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Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (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 EMSL user projects, visit Science Central™.

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Developing a Parallel Blochl Code

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Marat Valiev
Project type
Exploratory Research
This project will develop a massively parallel version of Bloch's PAW method. PAW is an all-electron method that combines the adaptability of linear augmented plane wave methods with the…

Post Growth Analysis of GaN Grown with Low Temperature MOCVD

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Johnson
Project type
Exploratory Research
GaN thin films (1-2 microns) have been grown using MOCVD at low temperatures (415-460 C). During growth, disturbances in processing conditions have been purposely introduced to induce changes in…

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…