Then I wanted to continue in UVM but there was some "misunderstanding" and I was both out of school and without a job. After a year I was accepted to UIC but some problems were not resolved, since either my adviser or the Department of Materials doesn't have any deposition chamber. After about two years I got lucky because I began to learn, study, and work with MBE chamber to grow BiFeO3 and BaTiO3 perovskites. Despite of that the perovskites are very interesting material, the MBE chamber got three times out of order, once for more than 6 months, and the funding for the project were lost. On the other hand, sufficient number of samples was already grown to finish my Ph.D. studies but I must say that everything what I did was only a base for what I wanted to do. Nevertheless, I found that the perovskites can grow epitaxially when the ratio of metals is close enough to 1.0, I measured some physical properties successfully (i.e. index, thickness) and some physical properties was not possible to measure at all, i.e. Hall effect.
And I had to make or buy equipment. According to my drawing, a basic apparatus was made to add polarizers, wiring, software, etc. to measure an index of refraction and thickness.
Details of all procedures and what I found are in my thesis papers: