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The Magnetic Lab in the physics department is equipped with X-and Q-Band electron spin resonance spectrometers (ESR); the spectrometers are equipped with liquid He cryostats for low temperature measurements; the lab is also equipped with a 9-Tesla Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS). The system is an automated low-temperature and magnet for the measurement of material properties like magnetization, specific heat, magnetic AC and DC susceptibility and both electrical and thermal transport properties. A home-made broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) setup designed to probe the magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin films. The setup includes a coplanar waveguide for frequency sweep (2 to 19 GHz). The magnetic field can reach up to 0.4 T with an in-plane field and up to 1.5 T in out-of-plane fields. This setup is used to characterize magnetic films such as, the sa​turation magnetization, magnetic damping, spin pumping and other spin-orbitronic phenomena.​

1. Broadband Ferromagnetic Resonance (FMR):
   
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   ​ A homemade broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) setup designed to probe the magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin films. The setup includes a coplanar waveguide for frequency sweep (2 to 19 GHz). The magnetic field can reach up to 0.7 T with an in-plane field and up to 1.5 T in out-of-plane fields. This setup is used to characterize magnetic films such as saturation magnetization, magnetic damping, spin pumping, and other spin-orbitronic phenomen​a.
   


2. Micromagnetic simulation:
   The micro-magnetism simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz equation are performed using open-source software, mumax³. The software is downloaded on the High-Performance Computing Cluster at the American University of Beirut. Codes for data analysis are developed in MATLAB and Python.


3. Electron spin resonance spectrometers
    
   The Magnetic Lab in the physics department is equipped with X-and Q-Band electron spin resonance spectrometers (ESR); the spectrometers are equipped with liquid He cryostats for low-temperature measurements.​
   


4. Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
    
   The lab is also equipped with a 9-Tesla Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS). The system is an automated low-temperature magnet for the measurement of material properties like magnetization, specific heat, magnetic AC and DC susceptibility, and both electrical and thermal transport properties.
   

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