The Quantum Design Magnetic Properties Measurement System (MPMS) is a SQUID-magnetometer allowing highly automated measurements of the magnetic moment of a wide variety of samples as a function of magnetic field, temperature, or time. Magnetic moments down to 10^-7 emu (10^-10 Am²) can be measured in a reproducible way. The MPMS has a temperature range between 2 and 400 K, the superconducting magnet can reach magnetic fields between 5.5 and 5.5 Tesla.
In our group, the MPMS is mainly used to measure hysteresis loops of nanopatterned superconducting and hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet thin films in a perpendicular magnetic field to investigate the pinning behaviour of the superconducting vortex lattice.

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