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Particle-Surface Resources on the Internet

This page is maintained by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro at the Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton. The information is believed to be accurate; however, use of the information is at your own risk.

Mention of commercial services or suppliers does not constitute an endorsement. The information is provided purely as a convenience to the research community.

Please e-mail me ( ) with any internet resource that would be useful to the particle-surface research community. I will add it to this list. Likewise, if you find that a link or other resource has moved, or is no longer available, please let me know.

Please note that since entering the early retirement program here at Cal State Fullerton I have not been updating this site on a regular basis. However, I will endeavor to update links that have changed, and remove dead links as that information is brought to my attention.

If anyone in the particle-surface community would like to take over the maintenance of this page, please contact me.

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Mailing Lists, Gophers, FTP sites, etc.:

Conferences without a WWW page are listed at the bottom of this section. Conferences with a WWW page are listed at the bottom of the next section.

  1. The Particle-Solid mailing list is an excellent means to send e-mail to the particle-surface community. The e-mail address for the list is psolid@ee.surrey.ac.uk . Contact Roger Webb (R.Webb@ee.surrey.ac.uk) for more information. (updated address)
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WWW Sites:

  1. GAMS - Guide to Available Mathematical Software at NIST is a gateway to a very large collection of (mostly) public domain mathematical and statistical software packages located at several sites on the internet. This site has very good search capabilities.
  2. The Numerical Recipes upgrade page provides information on upgrading your Numerical Recipes software to the latest version. (updated link)
  3. Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University. Offers public domain visualization software LASSPTools.
  4. NIST Physics Laboratory Physical Reference Data is a good starting point to obtain a wide variety of atomic physics data and standard reference data.
  5. The NIST Webbook project will make available on the Web the full range of NIST Standard Reference Data. Currently, only the Chemistry Webbook is on line.
  6. The X-ray Interactions with Matter page at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provides access to a wealth of x-ray data.
  7. Databases for Atomic and Plasma Physics at the Weizmann Institute provides links to a wide variety of atomic physics and plasma physics databases.
  8. The National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a good starting location when looking for nuclear cross section data.
  9. The T-2 Nuclear Information Service page at Los Alamos National Laboratory now provides both experimental and evaluated nuclear data in postcript format through its Nuclear Data Viewer.
  10. The Table of The Nuclides starts with a clickable Segre Chart that allows you to obtain detailed information about a particular isotope (mass, cross section data, etc.). (updated link)
  11. WebElements II provides extensive data (general, chemical, physical, crystallographic, etc.) for the first 111 elements. This website is still referred to by its developer, Mark Winter, as a beta test version; however, it now is at level 2.0beta8.
  12. The Royal Chemical Society Visual Table of the Elements provides information that can be downloaded in PDF format.
  13. Roothaan-Hartree-Fock Ground State Atomic Wave Functions are available from the Computational Chemistry List site. (updated link and site)
  14. The Table of Isotopes homepage at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provides information on atomic masses, chemical properties of the elements, elemental abundances, and isotopic abundances. (updated link)
  15. Martindale's 'The Reference Desk: Science Tables and Databases' is an excellent starting point to look for hard to find physical and chemical information. (updated link)
  16. GAPHYOR (Gas Physics Orsay) is an extensive database of properties of atoms, molecules, and neutral or ionized gases.
  17. Stopping power data for light ions are available from Prof. Helmut Paul's webpage at the University of Linz. Prof. Paul also has a page devoted to cross sections for K-Shell Ionization by light ions that includes tables and interpolation programs. (updated links)
  18. Moldy is a general purpose Molecular Dynamics program written by Keith Refson at Oxford that is available under the usual GNU public license conditions. The program is written in C. (updated link)
  19. MDRANGE is a molecular dynamics program for the computation of ion ranges in materials (1-100 keV) written by Kai Nordlund at the University of Helsinki.
  20. BallRoom: a tool to draw large ensembles of atoms. (updated link)
  21. VisAtoms 2.1 is tool for visualizing the results of MD calculations that can be used on a PC (by Qing Hou of the Free University of Brussels and Sichuan University). (updated link)
  22. gOpenMol is a free molecular/trajectory visualization software package written by Leif Laaksonen. A tutorial describing its use has been written by Scott Anderson. (updated link)
  23. QuickRange by Qing Hou is PC software that can be used to calculate range distributions of energetic ions in solids.
  24. MDBNCH: A molecular dynamics benchmark program also is available from SISSA.
