Overview of Research Opportunities at CAMD:
Accelerator and Controls:
• Development of computer-control systems, hardware and software.
• Upgrade of the accelerator hardware.
Microfabrication Techniques and Applications Development:
• Design and fabrication of devices with feature sizes as small as one micron and smaller.
• Research in application of microdevices (e.g. biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, microfluidics)
Nanofabrication:
• Wet chemical synthesis and X-ray absorption spectroscopic characterization of metallic nanostructures.
• Polymeric Micro reactor technology for nanoparticle synthesis.
• Fabrication of biosensors, drug delivery systems and functional micro devices using nanoparticles.
Spectroscopy using Synchrotron-Radiation Source:
• Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy for surface science and materials study.
• X-Ray-Absorption Spectroscopy for materials, environmental and biology/medical studies. (EXAFS, XANES, X-Ray Fluorescence)
• Synchrotron-Radiation based Infrared Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Material-Structure Determinations using Monochromatized X rays from the Synchrotron-Radiation Source:
• Protein Crystallography, secondary and tertiary structure of proteins.
• X-Ray Microtomography; micrometer-spatial-resolution internal structures, including element identification, of samples.
• Powder Diffraction; structure determination of environmentally important samples.
• Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS); obtain structural information on the nano-meter scale – e.g., macromolecular shape and distribution, quaternary structure of proteins, sub-microscopic surface features of materials.
