In booths 901/903 at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Denver (3-7 March), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for measurement and control, is to discuss its soon-to-released 8500 Series terahertz (THz) system for electronic, magnetic and chemical materials research and characterization.
The fully integrated platform uses non-contact THz-frequency energy and an integrated low-temperature, high-field cryostat to measure material spectroscopic responses across a wide range of frequencies, temperatures and field strengths.
The system is claimed to be the first affordable, integrated, convenient solution specifically tailored for characterization of research-scale electronic and magnetic materials. It is applicable to research aiming to characterize properties of emerging materials in high-speed computing, organic electronic, spin-based computing and thin-film semiconductor applications.
The system performs continuous-wave spectroscopic response measurements to derive key material properties, including dielectric constant, dynamic conductivity, carrier scattering times and mobilities, vibrational resonances, and magnetic resonances. Several key research facilities in the USA are currently using alpha units of the system to gain insight into molecular solids, thin films and other materials.