  25. Kalypso 2.0 is a suite of programs for the simulation of atomic collisions in solids using Tight-Binding potentials. The platform for these programs is Win9*/NT. (updated link)
  26. Version 15 of Mark Robinson's MARLOWE code was released on July 1, 2000. Follow the link for information on obtaining this software. (Corrected Link)
  27. The University of Surrey Ion Beam Center has announced the release of version 2.1 of the IBA DataFurnace for RBS and ERDA data analysis. (updated link)
  28. The Materials Research Society homepage - if you have forgotten to mail that abstract in on time!
  29. The Division of Surface Science of the Canadian Society of Chemistry and the Canadian Association of Physicists (CSC/CAP) web server provides a wide range of surface science information with a Canadian perspective.
  30. The Institute of Physics (London) now offers 22 online journals including Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, as well as complete listings of "jobs offered" from Physics World.
  31. The Division of Materials Physics homepage of the American Physical Society includes links to focussed sessions sponsored by DMP at APS meetings.
  32. The American Vacuum Society is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the science and technology of vacuum, materials, surfaces, etc. Visit their homepage for information about their events, courses, and meetings.
  33. The AVS Buyers' Guide provides an extensive listing of commercial suppliers of all types of vacuum, surface characterization, and ion-beam equipment.
  34. ASM International - The Materials Information Society homepage provides valuable references to the properties of metals and alloys, and to the materials engineering community.
  35. Fisons Instruments Surface Science Division has been purchased by Thermo Electron Corp which sells a wide variety of vacuum equipment. (new)
  36. Colutron Research Corporation's homepage provides links to their ion source and ion beam products.
  37. PLATAR Ltd. is a manufacturer of ion sources and related components located in Moscow, Russia.
  38. Orsay Physics is a manufacturer of liquid metal ion sources, high resolution focused ion beam columns, and customized FIB workstations for research and development. They are located in Aix-en-Provence, France.
  39. Amptek's homepage has links to detailed descriptions of their particle detectors and electronics, which are designed to operate in high vacuum environments.
  40. Cremat supplies charge sensitive preamplifiers for use with particle detectors.
  41. Kamis Incorporated is a manufacturer of sputtering and evaporation material for the thin film coating industry supplying crucibles, evaporation boats, electron beam gun parts, ion implantation parts, and high purity metals. (updated link)
  42. Sophisticated Alloys, Inc. is a provider of high quality sputtering and evaporation targets, and other research materials. (updated link)
  43. Reade Advanced Materials supplies a wide variety of high purity materials (alloys, metals, ceramics, etc.) to the research community.
  44. ARGONIDE is a supplier of metastable nano metal powders to the research community.
  45. Nanopowders Industries Lmtd. is a supplier of engineered metal, alloy, and metal oxide nanopowders to the research community and on a commercial scale. (updated link)
  46. ThermoCeramiX is a supplier of plasma spray and arc wire spray materials including refractory metals, precious metal coatings, other metal coatings, ceramic coatings, etc.
  47. IONWERKS, based in Houston, TX, manufactures instrumentation and electronics for time-of-flight mass spectrometry applications in surface analysis (MSRI).
  48. Implant Sciences Corporation provides experimental and production ion implantation services for both biomedical and semiconductor applications. They also market an ion beam implantation profile code for PCs.
  49. Vacuum Science Instruments manufactures equipment for LEED, XPS, UPS, and LEED work. VSI is located near Frankfurt, Germany. They export to many countries including the U.S.
  50. Princeton Research Instruments, Inc. located in Princeton, N.J. manufactures LEED, HEED, and in-vacuum motion equipment.
  51. Surface/Interface Inc. Vacuum Products Group specializes in the positioning and manipulation of samples for industrial and R&D purposes. (updated link)
  52. Beam Dynamics Inc. manufactures precision skimmers and fast ionizations detectors.
  53. El-Mul Technologies, Ltd. manufactures electron and ion detectors, phosphor screens, and TOF mass spectrometry equipment.
  54. The NIM-B Special Issues Catalog from Elsevier is now available on the web. Ordering information for Atomic Collisions on Solid Surfaces by E.S. Parilis et al. also is available.
  55. Elsevier has launched a new Surfaces & Interfaces website, which serves as an entry point to all Elsevier journals related to surface and interface science.
  56. A Table of Materials Properties is available from New Mexico State University. The table is intended for telescope design work, but many common materials are included.
  57. WWW Chemicals provides a searchable data base of catalogs from 21 chemical suppliers.
  58. Fisher Scientific Catalogs are now available on line. Their MSDS database is now incorporated into the electronic version of their chemical catalog.
  59. ChemConnect provides an extensive online directory of chemical suppliers, as well as links to online chemical journals and other resources.
  60. The Roy Schmaus's Vacuum Technology homepage" at the University of Alberta offers numerous links of value to experimentalists working with UHV systems. (updated link)
