Equipment

We host advanced experimental laboratory infrastructures, comprising materials synthesis (ceramics, thin films via chemical and physical vapor deposition techniques), fundamental materials physics characterization, including in-situ analysis tools (e.g. electronic oxide cluster, EOC) and defect characterization, as well as cleanroom-based device fabrication and integration, specialized for memristive materials and neuromorphic circuits. This experimental approach is completed by the in-house development of the required automatized advanced characterization techniques (e.g. fast pulse measurements) and comprehensive modelling (atomic scale to device level and compact modelling).

The electronic oxide cluster (EOC) is a major lab infrastructure located at PGI-7, enabling the synthesis, combination, and characterization of functional oxides via in-situ transfer between 7 work stations. EOC cluster hosts thin film synthesis tools (pulsed laser deposition (PLD), sputtering, e-beam evaporation, large-area PLD) and characterization tools (atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM/NanoESCA)), which are all interconnected via universal sample carriers and vacuum transfer systems. The EOC allows us to address the physics of nanoscale oxides, which we use in memristive devices, neuromorphic networks, ferroelectrics, and electrocatalytic systems.