MRI: Development of an Optical Hall Effect Instrumentation for non-contact Nanostructure Electrical Characterization

0922937 SchubertU.技术综述：测量复杂的纳米结构材料和异质结构中的自由电荷载流子属性对于理解这些材料中的基本和新的物理现象变得越来越不可或缺。传统的电子霍尔效应仪器探测自由载流子性质的能力有限，特别是在非接触式、非侵入性、非破坏性且能够在空间上分辨载流子行为的工作模式下。该项目旨在开发一种操作成本低、可行、易使用、桌上型和世界唯一的光学霍尔效应仪器，用于研究磁场高达8T、温度范围从4K到300K的样品。新的开发测量了由于外部磁场中电荷位置的移位而导致的长波长光学双折射，作为波长、磁场方向和强度的函数。光学霍尔效应仪器使我们能够理解电荷和自旋输运性质，并将极大地促进我们对多铁隧道结构、磁电异质结构、铁磁和铁电聚合物结构、磁性和压电混合纳米结构以及新型太阳能电池材料和器件的理解。该仪器将由内布拉斯加-林肯大学(UNL)开发，并将在不同大学、国家实验室和从事纳米结构材料和设备电学特性的公司之间的合作中使用。该提案将把研究生和本科生的教育与基础研究和新仪器的开发相结合，并将利用NSF-MRSEC QSPIN、2 NSF-CAREE和NSF-DMR计划活动以及内布拉斯加-林肯大学内部的部门间和大学间合作。核磁共振成像的开发将促进UNL和内布拉斯加州林肯的J.A.Woollam公司之间在仪器开发方面的富有成效的合作伙伴关系，J.A.Woollam公司是世界领先的光谱椭圆偏振测量仪器制造商。莱曼摘要：由于纳米结构几何和组成的限制，纳米结构材料中电子及其正电荷对应物-空穴-的运动受到新现象的支配。对这种纳米结构中电荷性质的了解将使新材料和装置的设计具有远远超过当前技术的能力。利用比当前台式计算机时钟速度快一万倍的偏振太赫兹和远红外光在强磁场中监测电子和空穴的运动，揭示了它们的位置和性质，并可以在这种材料中探索基本的和新的物理现象。传统的方法需要电接触，而电接触很难或根本不可能连接到纳米结构上。这种新的、世界独一无二的光学霍尔效应仪器使用的频率穿透纳米结构，并在没有电接触的情况下屏蔽它们的电子和空穴特性。例如，研究用于太阳能和能源恢复应用的新型多功能纳米结构有望带来许多创新。该仪器将由内布拉斯加-林肯大学(UNL)开发，并将在不同大学、国家实验室和从事纳米结构材料和设备电学特性的公司之间的合作中使用。该提案将把研究生和本科生的教育与基础研究和新仪器的开发相结合，并促进UNL与位于内布拉斯加州林肯的J.A.Woollam公司之间富有成效的合作伙伴关系，J.A.Woollam公司是世界领先的椭圆偏振光谱仪器制造商。

0922937SchubertU. of Nebraska-LincolnTechnical Summary: Measurement of free charge carrier properties in complex nanostructure materials and heterostructures is becoming increasingly indispensible for understanding of fundamental and new physical phenomena in such materials. Traditional electrical Hall effect instruments are limited in their ability to probe the free charge carrier properties, particularly in operation modes which are contactless, non-invasive, non-destructive and yet capable of spatially resolving the charge carrier behavior. This project aims to develop a low-operation-cost, feasible, easy-to-use, desk-top-style, and world-unique Optical Hall effect instrumentation for the 0.1 to 50 Terahertz (THz) spectral region for studying samples within magnetic fields up to 8 T, and in the temperature range between 4 K and 300 K. The new development measures the transverse and longitudinal optical birefringence at long wavelengths due to displacements of charge location in an external magnetic field, as a function of wavelength, magnetic field direction, and strength. The Optical Hall effect instrument allows understanding of charge and spin transport properties, and will greatly advance our understanding of multiferroic tunnel structures, magnetoelectric heterostructures, ferromagnetic, and ferroelectric polymer structures, magnetic, and piezoelectric hybrid nanostructures and novel solar cell materials and devices, for example. The instrumentation will be developed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and will be used in collaboration between different Universities, National Laboratories and Companies working with electrical properties of nanostructure materials and devices. The proposal will integrate the education of graduate and undergraduate students with basic research and new instrumentation development, and will leverage with NSF-MRSEC QSPIN, 2 NSF-CAREER, and NSF-DMR program activities and inter-departmental and inter-collegiate collaborations within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The MRI development will promote productive partnerships for instrument development between UNL, and the J. A. Woollam Co., Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska, the world-leading manufacturer of spectroscopic ellipsometry instrumentation.Layman Summary: The motion of electrons and their positively charged counterparts - holes - in nanostructure materials is governed by new phenomena due to the confinement imposed by the nanostructure geometry and composition. Knowledge of the charge properties within such nanostructures will enable design of new materials and devices with capabilities far beyond current technology. Monitoring electron and hole motions within strong magnetic fields using polarized Terahertz and Far infrared light at frequencies up to ten thousand times faster than current desktop computer clock speed reveals their location and properties, and fundamental and new physical phenomena can be explored in such materials. Traditional methods require electrical contacts, which are difficult or simply impossible to attach to the nanostructures. The new and world-unique Optical Hall effect instrumentation employs frequencies which penetrate the nanostructures and screen their electron and hole properties without electrical contacts. Many innovations are expected from studying new multifunctional nanostructures for solar and energy restoring applications, for example. The instrumentation will be developed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and will be used in collaboration between different Universities, National Laboratories and Companies working with electrical properties of nanostructure materials and devices. The proposal will integrate the education of graduate and undergraduate students with basic research and new instrumentation development, and promote productive partnerships between UNL, and the J. A. Woollam Co., Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska, the world-leading manufacturer of spectroscopic ellipsometry instrumentation.