  61. The Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry WWW Server provides extensive SIMS-related links.
  62. The Varian Vacuum Products page offers information about leak detectors, vacuum pumps, guages, and supplies, as well as a link to their company hompage. (updated link)
  63. The MicroWorld Resources and News homepage provides a large variety of links related to microscopy.
  64. ProSciTech (formerly Probing and Structure) is an Australian firm specializing in supplies for electron microscopy. A wide range of information about their products as well as links to other microscopy sites can be found on their homepage.
  65. SPI Supplies in West Chester, PA provides sample preparation equipment and consumable supply items for TEM, SEM, and light microscopy.
  66. SPMTIPS.com provides links to information about Scanning Probe microscopy as well as commercial products in this field.
  67. VECORUS is a distributor of thin film coating equipment, ion-beam and plasma equipment, optical shop equipment, optical components and coatings produced by leading Russian and former USSR manufacturers.
  68. Sputter Targets is a firm that provides low cost sputtering targets for all major laboratory coating systems. (new)
  69. Emitech provides sample preparation equipment, including sputter coating and carbon and metal vacuum evaporators, for the electron microscopy industry. (new)
  70. The latest version of the SIMION Ion Optics software is available from Ion Source Software. This is a a full asymmetric 3D modeling code that includes electrostatics and magnetics.
  71. CPO Charged Particle Optics provides programs for solving charged particle optics problems using the surface charge method. Student versions of the program are available at no cost. (updated link)
  72. Crystal Office is a software package designed to easily access space group information and visualize crystal structures (requires Microsoft Windows). ESM Software distributes this package. (updated link)
  73. CrystalMaker is an interactive crystallography program for the Apple Macintosh. CrystalMaker is sold by Cambridge University Technical Services Ltd.
  74. The Charles Evans & Associates homepage describes the surface analysis services offered by this company. The page also includes links to very useful surface analysis tutorials on SIMS, RBS, and AES.
  75. Surface Measurement Systems of London, UK manufactures gravimetric adsorption systems for the characterization of particulate materials. (updated link)
  76. Honer Corporation manufactures a variety of optical surface sensors and smart encoders.
  77. Element Analysis Corporation provides non-destructive elemental analysis services using PIXE, proton-induced gamma analysis, and fast neutron activation analysis techniques. Analysis of thin film samples with PIXE is available.
  78. Roger Smith's homepage at Loughborough includes links to some of his sputtering animations. (updated link)
  79. My mainpage includes links to our recent publications and to brief summaries of our recent research activities.
  80. Roger Webb's home page at the University of Surrey includes links to his research work. (updated link)
  81. The Ontario Centre for Materials Research links university researchers with industrial users of materials technology and knowledge. (updated link)
  82. Barbara Garrison's page at Penn State has descriptions of the recent MD simulation work in her group.
  83. Nick Winograd's page at Penn State has information about experimental ion-surface work carried out in his group, and a complete listing of recent publications.
  84. The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences homepage at Oak Ridge National Laboratory includes descriptions of research and facilities at this site. (updated link and information)
  85. The Tandem Van de Graaff Accelerator Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory homepage includes information about their Single Event Upset Testing facility. They also can provide a wide variety of ion beams for ion irradiation and implantation work. (updated link)
  86. Raul Baragiola's Particle-Solid page at the University of Virginia has links to the e-mail addresses for the particle-solid mailing lists, as well as information on conferences, new books, etc. (updated link)
  87. The Ion Beam Physics homepage at ETH Zurich describes the work of the Ion Beam Physics group at ETH. (updated link)
  88. Dr. H. Urbassek's homepage at Kaiserslautern describes the work of his group, and includes a list of recent publications and a computer animation. (updated link)
  89. The Electron Beam Ion Trap home page at Lawrence Livermore National Lab describes some of the work that is done with highly charged ion beams at this lab. (updated link)
  90. The Electron Beam Ion Trap home page at NIST provides information about the work of Dr. John D. Gillaspy and coworkers.
  91. Peter Sigmund's homepage at the University of Southern Denmark includes links to his recent publications. (updated link)
  92. Mari Weller's home page at Middle Tennessee State University includes several recent references to her work on ion implantation and sputtering. (updated link)
  93. Bob Weller's home page at Vanderbilt includes information about his research projects.
  94. The Ion Beam Materials Research Laboratory facilities at Sandia are described on their homepage. These facilities are available to outside users. (updated link)
  95. The Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research at Rossendorf, Germany homepage describes the work of seven different groups at the Institute. The Institute also operates the European Large-Scale Facility: Center for Application of Ion Beams in Materials Research
