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As a scientific user facility, EMSL provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. Projects displayed below reflect information and abstracts that were published before April 30, 2024. To review current user projects, visit EMSL's Science Central.

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Identification of Metal Reductases (NABIR)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Mary Lipton
Project type
Exploratory Research
Central to the NABIR goal to develop the scientific basis for in situ remediation of radioactive contaminants is the fundamental understanding of microorganisms with dissmilatory metal reducing…

Characterization of PZT/PLZT Multilayers

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
David Bahr
Project type
Exploratory Research
Thin ferroelctric films have been grown using solution deposition methods. Films of alternating layers of lead - zironcate - titanate and lead - lanthanum - zironcate - titanate have been grown,…

Post Growth Analysis of GaN and InGaN Grown with MOCVD

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Tai-Chang Chen
Project type
Exploratory Research
InGaN alloy system is appropriate for light detection due to its direct bandgap and high absorption coefficient. The bandgap energies of wurtzite GaN and InGaN are 3.39 and 1.89 eV, respectively. …

Post Growth Analysis of GaN and InGaN Grown with MOCVD

Lead Institution
University of Washington
Principal Investigator
Tai-Chang Chen
Project type
Exploratory Research
InGaN alloy system is appropriate for light detection due to its direct bandgap and high absorption coefficient. The bandgap energies of wurtzite GaN and InGaN are 3.39 and 1.89 eV, respectively. …

SEM analysis of doped lanthanum

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Simner
Project type
Exploratory Research
2-4 lanthanum chromite samples to be analyzed using SEM and EDX

Characterization of Oxides on Granular Iron by Raman Spectroscopy

Lead Institution
Oregon Health & Science University
Principal Investigator
Paul Tratnyek
Project type
Exploratory Research
See attached PDF file (There was no indication of a 2000 character limit until after I tried to submit the text, so I have included the text as an attachment)

Development of Procedures for Obtaining Clean, Defect-Free Ge Surfaces

Lead Institution
Yale University
Principal Investigator
Eric Altman
Project type
Exploratory Research
It is difficult to obtain clean, defect-free Ge surfaces using either standard UHV techniques such as sputter/annealing or wet chemical methods. The principal difficulty is thought to be removing C…

Selective External Accumulation for FT-ICR-MS

Lead Institution
University of Delaware
Principal Investigator
Thomas Bailey
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed project is to spend some time learning how to do external accumulation of ions for Fourier Transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). The information gathered from…

Interfacing an Electrodynamic Ion Funnel with an Electrospray Ionization, Orthogonal Extraction, Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer for Improved Transmission of Single Stranded DNA Molecules.

Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Michael Westphall
Project type
Exploratory Research
In sequencing the Human Genome, the current technology of choice for separating Sanger DNA sequencing reactions is gel electrophoresis. This technique provides high resolution with single base…

Electron microscopy of oxide Thin Films

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
R. Smith
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are making Oxide thin films. We would like to use the electron microscope to determinine the structure and porosity of these samples.

Infrared Spectral Library of Bacterial Spores (Sharpe's NNSA, PNNL Scope #28727)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Timothy Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
It has been demonstrated that bacterial endospores have unique infrared (IR) signatures that can be identified to the species-, and in some cases, to the strain-level using Fourier Transform Infrared…

Electron Microscopy and XPS analysis of Porous Silicon

Lead Institution
The Scripps Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Gary Siuzdak
Project type
Exploratory Research
The proposed research is designed to generate SEM and XPS data on porous silicon surfaces. The purpose is to correlate desorption/ionization on porous silicon (DIOS) mass spectrometry signals …

Gratings calibration and characterization

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dean Matson
Project type
Exploratory Research
We are laser machining optical gratings in sputtered coatings for a client. Use of EMSL's optical profilometer is needed to calibrate the depth of the laser machined grooves in the gratings and…

Characterization of silicon carbide coating silicon wafer surface

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Shoichi Kimura
Project type
Exploratory Research
This research looks into the possibility of coating the surface of silicon wafers with silicon carbide that is synthesized via the pyrolysis of polymethyl silane (PMS). The PMS is obtained by the…

High Resolution Spectra of Methane and its Isotopes

Lead Institution
College of William and Mary
Principal Investigator
Malathy Venkataraman
Project type
Exploratory Research
The purpose of this proposal is to incorporate the very high-resolution (better than 0.0025 cm-1) spectra of methane obtainable with the Bruker 120HR FTS in our multispectrum least squares analysis…

Low Temperature Imaging of Metal-Organics

Lead Institution
Washington State University
Principal Investigator
Kerry Hipps
Project type
Exploratory Research
Previous work in the laboratory of Professor Hipps has shown that the image contrast of metal-organics depends strongly on the nature of the metal center. Several mechanisms, such as resonant…