LSU Physics & Astronomy
Fig. 2. Our group. From back to front: Emily Kramer (undergrad), Ahmad Us Saleheen (graduate student), Daniel Lepkowski (undergrad), and Tapas Samanta (postdoc). With me (mugshot on the homepage) that makes five.
Shane Stadler
We have facilities to fabricate and characterize a wide variety of material, including alloys, ceramics, thin films, and single crystals. On the fabrication side, we employ arc-melting, RF-melting, zone-growth of single crystals, transport growth, and pulsed laser deposition (for thin films).
On the characterization side, we have instruments to measure x-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetometry (a MPMS system by Quantum Design), transport and heat capacity (a PPMS system also by QD), and magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE). In addition, LSU has a synchrotron facility (CAMD) where we have access to the world of X-rays and techniques such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and others.
Finally, the Department of Physics & Astronomy has a liquid helium plant that recovers and liquefies helium used in low-temperature measurements. This is a huge advantage in terms of both cost and availability of the life blood of experimental condensed matter physics.
Contact
Shane Stadler, Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University
202 Nicholson Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-2025
​stadler@lsu.edu
Fig. 1. Ultra-high vacuum and reactive atmosphere pulsed laser deposition chambers.
We have facilities to fabricate and characterize a wide variety of material, including alloys, ceramics, thin films, and single crystals. On the fabrication side, we employ arc-melting, RF-melting, zone-growth of single crystals, transport growth, and pulsed laser deposition (for thin films).
On the characterization side, we have instruments to measure x-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetometry (a MPMS system by Quantum Design), transport and heat capacity (a PPMS system also by QD), and magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE). In addition, LSU has a synchrotron facility (CAMD) where we have access to the world of X-rays and techniques such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and others.
Finally, the Department of Physics & Astronomy has a liquid helium plant that recovers and liquefies helium used in low-temperature measurements. This is a huge advantage in terms of both cost and availability of the life blood of experimental condensed matter physics.