  96. The Department of Theory of Ion-Solid Interactions at Rossendorf pages describe the work of Dr. Matthais Posselt's group and also includes information on obtaining and using Crystal-TRIM.
  97. The Brown Bag Preprint List includes recent preprints from the Basic and Applied Physics Group (T.A. Tombrello) at Caltech. Download our latest preprint. (updated 12/2/01)
  98. The Interface Science Western homepage at the University of Western Ontario provides an entry point to the facilities and research of this group (Willy Lennard, Ian Mitchell, Martin Zinke-Allmang, et al.).
  99. Joshua Jortner's Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry homepage has links to his research activities on energetic cluster impacts. (updated link)
  100. The Los Alamos Ma/terials Science and Technology Division homepage describes their facilities and capabilities. (updated link)
  101. The Nanoelectronics Lab homepage at the University of Cincinnati has links to the focused ion beam research projects of Dr. Andrew Steckl and his students. (updated link)
  102. The Plasma Material Interaction Group homepage at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne describes the research of Dr. David Ruzic and students.i (updated link)
  103. The Laboratory for Atomic and Surface Physics homepage at the University of Virginia includes links to the Ion Beam Laboratory, Laboratory for Space Research, and the Surface Science Center that compose LASP. Links also can be found here to the research work of Raul Baragiola, Bob Johnson, and colleagues.
  104. The Atomic Collisions and Plasmas homepage at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria includes links to the work of Prof. Fritz Aumayr's group.
  105. Dr. Duncan Weathers homepage at the University of North Texas includes a list of recent publications.
  106. The MeV Cluster homepage at Erlangen includes links to the research of Helmut Voit and colleagues on high energy cluster impacts. (updated link)
  107. The National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) homepage includes links to their various research groups and divisions. (updated link)
  108. The Princeton Materials Institute homepage includes a link to their facilities and equipment that is available to outside users. (updated links)
  109. The homepage for the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory, headed by Prof. Gary Was, describes current research projects and lab capabilities in ion irradiation, thin film growth and materials analysis. Lab facilities are available to external users.
  110. The homepage for the II. Physikalisches Institut Universität Göttingen describes the work of Profs. Hans Hofsaess and K.-P. Lieb on nuclear solid state physics and materials research.
  111. The Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate homepage of the U.S. Naval Research Lab includes links to much of the materials and ion-beam related work at the laboratory. (updated link)
  112. The Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory homepage at the University of North Texas includes descriptions of their capabilities and research programs. They also have some nice pictures of damage caused by a 20 uA O beam to a glass viewing port.
  113. The Particle Optics Research Group homepage at the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands) includes information about their research projects (auger-coincidence electron microscopy and nanofabrication with ion beams).
  114. The Micro Analytical Research Centre homepage at the University of Melbourne includes information on the research activities of Dr. D.N. Jamieson and coworkers. (updated link)
  115. The Ion Beam Characlterization and Modification of Materials page at SUNY, Albany describes the work of Profs. Walt Gibson, Bill Lanford, and coworkers. (updated link)
  116. Wayne Rabalais page at the University of Houston includes a description of recent research and publications. (updated link)
  117. The Directed Energy Interactions with Surfaces Group homepage at Argonne National Lab includes information about the research of Mike Pellin, Wally Calaway and coworkers.
  118. The Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscope Facility at Argonne National Laboratory provides expertise and instrumentation for the microcharcterization of materials and process for both ANL and non-ANL users. (updated information and link)
  119. The University of Trento research page desribes the work of the ion implantation group headed by Antonio Miotello. (updated link)
  120. The Jory Yarmoff's homepage at U.C. Riverside includes information about the impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy work of his group as well as other surface science research they carry out.
  121. Tom Tombrello's homepage at Caltech describes many of his recent research interests, and includes a short list of recent publications (also see the Brownbag Preprint List). (updated link)
  122. The Surface Physics Group homepage at TU Wien describes the research of W. Hofer, M. Schmid, P. Varga and collaborators. It also includes a link to some very nice STM pictures of preferentially sputtered surfaces.
  123. The homepage of the Howard J. Foster Center for Irradiation of Materials at Alabama A&M University includes links to the ion beam modification of materials research of Dr. Daryush Ila and coworkers. (updated link)
  124. The Wonderful World of Atoms and Nuclei homepage celebrates the 25th anniversary of GSI Darmstadt. It includes a link to their use of heavy ions in materials research.
