{"id":814,"date":"2022-06-01T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/physics\/?page_id=814"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:43:53","slug":"research-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/student-resources\/research-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accelerator Laboratory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarleton&#8217;s 1.0 MV tandem accelerator is one of only six at undergraduate institutions in the US and the only one not at a private school or a military academy. This state-of-the-art facility provides research opportunities in both basic research and in the application of accelerator technique for the analysis and modification of materials including Rutherford backscattering and Particle Induced X-Ray Emission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ion Beam Analysis<\/strong><ul><li>Research includes the study of gun barrel erosion, delamination of gun barrels, development of novel electronic and magnetic materials including high-temperature diffusion barriers, wide bandgap semiconductors, and spintronics. Other applications include the analysis of air and water pollution samples.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Ion-atom Collisions<\/strong><ul><li>Study of fundamental interactions between ions and atoms including x-ray production mechanisms both as a basic study of quantum mechanics and for applications including astrophysics and engineering.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Observatory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarleton has the largest telescope at any undergraduate only physics program. The telescope is not only the largest telescope in the Texas A&amp;M System, but larger than those used by Texas Tech, U of H, UTA, and other Ph.D. astronomy programs. Present research is center on studying the light curves and life cycles of binary stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Microscopy Facility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarleton&#8217;s microscopy facility includes a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope with a 3.5 nm resolution. The facility supports research on electronics and other materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laser Facility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility includes a laser table with a variety of lasers and optical sources and research-grade optics&nbsp;for holography and interferometry experiments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accelerator Laboratory Tarleton&#8217;s 1.0 MV tandem accelerator is one of only six at undergraduate institutions in the US and the only one not at a private school or a military &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":580,"parent":805,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-814","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/author\/kyle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3\/","display_name":"kyle"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 1, 2022","modified":"Updated on June 16, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 1, 2022 3:25 pm","modified":"Updated on June 16, 2022 6:43 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}