Founded: 1987
Full Time: 56
Part Time: 0
Budget: $4,000,000.00
Director: Josef Hormes
6980 Jefferson Highway
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Telephone: 225/578-8887 FAX: 225/578-6954 E-Mail: hormes@lsu.edu
Website: http://camd.lsu.edu
Research Areas:
The facility's primary role is research and enhancement of new technologies in microfabrication and materials research. Educating a new generation of scientists and engineers in these areas is made possible by supporting the Center to accommodate and enhance the programs of researchers from the LSU campus and from universities and colleges across Louisiana as well as across the nation and from around the world.
Areas of Expertise:
Microfabrication
X-Ray lithography is used for fabricating microscopic structures and devices. Furthermore, in-house infrastructure and expertise in electrochemistry, hot embossing, and applications coupled with on-campus expertise from chemistry and from engineering provides the strongest basis in the US for the manufacturing of microdevices by the LiGA process.
Analysis of materials
X-Ray spectroscopy and tomography provide information regarding the composition and internal structure and elemental distribution (from millimeter to nanometer dimensioned) of samples of material, biological and environmental significance.
Basic Research
Studies of the electronic properties (including atomic oxidation state) and the geometric arrangement of atoms and molecules using synchrotron-radiation-based infrared, vacuum-ultraviolet and X-ray spectroscopies are primary activities.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The facility houses a synchrotron radiation storage ring that is operated at 1.3 GeV. The experimental facility also includes fourteen user beamlines with an additional one currently under construction and expected to be installed and commissioned by middle to late 2004. Two class-100 clean rooms totaling 2500 square feet in area, a small but adequate wet chemistry lab, deionized water systems, cooling water systems and cryogenic-liquid storage and handling systems for nitrogen and helium are all available in the 25,000 square-foot temperature and humidity controlled experiment hall .
Research Equipment:
All beamlines and processing equipment are shared. The beamline stations are dedicated to specific research. A list of beamlines available to users as of autumn 2003 follows:
Micromachining I
Micromachining II
Micromachining IV
Protein Crystallography
3-meter NIM
PGM
6-meter TGM
X-ray Microprobe
EXAFS, DCM
SAXS and grazing-incidence XAS
3-meter TGM
White-Light X-Ray (currently used for microtomography)
Micromachining III
FTIR
Keywords:
Surface Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry
Molecular Chemistry
Condensed Matter
Instrumentation Techniques (Physical Sciences)
Physics
Chemical Physics
Physics, Solid State
Spectroscopy
Synchrotron Radiation
Microscopy
Surface Physics
Materials, Engineering Properties
Microelectronics
Printed Circuits
Electronics/Electrical Engineering
Integrated Circuits
Sensing Devices and Transducers