Facilities
Laser Materials Lab
The laser materials lab has been used over the past few years for identifying and correcting defects in Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 laser rods from commercial suppliers.
Thermal Fluid Lab
The Thermal Fluids Laboratory houses two high pressure vertical Bridgman furnaces and other equipment for growth of single crystal PMN-PT, for transducers and piezoelectric devices. There is also an RF Czochralski furnace being used to grow Scintillator and Optical material systems.
Solid State Detector Laboratory
The solid state detector laboratory contains state-of-the-art equipment for testing and characterizing material for high resolution x-ray and gamma ray detectors.
Semiconductor Lab
The Center’s semiconductor laboratory houses equipment to grow, cut, polish, adhere electrodes and perform physical inspection of the Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystal detectors.
Positron Lab
The Center operates a state of the art antimatter research facility located in the Physics department at WSU. We also have one located in ETRL referred to as the W.M. Keck Research Lab.The positron beam is counted among the best facilities in the world and is used for fundamental and applied physics investigations. Currently a long term research project is underway to store large amounts of positrons to allow for the possibility, amongst others, of antimatter propulsion. This addresses several fundamental issues about storage and the behavior of large densities of positrons.
X-Ray Microscopy Lab
The X-Ray Microscopy Lab is located in ETRL 016 and houses a Hytec Flash CT micro x-ray and a new Zeiss Xradia Ultra 810 with 3D imaging down to 50nm resolution. Our rates are listed below.
