Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of Cryogen-Free Magnetometer for Investigating Novel Magnetic/Superconducting Systems

授予加州大学河滨分校的这一奖项支持收购无制冷剂磁强计，以支持大量研究人员在低维磁性和超导材料和器件领域的研究。对于不断扩大的校园来说，这种共享仪器的可用性及其带来的研究对量子材料、固态化学、磁性材料和自旋电子学领域的几个系的新教师招聘起到了积极的作用。它影响了加州大学河滨分校正在进行的一系列研究项目，包括调查磁性和超导薄膜和异质结构的新性质，界面邻近耦合产生的新现象，以及磁性纳米颗粒的新应用。

This award to the University of California, Riverside supports the acquisition of a cryogen-free magnetometer to support the research of a large number of investigators in the area of low-dimensional magnetic and superconducting materials and devices. To the growing campus, the availability of this shared instrument and the research enabled by it plays a positive role in the recruitment of new faculty members in several departments in the areas of quantum materials, solid state chemistry, magnetic materials and spintronics. It also significantly contributes to the education and training of generations of graduate students, undergraduate students and postdocs, many of whom are from diverse and social-economically disadvantaged background, especially for future employment opportunities in the high technology companies specializing non-volatile random access memories, hard disk drives, magnetic sensors and actuators, and biomedical devices.The MPMS3 SQUID magnetometer is a high-sensitivity, high-throughput, and cryogen-free magnetometer that is uniquely suited for serving a large number of users. It impacts a broad range of ongoing research projects at the University of California, Riverside, including the investigation of new properties in magnetic and superconducting thin films and heterostructures, new phenomena arising from proximity coupling at interfaces, and new applications of magnetic nanoparticles. More specifically, with the unprecedented sensitivity and acquisition speed, this shared instrument enables the investigations of magnetic compensation phenomenon in ferrimagnetic thin films, spin-flop transition in antiferromagnetic thin films, two-dimensional layered magnetic materials, induced ferromagnetism in topological insulator/magnetic insulator heterostructures, layered superconducting thin films and heterostructures, magnetic nanoparticles, magnetic photonic nanostructures, and photo-induced magnetism in organic systems.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.