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DLTS User Meeting 2023 - Q&A

21.12.2023

This blog post presents the questions and answers raised during the DLTS User Meeting 2023. The meeting intended to bring together the community who may face common measurement challenges and allow them to share knowledge and expertise.

Lock-in Amplifier or Boxcar Averager? Choosing the Right Measurement Tool for Periodic Signals - Q&A

21.11.2023

This blog post provides the answers to the questions asked by the audience during the webinar "Lock-in Amplifier or Boxcar Averager? Choosing the Right Measurement Tool for Periodic Signals”, and points to other helpful resources.

Quantum Materials: from Characterization to Resonator Measurements - Q&A

26.06.2023

In this webinar, we discussed transport measurements on materials for quantum computing, why studying resonators accelerates development of materials used for quantum computing by yielding a wealth of information, and how to measure resonators effectively with the Pound-Drever-Hall method. The recording of the full webinar can be found here...

Measure and Generate Periodic Microwave Signals: The GHFLI and SHFLI Launch Event

11.10.2022

https://www.zhinst.com/ch/en/ghfli-and-shfli

This blog post accompanies the online launch event of the GHFLI and SHFLI Lock-in Amplifiers, the trailblazers that bring state-of-the-art signal generation, analysis, and control to microwaves. Watch the recording and read the transcript of the Q&A to learn about the innovations brought by these new instruments and how they can help researchers and engineers.

DLTS User Meeting 2022 – Q&A

25.07.2022

This blog post presents a selection of questions and answers raised during the DLTS User Meeting 2022. The meeting intended to bring together the community who may face common measurement challenges and allow them to share core competencies and know-how.

Hands-on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

28.06.2022

This blog post accompanies the webinar, which introduced basics of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and provided practical tips & tricks to measure EIS consistently. We share the recording, additional information and answers to the questions asked by the attendees during the webinar.

SPM Webinar: From Charge Dynamics in Solids to Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with SPM

09.05.2022

This blog post accompanies the webinar, where we hosted Prof. Peter Grutter from McGill University in Canada. In this webinar, Peter explained some inner mechanisms of chemical reactions in molecules and charge dynamics in solids, that determine materials' most fundamental properties. To achieve this, he developed in the Nanoscience &...

A Fast and Integrated Qubit Control System - SHFQC Launch Event

18.03.2022

On March 3rd, Jan Benhelm, Bruno Küng and I were thrilled to welcome a diverse audience from all over the world to present our newest instrument - the SHFQC Qubit Controller. In the first part of the webinar Jan explained how the SHFQC integrates a full qubit control system for...

Quantum Material Characterization for Streamlined Qubit Development

03.01.2022

In this webinar, we covered the material properties that are most important to consider when developing qubits with longer coherence times and looked into how to characterize these materials accurately and efficiently. By focusing on the fundamental properties of the materials, simpler fabrication methods and experimental setups can be used...

Best Practices in Sensor Characterization and Control - Q&A

02.12.2021

For this webinar we teamed up with Dr. Tomás Manzaneque , whose work focuses on the fabrication, modeling and interfacing of mechanical micro-resonators in different fields of application: examples are rheological sensing, ultra-sensitive mass sensing, passive conditioning of RF signals for the Internet-of-Things communications, and single-cell biopsy. His research interests...

网络研讨会：来自瑞士的顶尖阻抗分析仪

27.09.2021

2021年9月23日，苏黎世仪器举办了一场网络研讨会：“即来自瑞士的顶尖阻抗分析仪: 快速和低速测量两相宜”。此研讨会包含了两部分内容。其一就是直流支撑电容器的ESR和ESL的测试，我们重点讲述了如何通过智能用户补偿，实现低至mOhm和nH数量级的微笑阻抗的测试。其二则为深能级动态能谱检测（DLTS）。在这一部分中，我们展示了如何使用MFIA在us的时间尺度内，测到半导体器件中fF级别电容的变化。我们希望借本次研讨会之际，能与您展开更为深入的交流。

How to Characterize Magnetic Materials With Lock-in Amplifiers

15.07.2021

In this webinar we covered two basic magnetic characterization techniques, the vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) and AC susceptibility where lock-in amplifiers are essential part of the measurement and the detection chain. We teamed up with Yury Bugoslavsky, who is managing VSM products at Cryogenic Ltd...

The Next Generation of Signal Generators - SHFSG Launch Event

05.05.2021

On April 29th, Jan Benhelm, Mark Kasperczyk and I welcomed a crowd of customers to the interactive online event introducing Zurich Instruments’ newest product, the SHFSG Signal Generator. Our aim was to present multiple perspectives on the launch of this powerful instrument. Jan provided an overview of Zurich Instruments’ quantum...

Fast Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy for Characterization and Counting - Q&A

23.03.2021

This blog post summarizes the webinar that Fluigent and Zurich Instruments presented together on our solution for fast electric impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in microfluidics. The system consisted of an HF2LI Lock-in Amplifier from Zurich Instruments and the LineUp series microfluidic flow controllers from Fluigent. We covered the working principle of...

Probing Local Magnetic Field Patterns - Q&A

26.02.2021

For this webinar we teamed up with Prof. Martino Poggio , whose work focuses on understanding the physics of materials and phenomena that is strongly dependent on the local conditions, be it by impurities or through the design through local probing of magnetic fields coming from currents and magnetization. Several...

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