QSP is a section of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of KU Leuven specialized in experimental research of functional properties of solid-state systems.
It consists of nine members of academic staff and more than forty doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers, operating a wide range of in-house facilities dedicated to thin film with extensive in-situ characterization capabilities, ion implantation and ion beam analysis, cluster production, mass spectrometry and spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy and low-temperature transport and magnetization measurements.
A large part of the research is also conducted at international large-scale facilities, such as the ISOLDE facility at CERN, synchrotron facilities (ESRF), free-electron lasers and neutron sources.