  125. The Atomic Collisions Division homepage at Bariloche includes brief descriptions of the research interests and activities of four groups - Atomic Collisions Theory, Electron Emission Induced by Atomic Collision, Energy Loss of Particles in Matter, and the Surface Physics Group. (updated link and information)
  126. The Thin Film Lab homepage at Florida International University describes the work on Dr. F.K. Urban III and his students on ionized cluster beam thin film deposition. (updated link)
  127. The faculty page at the Georgia Tech Physics Department includes links to the pages of Uzi Landman, Edward W. Thomas and Robert L. Whetten. (updated links)
  128. The Schonland Research Institute of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa includes descriptions of particle-solid, and ion implantation studies carried out by the particle-solid and ion implantation groups. (updated link and information)
  129. The Physical Chemistry Faculty page at UCLA includes links to the research groups of Delroy A. Baugh and R. Stanley Williams. Professor Williams' page includes some exceptionally good atomic force microscope maps of CuCl.
  130. The Graves Group's Home Page at U.C. Berkeley (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) includes links to their simulation work on the interactions of very low energy ions with silicon surfaces.
  131. The Plasma Source Ion Implantation Laboratory homepage at the University of Wisconsin - Madison describes the work of Dr. John R. Conrad's ion implantation group.
  132. The homepage of the Physical/Theoretical Chemistry group at the University of Bristol includes links to the work of David Field and Paul May on the sputtering of interstellar dust grains.
  133. The homepage for Emile Schweikert's group at Texas A&M University includes a list of recent publications as well as a description of the group's work.
  134. Peter Williams homepage at Arizona State University includes a description of his research interests and a list of recent publications. (updated link)
  135. The Surface Science page at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire includes links to the work of Kim Pierson. This group actively involves undergraduates in its experimental research program. (updated link)
  136. The UK Surface Analysis Forum Site provides a wealth of information and links of use to those with interests in electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis, SIMS, and surface science in general. .
  137. The Condensed Matter Sector homepage at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy includes links to their surface physics, and molecular dynamics groups.
  138. The Surface Science and Materials Physics page at Arizona State University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy includes information about the research of Robert Culbertson, Nicole Herbots, Ig Tsong, and John Venables. (updated link)
  139. John Venables' page at Arizona State University offers a number of general resources related to surfaces and thin films.
  140. The homepage of the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam provides links to groups at the institute carrying out work in ion implantation and on thin films. (updated link)
  141. The Nuclear Solid State Physics Group (NVSF) homepage at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) includes links to current research of the group including an interesting description of a "softlanding ion deposition" technique for depositing radioactive ions on surfaces.
  142. The home page of L. Elizabeth (Liz) Seiberling at the University of Florida includes links to her Surface Physics Group known as the SeiberNauts.
  143. Leonard Feldman's home page at Vanderbilt University includes information about his recent research. (updated link)
  144. The Device Materials Group at Cambridge University carries out research on thin film growth by UHV sputtering and laser ablation.
  145. Bruce V. King's homepage at the University of Newcastle (Australia) includes a list of recent publications and a description of his research on the analysis and modification of thin films and solid surfaces. (updated link)
  146. The Condensed Matter & Materials Physics group homepage at University College London includes information on their research interests in areas such as the theory of implanted muons and reverse monte carlo simulations. (updated link)
  147. The Thin Film Division homepage at Linköping University in Sweden includes links to people and research programs at this laboratory.
  148. Dr. Susan B. Sinnott's homepage at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida includes information about her molecular dynamics simulations of chemical processes in cluster collisions with surfaces and her other research interests. (Updated Link)
  149. The Efthimios Kaxiras homepage at Harvard University includes information about interatomic potentials used in their modeling work on surfaces and solids. (updated link)
  150. The Ion-Surface Interaction Research homepage of the Multicharged Ion Research Facility (MIRF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory includes links to the publications from this group.
  151. The CNR-LAMEL Ion Beam Analysis server list links to sites in Italy that carry out research using ion beam analysis techniques. (updated link)
  152. Gregor Schiwietz' Fast Ion-Solid Interactions page describes his group's work at the Hahn-Meitner Institute on both theoretical and experimental aspects of fast ion collisions with surfaces. Gregor recently made a new electronic stopping power program (CasP) available for download. (updated information)
