Custom Ultra-high-vacuum “suitcase” for the safe transfer of air-sensitive quantum materials and structures

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This proposal is for the purchase of a custom-made ultra-high vacuum sample-transport system, or “vacuum suitcase”. This device will allow easy, reliable, and secure transfer between the key experimental facilities that propel the quantum material effort at UBC, where surfaces and heterostructures of these novel materials are prepared with atomic precision. In addition to the Quantum Materials and Devices Foundry (QMDF) where films and heterostructures are grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), this include extremely surface sensitive techniques to study their momentum- and atomically-resolved electronic structure, such as Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) in Damascelli’s Quantum Materials Laboratory (QML), Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in Bonn and Burke’s LAIR facility, or Sawatzky’s newly funded Quantum Materials Electron Microscopy Centre. A key role will be played also by the UBC beamlines at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), i.e. the Quantum Materials Spectroscopic Center for spin-ARPES and the Resonant Elastic and Inelastic X-Ray Spectroscopy beamline.