An ultra-low temperature scanning Hall probe microscope for magnetic imaging below 40 mK

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2014-10-01
Karci, Ozgur
Piatek, Julian O.
Jorba, Pau
DEDE, Munir
Ronnow, Henrik M.
Oral, Ahmet
We describe the design of a low temperature scanning Hall probe microscope (SHPM) for a dilution refrigerator system. A detachable SHPM head with 25.4 mm OD and 200 mm length is integrated at the end of the mixing chamber base plate of the dilution refrigerator insert (Oxford Instruments, Kelvinox MX-400) by means of a dedicated docking station. It is also possible to use this detachable SHPM head with a variable temperature insert (VTI) for 2 K-300 K operations. A microfabricated 1 mu m size Hall sensor (GaAs/AlGaAs) with integrated scanning tunneling microscopy tip was used for magnetic imaging. The field sensitivity of the Hall sensor was better than 1 mG/root Hz at 1 kHz bandwidth at 4 K. Both the domain structure and topography of LiHoF4, which is a transverse-field Ising model ferromagnet which orders below T-C = 1.53 K, were imaged simultaneously below 40 mK. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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O. Karci, J. O. Piatek, P. Jorba, M. DEDE, H. M. Ronnow, and A. Oral, “An ultra-low temperature scanning Hall probe microscope for magnetic imaging below 40 mK,” REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, pp. 0–0, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40624.