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A revolutionary instrument that will expedite the discovery of new, artificial forms of matter with unprecedented electronic and magnetic properties will be funded by a $4.13 million gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The new instrument, to be called the Moore CONQUEST (Creation and Observation of Novel Quantum Electronic Structures) facility, will integrate three separate pieces of cutting-edge technology for synthesizing and studying such materials. The facility will consist of an oxide molecular-beam epitaxy machine for making new materials with high structural quality and unparalleled layering control at the atomic level, combined with the world's most advanced spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling (SI-STM) microscope, and with an ultra-high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) system for probing how electrons move in the newly created materials. The instrument will combine the expertise of three Cornell scientists, who will work together to design and build it over the next three years. J.C. Seamus Davis, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, has already developed the most precise SI-STM in the world, the newest of which is housed in a low-vibration, low-temperature facility on campus. Darrell Schlom, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry, is expert in growing precisely designed oxide thin films using molecular beam epitaxy; and Kyle Shen, associate professor of physics, is expert in the spectroscopic imaging technique ARPES.
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