Equipment

The platforms SIS and ASURE have been developed to study complex intermetallic surfaces.

The two ultrahigh vacuum systems are equipped with surface preparation tools (ion bombardment, resistive heating, e-beam heating, mass spectroscopy and deposition sources) and characterization tools (photoemission, variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning force microscopy, low-energy electron diffraction, temperature programmed desorption).

We also use extensively the cluster available at the Institute (CC-ERMIONE).

Other facilities are used for synthesis, growth and characterization of compounds and analysis of their macroscopic surface properties like friction and wetting.

Left picture : ASURE platform
Right picture : SIS platform