  153. The Division SF homepage at the Hahn-Meitner Institute provides information on the structurE and dynamics section of the solid state physics division at the institute. (updated link)
  154. Bohumila Lencova's homepage at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences describes her work on electron optics.
  155. Dr. Richard J. Smith's Surface Science/Ion Beams Group page at Montana State University includes descriptions of the group's research projects and abstracts of recent publications.
  156. Dr. Dennis C. Jacobs' homepage at the University of Notre Dame includes descriptions of his group's work on experimental investigations of chemical reactions at surfaces induced by particle impacts.
  157. Jim Ziegler's webpage includes links to information on his programs for the stopping and range of ions in matter (SRIM), ion beam analysis (IBA), and soft errors in electronics from cosmic rays. SRIM 2003 is now available for download. (updated link and information)
  158. The Atomic Collisions in Solids (CAS) Group homepage at the Nuclear Physics Institute of Lyon describes their research work with molecular ions and clusters. (updated link)
  159. The Cambridge Accelerator for Materials Science at Harvard University has facilities for RBS, PIXE, and FRES analysis techniques, which are available to the scientific community. Visit their home page for more information. (updated link
  160. Dr. Daniel Marble's research page at Tarleton State University includes information on his materials characterization research with ion beams. (updated link)
  161. The Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has recently completed an accelerator dedicated to ion beam modification and analysis of materials. This facility is open to outside users, and is well equipped for surface studies. (updated link)
  162. The World of Beams is an educational site devoted to the physics of beams. It is operated by the Center for Beam Physics at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. (updated links)
  163. Maarten Vos at the Research School of Physics of the Australian National University uses electron momentum spectroscopy to study the electronic structure of materials. (updated link)
  164. Luke Hanley's group at the University of Illinois at Chicago studies the preparation of new materials by polyatomic ion deposition and the surface modification and analysis of biomaterials. (updated link)
  165. Scott Anderson's group at the University of Utah uses ion scattering for isomer analysis, and also investigates solid-solid reactions by cluster deposition.
  166. The Ion Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials group at the Australian National University led by Dr. Rob Elliman carries out both fundamental and applied research in ion beam analysis and materials modification using ion beams.
  167. V.A. Esaulov's group at the University of Paris, South carries out research on particle surface interaction dynamics.
  168. Dr. Vladimir Tchoutko's homepage provides information on the application of ion-beam techniques to the fabrication of high precision optical surfaces and coatings.
  169. The Louisiana Accelerator Center (formerly Acadiana Research Lab) offers surface modification and characterization facilities to scientists and engineers in Louisiana. It also provides educational opportunities in ion-solid interactions to K-12 teachers and students within a wide radius of the lab. (updated link)
  170. Dr. Eduardo M. Bringa's homepage describes his research on electronic sputtering and track formation. He also maintains a page of links to Molecular Dynamics resources.
  171. Vladimir U. Nazarov's web page at Kyushu Institute of Technology describes his research activities on the the theory of EELS and dynamic screening at surfaces.
  172. Zbigniew Postawa's home page at the Institute of Physics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland describes the work of his group on the interaction of low-energy particles with organic films.
  173. Marek Szymonski's home page also at Jagiellonian University describes the work of his group on the interaction of ions with alkalai halides.
  174. Daniel Danailov's web page describes his current research work on MD Simulations of carbon nanotube materials and other topics in surface science. (updated link)
  175. The Nanophysics of Thin Film Evolution Group at Delft University of Technology does experimental and computational research on thin film growth under ion bombardment. The modified embedded-atom molecular dynamics program CAMELION can be downloaded from this site.
  176. The Radiation Solid Interactions and Processing Department at Sandia National Laboratories uses ion beams to analyze the composition of virtually any material, and for the basic study of material defects. This is a DOE Designated User Facility.
  177. The Nanostructure & Semiconductor Physics Department at Sandia National Laboratories investigates the kinetics and microstructure of thin film synthesis.
  178. The Laboratory of Radiation Solid State Physics in Obninsk, Russia carries out research on radiation damage and transient phenomena in materials under intensive pulsed or continuous radiation.
  179. The Institute of Solids and Interface Process Technology at the Munich University of Technology carries out research on particle interactions and particle surface properties in nanoparticulate systems.
  180. Valery Biryukov's Channeling page at IHEP Protvino (Russia) describes the IHEP's research on bent crystal channeling and its application at high-energy accelerators.
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Conferences:

