Dr. Khakoo's experiments involve the scattering of electrons by various elements.  For more information, see research.

Here we see the professor focused as he prepares the equipment for another data run.

Several vacuum chambers, where the electron scattering experiments are conducted, form the center of the laboratory equipment.

State of the art low energy electron spectrometers cause electrons to be collimated, monochronated, and directed to gaseous targets.  Scattered electrons are detected as a function of residual energy, counted, and registered by computer.  Three such chambers are present in the laboratory.

The chamber shown has a state of the art, high-resolution double-hemispherical spectrometer.  Much of the equipment in the lab was donated by JPL, a close partner of the lab in the exploration of physical phenomena.

The lab contains several computers, which are vital to the lab's operation.  Many of the experiments conducted are computer controlled, allowing exact and 'round-the-clock control as well as precise measurement and recording of experimental data. 

Sophisticated computerized data analysis is often necessary to unravel the information hidden in the data obtained by experiment.  The computers are also used for everything from designing new experimental equipment to writing proposals to maintaining the website.