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Terahertz Facility

The Terahertz Facility of the Institute of Terahertz Science and Technology (ITST), partnering with the MRL through the Materials Research Facilities Network (MRFN), offers a wide range of one-of-a-kind and state of the art instrumentations. The instrumental capabilities commonly rely on radiation frequencies at the heart of the electromagnetic spectrum in the terahertz (THz) and sub-terahertz range. While this range offers tremendous new opportunities for the study of synthetic and biological materials in solution and solid state, it represents an underutilized spectroscopic regime, given the sparsity of high performance THz sources available. The Terahertz facility uniquely closes the gap with the UCSB Free Electron Lasers (FELs) covering 0.1-4.8 THz at kW power, a frequency-domain vector network analyzer covering 0.07-0.7 THz at lower power, two time-domain spectrometers one of which is a video-rate time-domain vector spectrometer covering 0.3-3 THz, a pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometer at 0.24 Tesla powered by a low power source, as well as the highest power source available for EPR to date, the UCSB FELs.

Access Procedure: 
Campus users contact facility for training.
 
Non-UC use of the below labs is governed by these procedures:
  1. Contact the Lab Manager to ensure the equipment/lab is available for your schedule.
  2. Contact Calli Price, Procurement Services Manager, at contracts@bfs.ucsb.edu (link sends e-mail)  and copy Rita Makogon, ITST Manager, at rita@itst.ucsb.edu to complete the required Agreement, individual waivers, insurance, and lab safety training requirements.
  3. Once all documents are approved and training is complete, users will be connected with the appropriate Lab Manager for department/equipment-specific training and Lab access.

Instruments

  1. 12.5 Tesla Magnet

    12.5 Tesla central magnetic flux density at 4.2 K

  2. 70-700 GHz High Dynamic Range Vector Spectroscopy

    A source and detection of tunable, coherent, large dynamic range and wide IF bandwidths microwave radiation.

  3. FTIR Spectrometer

    One of the best Fourier transform spectrometers in the world, known for high stability of the interferometer and state of the art scanning mechanism.

  4. The UCSB Free-Electron Lasers

    Offers high power terahertz radiation.