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

探测站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。该重大研究仪器项目将获得一个高性能闭式循环无液冷低温探测站，具有电、磁、光和高频探测能力，用于布法罗大学（UB）的高影响研究和STEM教育。最先进的工具具有几个独特的技术特点，将极大地改善UB的研究基础设施。该工具将对布法罗大学和纽约西部地区（WNY）其他研究所的教师、研究人员、学生和企业家的使用产生广泛影响。该工具的独特之处在于能够在很宽的温度范围内（5k至500K）同时探测磁光电学特性。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。该工具的独特之处在于能够探测具有磁电、磁射频、电光、磁射频光信号及其组合的材料和器件。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，为新知识开辟途径。布法罗大学工程和科学学科的本科生和研究生以及整个纽约大学地区的学生将通过布法罗大学各个工程和科学部门提供的课程和项目获得和培训该工具。该工具将对当前美国关注的维护美国领导地位的广泛议题产生积极影响。其中包括半导体、量子信息科学、5G及以后的通信、清洁能源技术。为本科生和研究生提供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。该工具将被整合到UB的共享仪器和设备门户中，并由其管理，为学术和工业用户提供方便的访问。UB正在进行的强大的外展项目也将使用该设施。探测站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、可重复的测量材料和设备的电学、光学和磁性，产生一致的结果。它们是多功能的，灵活的，但更重要的是易于快速使用的研究平台，可以被电子，光子学，工程，材料科学，物理和化学部门的多个研究人员使用。该工具的独特之处在于能够探测具有磁电、磁射频、电光、磁射频光信号及其组合的材料和器件。该工具将使研究范围广泛：用于节能数据密集型计算应用的低功耗非易失性高速磁电逻辑和存储设备；使用超宽带隙半导体的下一代射频和功率器件；基于新兴二维材料的隧道场效应管和冷电子晶体管；基于宽带隙半导体的高功率柔性电子器件基于III-V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)/太赫兹器件；用噪声光谱理解相关电子系统的基本物理；高温超导体用于量子信息科学和表征二维材料，异质界面和器件。这些高影响力的研究在计算、通信和能源等领域都有应用。这也将有助于理解二维磁体和极性分子的基本物理。拟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。这些独特的特征对于进行拟议的研究至关重要。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.