  1. The Gordon Research Conferences homepage includes a list of all Gordon Conferences scheduled for 2005, as well as on-line registration forms.
  2. The XXIV International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (XXIV ICPEAC) will take place in Rosario, Argentina, from July 20-26, 2005. (new)
  3. The 17th International Conference on Ion-Surface Interactions ISI-2005 will be held in Zvenigorod near Moscow from 25 to 29 August 2005. (new)
  4. The 13th International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators REI-2005 will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico from August 31 - September 5, 2005. (new)
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Thin Film Depth Profiling by Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) The IBA DataFurnace is a code to extract elemental depth profiles from IBA spectra (including RBS, ERD & NRA). DataFurnace uses the "simulated annealing" algorithm to fit spectra without intervention by the user. Multiple spectra can be fitted simultaneously. Moderate roughness can also be parameterised and fitted according to the schema of Barradas et al: NIM B94 (1994) 266-270 (see Barradas NIM B190, 2002, 247-251, for a reworking of these data with DataFurnace). The University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre has recently released the IBA DataFurnace v7.8e. A very new feature is the ability to specify the form of the depth profile for one element, which DataFurnace will fit the parameters of. A comprehensive review of DataFurnace can be found in Jeynes et al: J.Phys.D 36 (2003) R97-R126. We will be attending the MRS 2003 Fall meeting in Boston (December 2-4): exhibition stall 1208. We welcome users or potential users to bring their own data which we can fit on the spot for you. Demonstration code and more details can be found on www.ee.surrrey.ac.uk/ibc/ndf

