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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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Examine the Compositions of the Black Sands in Northern Oregon

Lead Institution
David Heil Associates Corporation
Principal Investigator
James Young
Project type
Exploratory Research
Beaches on the Oregon Coast have several kinds of sand, white quartz and feldspar sands, and two types of black sands rich in iron and titanium. Black sands in southern Oregon come from the Klamath…

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,…

Environmental proteomic analysis of anaerobic methane oxidizing systems

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Steven Hallam
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Prokaryotic microorganisms represent the majority of living things on Earth. In many cases, interdependent constituents of this vast microbial biota play decisive roles in defining biogeochemical…

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

Hydrogen Materials Compatibility Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE), based on direct injection (DI) technology has the best potential to provide very high power density with diesel-like efficiency and very low emissions…

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.

Model oxide defects with vicinally stepped NiO(100) substrates

Lead Institution
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Principal Investigator
Marjorie Langell
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
We propose atomic force microscopy (AFM) studies of vicinally-stepped NiO(001) substrates designed to present periodic surface atomic edge sites and narrow terraces of constant atomic width. The…