MRI: Acquisition of Magento-optical-high-frequency cryogen free probe station for research and education

MRI：采购 Magento 光学高频无冷冻剂探针台用于研究和教育

• 批准号: 2215937
• 负责人: Uttam Singisetti
• 金额: $ 24.27万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Magento; optical; frequency

Probe station is an essential scientific instrument used by scientists and engineers to test and measure new materials and devices. This major research instrumentation project will acquire a high-performance closed cycle liquid cryogen free low temperature probe station with electrical, magnetic, optical and high frequency probing capabilities for high impact research and STEM education at the University at Buffalo (UB). The state-of-the-art tool with several unique technical features will immensely improve the research infrastructure at UB. The tool will have broad impact with usage from faculties, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs at UB and other institutes in the western New York region (WNY). The unique feature of the tool is the ability to simultaneously probe magneto-optical-electrical properties across a wide range of temperatures (5 K to 500K). The salient technical features of the tool will enable high impact research in a broad range of fields spanning engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology. The unique features of the tool are the ability to probe materials and devices with magneto-electrical, magneto-RF, electro-optical, magneto-RF-optical signals and combinations thereof. These features are necessary for innovative research in materials and devices for quantum information science, 5G and beyond communications and next generation energy technologies. Furthermore, the tool will enable probing the fundamental science and chemistry of emergent materials and interfaces opening the avenues for new knowledge. Undergraduate and graduate students in the engineering and science discipline at UB and across WNY region will have access and training to the tool through courses and programs offered by various engineering and science departments at UB. The tool will have positive effect across a wide range of topics of current national focus on maintaining US leadership. These include semiconductors, quantum information science, 5G and beyond communication, clean energy technologies. The research opportunity given to undergraduate and graduate students will help build the skills of the future workforce and maintain the economic competitiveness of the US. The tool will be incorporated into and managed by the shared instrumentation and equipment portal at UB providing easy access to both academic and industrial users. The strong outreach programs underway at UB will also use this facility. Probe stations are essential tools for engineers and scientists to investigate fundamental science through convenient, fast, repeatable measurements of electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of materials and devices producing consistent results. They are versatile, flexible but more importantly easy, fast to use research platforms that can be used by multiple researchers in electronics, photonics, engineering, materials science, physics, and chemistry departments. The unique features of the tool are the ability to probe materials and devices with magneto-electrical, magneto-RF, electro-optical, magneto-RF-optical signals and combinations thereof. The tool will enable research in a broad range of topics: low power non-volatile high speed magneto-electric based logic and memory devices for energy efficient data intensive computing applications; next generation RF and power devices using ultawidebandgap semiconductors; tunnel FETs and cold electron transistors based on emerging 2-D materials; high power flexible electronics based on widebandgap semiconductors; room temperature mid-infrared (MIR)/THz devices based on coupling of optical phonons in III-V semiconductors to graphene plasmonic structures; understanding of the fundamental physics in correlated electron systems using noise spectroscopy; high temperature superconductors for quantum information science and characterization of 2-D materials, heterointerfaces, and devices. These high impact research have applications that range from computing, communication, and energy. It will also help in understanding fundamental physics in the 2-D magnets and polar molecules. The proposed tool to be acquired will have high vertical magnetic fields, with DC, optical and RF probing capabilities. These unique features are essential to conduct the proposed research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

探针台是科学家和工程师用来测试和测量新材料和新器件的重要科学仪器。这个主要的研究仪器项目将获得一个高性能的封闭循环无液体制冷剂低温探针站，具有电，磁，光和高频探测能力，用于布法罗大学（UB）的高影响力研究和STEM教育。具有几个独特技术功能的最先进的工具将极大地改善UB的研究基础设施。该工具将产生广泛的影响，从教师，研究人员，学生和企业家在UB和其他机构在西部纽约地区（WNY）的使用。该工具的独特之处在于能够在很宽的温度范围内（5 K至500 K）同时探测磁光电特性。该工具的突出技术特征将使工程，物理，化学，材料科学和生物学等广泛领域的高影响力研究成为可能。该工具的独特功能是能够用磁电、磁RF、电光、磁RF光信号及其组合探测材料和器件。这些特性对于量子信息科学、5G及以后通信和下一代能源技术的材料和设备的创新研究是必要的。此外，该工具将能够探索新兴材料和界面的基础科学和化学，为新知识开辟道路。在UB和整个WNY地区的工程和科学学科的本科生和研究生将通过UB的各个工程和科学部门提供的课程和计划获得和培训该工具。该工具将在当前国家关注的广泛议题上产生积极影响，以保持美国的领导地位。其中包括半导体、量子信息科学、5G及更远的通信、清洁能源技术。给予本科生和研究生的研究机会将有助于培养未来劳动力的技能，并保持美国的经济竞争力。该工具将被纳入UB的共享仪器和设备门户网站并由其管理，为学术和工业用户提供方便。UB正在进行的强大的外展计划也将使用该设施。探针台是工程师和科学家研究基础科学的重要工具，通过方便，快速，可重复测量材料和设备的电，光和磁特性，产生一致的结果。它们是多功能的，灵活的，但更重要的是容易，快速使用的研究平台，可用于多个研究人员在电子，光子学，工程，材料科学，物理和化学部门。该工具的独特功能是能够用磁电、磁RF、电光、磁RF光信号及其组合探测材料和器件。该工具将使研究范围广泛的主题：低功率非易失性高速磁电基逻辑和存储器件的能源效率的数据密集型计算应用;下一代射频和功率器件使用超宽带隙半导体;隧道场效应晶体管和冷电子晶体管的基础上新兴的2-D材料;高功率柔性电子的基础上宽带隙半导体;基于III-V族半导体中光学声子与石墨烯等离子体结构耦合的室温中红外（MIR）/THz器件;使用噪声光谱学理解相关电子系统中的基本物理;用于量子信息科学的高温超导体以及2-D材料、异质界面和器件的表征。这些高影响力的研究具有从计算，通信和能源的应用范围。它还将有助于理解二维磁体和极性分子的基本物理学。拟议收购的工具将具有高垂直磁场，具有直流、光学和射频探测能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。