Gallery

The Gallery

Where the crystals get made: our equipment, our people, and the occasional party. More on Instagram @schooplab.

Equipment Over the Years Events Crystals

The Lab

What you get to work with when you join us: synthesis, crystal growth, and full in-house characterization.

Vacuum line — Vacuum line for sealing quartz tubes

Glove box — Glove boxes, wet and dry; this one with an integrated microscope

Centrifuge — Centrifuge for separating nanosheets

Muffle furnaces

Tube furnaces

9T DynaCool

14T PPMS

Dilution refrigerator — Dilution refrigerator attachment for the PPMS

7T MPMS

Diffractometer — Single-crystal diffractometer

Powder XRD — Powder XRD with heating and cooling (Ag and Mo sources)

Arc melter

Wiresaw — Wiresaw with goniometer

ICP-OES

Lock-in amplifier — Lakeshore lock-in amplifier

FIB transport device — Focused ion beam (FIB) fabricated device for angle-resolved transport

Optical microscope — Optical microscope (100× magnification)

Microwave digestion system — CEM Discover SP-D microwave digestion system

Mobius — Möbius (Wyatt Technology): size and zeta potential of nanoparticle dispersions

The group over the years

Group 2018 — 2018

Group 2019 — 2019

Group 2020 — 2020

Group 2021 — 2021

Group 2022 — 2022

Group 2023 — 2023

Lab party 2024 — 2024 (lab party, standing in for the missing group photo)

Group 2025 — 2025

Lab events

Lab party 2025

Bastei hike — Group hike near the Bastei Bridge, Saxon Switzerland (2023 lab trip to Germany)

Lab kids — The youngest members of the group, on tour (2023)

Schoopfest 2022

Distanced picnic — Socially distanced picnic (2020)

Crystals

Hexagonal crystal

Needle crystals

Bar crystal

Transparent flakes

SEM of layered crystal stack

SEM of exfoliating crystal sheets

Needle crystals on sparkling matrix

Sparkling crystal field