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Customer feedback on all aspects of k-Space products is an extremely important component of our product development. It is through our customers that we are able to make better in-situ monitoring tools. Below we list several of our current customers and their specific applications. We hope that this page will serve as a source of information and technology exchange.

If we do not have your web link and application listed here and you would like to be listed, please contact us so that we may add you to this page.

kSA 400 - RHEED Analysis

 

Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

 
    Tim Droubay
    www.emsl.pnl.gov
We use the kSA 400 during in-situ oxide molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Research using EMSL's MBE deposition system centers around the synthesis and characterization of novel oxide, ceramic, and mineral materials as crystalline films.

 

Dalhousie University
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science

 
Theodore Monchesky
www.physics.dal.ca/

I use the kSA 400 for SiGe MBE growth.


  National Research Council Canada
 
    Zbig Wasilewski
    http://ims-ism.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
At the National Research Council Canada we use the kSA 400 on two MBE systems for work with arsenides, dilute nitrides and antimonides.

  National University of Singapore
 
    Thwin Htoo
    www.ece.nus.edu.sg/coe/
At the National University of Singapore we use the kSA 400 for in-situ GaAS MBE.

North Carolina State University
Materials Research Center
 
    Dr. Daniel Lichtenwalner
    Prof. Angus Kingon
    www.ncsu.edu
We are using the kSA 400 for RHEED analysis of Si substrate surface cleanliness, and for monitoring growth of a variety of oxide films on Si in an MBE system.

 

Oakridge National Laboratory
NanoTransport Laboratory

   
Sergei V. Kalinin
http://nanotransport.ornl.gov

Our Primary uses for the kSA 400 are PLD growth of strongly correlated oxides and LEED I-V data acquisition.


  Ohio University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
 
    Arthur Smith
    www.phy.ohiou.edu/~asmith/
My kSA 400 is used in conjunction with an all-nitride rf N-plasma MBE system. Samples whose growth is monitored by RHEED may also be transferred through vacuum to an adjoining UHV STM system for atomic-scale analysis.

  Oxide Lab
The University of Wisconsin Laboratory
   
Land Belenky
www.oxidelab.com

We use the kSA 400 in the deposition and analysis of ultra-thin films and superlattices of magnetic, ferroelectric and superconducting oxide materials. Our high-pressure pulsed laser deposition system was custom designed and built by TSST of the Netherlands to incorporate advanced RHEED capability.


  Simon Fraser University
 
    Bret Heinrich
    www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/heinrich.html
We are using the kSA 400 for the study of magnetic nanostructures grown on GaAs templates. RHEED is an invaluable tool to determine the interface properties of multilayer films.

  Superconductor Technologies Inc.
   

Luke Shing-Jen Peng, PhD.

www.suptech.com

We use the kSA 400 for in-situ lattice spacing monitoring to determine the composition of SrTiO3 (STO) films grown by reactive coevaporation.


  University of Canterbury
   
Steve Durbin
www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz
We presently use the kSA 400 system on a two-chamber Perkin Elmer 430 MBE system in which we work on nitride and oxide semiconductor material systems. The kSA 400 will be moving to a new UHV pulsed laser deposition system at the end of September.

  Xpert Semiconductor Inc.
   
Pin Ho
www.xpertsemi.com
Our kSA 400 is used for in-situ GaAS and InP-based MBE.



  University of Albany
 
    Vincent LaBella
    www.albany.edu/~vlabella
We use the kSA BandiT for in-situ GaAs(001) and (111) surface preparation within an MBE system for STM measurements



  Argonne National Laboratory
 
    Eric Dufresne
    www.mhatt.aps.anl.gov
At Argonne National Labs we use a Qmax 650 camera from k-Space as an X-ray camera for fast time-resolved experiments.

  Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser University of Crete
 
    Theo Kitsopoulos
    www.iesl.forth.gr/ulf/index.asp
We use kSA Eyespy for Chemical Dynamics Imaging i.e. imaging the velocity distribution of particles formed from photoionization, photofragmentation and reactive scattering.