SRIM - Lessons and Tutorials
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Several lessons are available to help students learn how to use SRIM. Each lessons is designed to take about 45 minutes. For background details, see the TRIM Manual which can be downloaded from the SRIM website. We would like to hear from any Instructors who use SRIM in university courses and have built similar modules. We especially need modules written in languages other than English. If you have anything that might be useful, please mail a copy to Ziegler@SRIM.org with an explanation of what level of students can use it.

The following lessons are 45 minutes in length, and used for Engineering undergraduates.

Ion Ranges - This tutorial discusses how to find the ion type and energy to implant an n- well in a CMOS circuit. No knowledge of electronics is required, it is just an example. The student uses the Stopping and Range Tables to find the correct ion energy. The student then sets up TRIM to calculate the full profile and to estimate the damage produces. The final step is to determine if an amorphous layer has been produced in the target..

Damage - This tutorial describes how ions damage crystalline material, creating displacements, vacancies, interstitials and replacement collisions. Each of these is clearly defined, along with a discussion of typical associated energies. Finally, a discussion is made of energy loss to the target electrons (electronic losses) and to the target nuclei (phonons).

Mixing and Sputtering - This tutorial discusses how to analyze interface mixing and cross-contamination between layers. Then it discusses target sputtering, and the limitations on calculating this factor using only theoretical calculations. In particular, the effects of surface roughening and surface damage are discussed.

Building Layered Targets - This tutorial shows the student how to construct a Gas Proportional Detector target for an ion beam. This is a mixed solid/gas target, and the student learns how to adjust widths during the TRIM calculation so that immediate feed- back allows quick determination of the correct detector dimensions. A final segment of the lesson describes special options available in TRIM to made more advanced calculations.


Wolfgang Christen of Humbolt University (Berlin) has announced a new mailing list specifically for the cluster-science community. This email-based discussion forum can be used to discuss scientific questions, to announce conferences, new publications, vacant academic and post-doctoral positions, and other news in cluster science. You are cordially invited to join this mailing list. You may find more information about this cluster-science mailing list at the following web page:

 http://mailinglist.wolfgang-christen.net/mailinglist.php (updated link)

Wolfgang also has announced a new web site specifically for the cluster science community. It can be found at: http://cluster-science.net

Jim Ziegler has a new web page for his SRIM and Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) programs: http://www.srim.org. His new email address is Ziegler@SRIM.org. Joachim Biersack also can be reached at this site: Biersack@SRIM.org.

The Research Corporation, which has a variety of programs that support research initiation, now has a web site describing its various funding opportunities. (posted 11/4/96)
 

Particle-Solid Mailing List Update

The particle-solid mailing list psolid@ee.surrey.ac.uk is now being moderated by Roger Webb at Surrey. Many thanks to Raul Baragiola, who moderated the list for the past several years.

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