Founded: 1995
Full Time: 19
Part Time: 10
Budget: 554,218.00
Director: Gary L. McPherson
Tulane University, Department of Chemistry
New Orleans, LA 70118-5672
Telephone: 504/862-5573 FAX: 504/865-5596 E-Mail: brent@emailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Research Areas:
The Center for Photoindused processes (CPP) consists of graduate, undergraduate, postdoctoral, and faculty researchers with expertise in a variety of exciting research areas. Funded jointly by the national Science Foundation and the State of Louisiana in 1995, the CPP is a growing collection of state-of-the-art photon sources, experimental systems, and integrated work spaces.
Although quite diverse, the research interests of the group fall into three thematic areas: photoprocesses in organized media, photo-assisted interactions related to thin-film processing, and photon interactions with polymeric and biological systems. "Real world" applications of the CPP research include exploring ways to utilize light, such as the development of solar cells and sensors. Other Center research activities help tackle environmental problems, both locally and globally, incorporating light-based techniques to address problems ranging from heavy metal detection to understanding ozone depletion. The results of CPP research also apply to the development of new methods for fabricating polymeric, magnetic, and semiconductor materials.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The CPP participating faculty include members from Xavier university, the university of New Orleans(UNO), and Loyola University, aas well as Tulane, and come from the departments of chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering. This diverse collaboration of faculty and universities enables the CPP to function as a training ground where motivated students interact with a variety of researchers in a dynamic setting and where research excellence is achieved. Researchers, both students and faculty, utilize state-of-the-art methods such as atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and optical tweezers. the laboratories associated with the Center are well-equipped with a variety of excimer, Nd:YAG, dye, and ring lasers(see attached list in section 4).
Research Equipment:
All are available for temporary shared use.
9 High-powered excimer lasers
3 Nitrogen lasers
2 Nd:YAG lasers
8 Dye lasers
5 Argon ion lasers
1Ti:Dye ring laser
1 Time domain laser sytem
1 Auger surface analysis machine
6 Frequency doublers
2 Time-correlated single-photon counting systems
1 Raman spectrometer
Descriptive Keywords:
1003000 Chemical Sciences
1003003 Chemical Dynamics
1003010 Chemistry, Inorganic
1003012 Chemistry, Organic
1003014 Chemistry, Physical
1003022 Surface Chemistry
1003047 Ultrafast Chemistry
1003064 Physical-Organic Chemistry
1009000 Materials Sciences
1009013 Polymer Science
1009015 Semiconductors
1009016 Surface Science
1009017 Thin Film, Technology and Applications
1009080 Electronic/Optical Materials
1013000 Physical Sciences
1013018 Physics
1013020 Chemical Physics
1013000 Physics, Soild State
1013029 Physics, Theroretical
1013024 Spectroscopy
1013040 Quantum Mechanics
1013051 Atomic Spectra
1013084 Vacuum Science
1013085 Applied Physics
1013086 Experimental Physics
1014001 Instrumentation, Scientific
1016075 Electronic Materials
1220030 Chemistry, Materials
1220055 Photochemistry
1240030 Materials, Preparation/Fabrication
1275055 Solar
1275075 Solar, Photochemical Conversion