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contactcontact Dr. Jorge A.
LopezLópez (jorgelopez@utep.edu)
,Equipment
EQUIPMENT
- PHI 5600 XPS X-ray photoelectron Spectrometer
- Orion 5 Thin film sputtering
- X-MET 3000 Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence
- MARKUS 10
- Specifications of equipment
- OmniFocus III small area lens
- Multi channel detector
- 10-360 spherical capacitor analyzer
- Includes monochromator and OMNI III lens and MCD detector and scanning AES option.
- XPS sensitivity: Magnesium anode specified performance obtained with single Mg anode operating at 400 W (26.7 mA and 15 kV) on a sample of clean silver.
- Analysis area: Selected by an externally fixed 1-position aperture and by a computer-controlled analyzer (150 um analysis area)
- Environmental requirements:
- Magnetic fields: less than 0.3 uT (3 mG) peak-to-peak, alternating field, less than 1G static field
- Heat dissipation: 3,000 W under typical operating conditions, 10,000 W additional during system breakout
- Utility requirements: 200-240 VAC, 1 phase, 50-60 Hz, 50 A (to be hardwired to separate 60 A branch circuit by customer)
- Dry nitrogen: 0.279 kg/cm^2 (4 psi) max
- Compressed air: 5.6 to 7.0 kg/cm^2 at 0.17 m^3/hr (80 to 100 psig at 0.1 CFM), pressure-regulated for vibration-isolated console and automatic valve control options only
To be replaced
- Underground radon gas detector
SOFTWARE
- Molecular dynamics
- GEANT 4
- PyMCA (see istructions here)
WEB PAGES
- Nuclear Physics Wiki Page
- MASE 6402 and MME 5401 Wiki Page
- Physics Department Nuclear and Surface Physics page
CURRENT STUDIES
- Molecular dynamics
Contact
- Dr. Jorge A. López (jorgelopez@utep.edu),
- Dr. Carlos Díaz Moreno (carlos.alejandro.diaz.moreno@gmail.com)
- Enrique Ramírez-Homs (enraho@gmail.com).
- Germán Rodríguez (germanrdz1@gmail.com)
- Israel Chavarría (ichavarria4@miners.utep.edu)