deposition. This will enable to advance the state-of-the-art of materials for high-resolution transmission x-ray and electron microscopies, allowing studies of a broad class of relevant materials in an unprecedented high-quality form and unperturbed state. This project provides a unique opportunity to broad the knowledge and career skills of the MSCA candidate, which will coordinate and lead the efforts of the different researchers and centers involved in this synergic collaboration in the Scientific Cluster (BNC-b) and the UAB Campus of Excellence surrounding ALBA synchrotron facility.
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Participants
- CONSORCIO PARA LA CONSTRUCCION EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL LABORATORIO DE LUZ SINCROTRON · Cerdanyola Del Valles BarcelonaCoordinatorSpain
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