The Coal Chamber is the newest addition to the Surface Dynamics Lab.  It houses an Aarhus scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), a low energy electron diffraction (LEED) unit and a mass spectrometer for temperature programmed measurements up to mass 500 m/z (the standard manipulator can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, whereas a cryogenic manipulator can be inserted for cryogenic experiments). The STM stage has been modified to accommodate an in-situ hydrogen cracker in order to study the hydrogen functionalization of e.g. graphene on metal and insulating surfaces with the expressed aim of engineering a bandgap in graphene.

Instead of dosing hydrogen in-situ, light can be shined into the tunneling junction while scanning. This can be used for laser-combined scanning tunneling microscopy.

The Coal Chamber is also equipped with a molecular evaporator for dosing various molecules, such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (coronene, pyrene etc.), C60 etc.

The various experimental techniques allows for a wide range of surface science experiments.