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Miniature capacitive Faraday force magnetometer for magnetization measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields

Materials Science 2020-07-22 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

A Faraday force magnetometer is presented for measurements of magnetization at temperatures down to 100~mK and in magnetic fields up to 14~T. The specimen is mounted on a flexible cantilever forming a force-sensing capacitor in combination with a fixed back plate. Two different cantilever designs are presented. A torsion resistant cantilever allows to measure magnetization of highly anisotropic single crystal samples. Measurements of the metal organic quantum magnets (C5_5H12_{12}N)2_2CuBr4_4 (BPCB) and NiCl2_2\cdot4 SC(NH2_2)2_2 (DTN) demonstrate the device's capabilities. Routinely, a specimen's magnetic moment is measured with a resolution better than 10710^{-7} A\,m2^2 (10410^{-4} emu). The device in miniaturized to fit is almost any cryostat.

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@article{arxiv.2002.10168,
  title  = {Miniature capacitive Faraday force magnetometer for magnetization measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields},
  author = {Dominic Blosser and Leonardo Facheris and Andrey Zheludev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10168},
  year   = {2020}
}