Authors
Citation
Ca. Brau et Mh. Mendenhall, THE VANDERBILT-UNIVERSITY FREE-ELECTRON LASER CENTER, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 331(1-3), 1993, pp. 10219004-10219006
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
331
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
10219004 - 10219006
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1993)331:1-3<10219004:TVFLC>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
One year after commissioning, the Vanderbilt University Free-Electron
Laser Center has matured to the point where it routinely delivers 40 h
of beam time per week to users from the US and abroad for experiments
in medicine, biology, and materials science. Well-equipped laboratori
es and a complete animal surgical suite have made it possible to obser
ve band discontinuities in semiconductors, measure the binding energy
of DNA, and demonstrate precision machining of bone. In the future, th
e wavelengths available will be extended to the far infrared and to th
e medium-energy X-ray region, where experiments in cell dynamics and X
-ray triggered chemotherapy are possible.