CIQTEK Scanning NV Microscope Successfully Delivered to Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Recently, the Cryogenic Scanning NV Microscope (SNVM) developed by CIQTEK was successfully delivered to the Institute of Space Environment and Material Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. The technical and application engineers of CIQTEK successfully completed the installation and commissioning in the user's laboratory and were highly recognized by the users. 

CIQTEK staff at the Institute of Space Environment and Material Science of Harbin Institute of Technology adjusted CQDAFM equipment on site

Highly sensitive, high spatial resolution precision measurement technology

Magnetic properties as one of the fundamental properties of matter, and its microscopic imaging is an important research direction in experimental physics. With the rise of magnetic storage, spintronics, and other fields, the microscopic study of magnetism has put forward completely new technical requirements. In recent years, a unique defect structure Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamonds, has attracted the attention of researchers.

Precision measurement technology based on the NV center in diamond

Scanning probe microscopy based on NV-center in diamond fully combines the advantages of high-sensitivity magnetic detection of light-probing magnetic resonance technology and ultra-high-resolution imaging technology of atomic force microscopy to achieve nanoscale, high-sensitivity, nondestructive, quantitative magnetic properties of scanning imaging, which plays an important role in superconducting magnetic vortex imaging and two-dimensional material magnetic imaging research. Based on the profound technical accumulation in the field of precision measurement, and after extensive research, long-term exploration, and a full understanding of current research needs, the R&D team of CIQTEK has developed the commercialized Cryogenic Scanning NV Microscope.

Institute of Space Environment and Material Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

=The Institute of Space Environment and Material Science of Harbin Institute of Technology is an academic research institute for space physics, space materials, space life, space exploration, and spacecraft application technology. It has built the magnetic substance preparation and comprehensive analysis and testing platform, including a high-throughput ultra-high vacuum magnetron sputtering coating system, multi-chamber pulsed laser molecular beam epitaxial film preparation system, optoelectronic film preparation system, low-temperature Scanning NV Microscope, magnetic force microscope (MFM), magneto-optical Kerr microscope (MOKE), comprehensive physical property testing system (PPMS), etc. 

Harbin Institute of Technology 

SNVM | Extraordinary Performance for Frontier Exploration of Magnetic Materials

The Cryogenic Scanning NV Microscope is a precision measurement instrument based on the diamond NV center and AFM scanning imaging technology with the advantage of wide temperature region (4 K-300 K) operation. It fully combines the advantages of microscopic magnetic resonance technology and scanning probe technology and enables nanoscale, high-sensitivity, nondestructive, quantitative scanning imaging of magnetic properties by manipulation and readout of the spins of NV-center defects in diamonds. It is an emerging technology for the development and study of high-density magnetic storage, and spintronics, and has a wide range of applications in important fields such as two-dimensional materials, superconducting magnetism, and magnetic storage materials.

Cryogenic Scanning NV Microscope