Logan Bishop-Van Horn

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• Imaging anisotropic vortex dynamics in FeSe PHYSICAL REVIEW B Zhang, I. P., Palmstrom, J. C., Noad, H., Bishop-Van Horn, L., Iguchi, Y., Cui, Z., Mueller, E., Kirtley, J. R., Fisher, I. R., Moler, K. A. 2019; 100 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.024514

  View details for Web of Science ID 000476686700006

• Cryogen-free variable temperature scanning SQUID microscope. The Review of scientific instruments Bishop-Van Horn, L. n., Cui, Z. n., Kirtley, J. R., Moler, K. A. 2019; 90 (6): 063705

  Abstract

  Scanning Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging local magnetic properties of materials and devices, but it requires a low-vibration cryogenic environment, traditionally achieved by thermal contact with a bath of liquid helium or the mixing chamber of a "wet" dilution refrigerator. We mount a SQUID microscope on the 3 K plate of a Bluefors cryocooler and characterize its vibration spectrum by measuring SQUID noise in a region of sharp flux gradient. By implementing passive vibration isolation, we reduce relative sensor-sample vibrations to 20 nm in-plane and 15 nm out-of-plane. A variable-temperature sample stage that is thermally isolated from the SQUID sensor enables the measurement at sample temperatures from 2.8 K to 110 K. We demonstrate these advances by imaging inhomogeneous diamagnetic susceptibility and vortex pinning in optimally doped yttrium barium copper oxide above 90 K.

  View details for DOI 10.1063/1.5085008

  View details for PubMedID 31255038