Status
Expected status of the facilities for the next half year (updated 2025-04-01). Availability of facilities subject to change without notice for technical reasons. Please ask if you have specific requirements.
As the SLS is undergoing a major upgrade since October 2023, no synchrotron light is available at PEARL until the new beamline opens in 2026. In the meantime, the PEARL endstation (sample preparation, STM, XPS/ARPES with lab source) remains operational. Please ask beamline staff if you have any requests for experiments at PEARL.
Facility | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Sources | ||
Synchrotron radiation | not available | SLS upgrade |
He Iα, He IIα (monochromatized) | ask |
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Mg Kα, Si Kα (unmonochromatized) | ask |
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Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS/XPD/PhD/ARPES) | ||
Electron spectrometer (Scienta DFS30) | ask | |
Angle scans | ask | |
Photon energy scans | not available | SLS upgrade |
ARPES, Fermi surface mapping | ask | |
Manipulator cooling | ask | 35 K |
Temperature programming | ask | T < 500 K |
Operando measurements | ask | |
Remote control | not available | |
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM/STS) | ||
Microscopy (Omicron LT-STM, Nanonis control system) | OK | |
Spectroscopy | OK | |
Sample temperature | OK | 4 K, 77 K |
Remote control (scanning only) | ask | |
AFM (ex situ) | ask | |
Sample entry | ||
Fast entry lock | OK | |
Glove box transfer | ask | |
Sample preparation | ||
Ar sputtering | OK | |
Heating, radiative | OK | 1200 K |
Heating, direct current | OK | 12 A |
Heating, e-beam | OK | 1500 K |
Pyrometer | OK | |
Cooling | OK | 90 K |
Organic multi-evaporator | OK | 900 K |
Accessory ports | OK | 2 ports |
LEED/Auger | OK | |
QMS/RGA | OK | |
Gas dosing | OK | |
Chemistry lab access | ask | |
Sample preparation, STM system | ||
Ar sputtering | OK | |
Heating, radiative | OK | 1200 K |
Cooling | OK | 140 K |
Accessory ports | OK | 2 ports |