At UCSD, we have set up an X-ray laboratory with a 3 kW X-ray tube source and a 4-circle diffractometer, which is used for studying reflectivity from thin films, powder diffraction patterns and can also be used for single crystal studies. We also have a spin-coater for preparing polymer films on substrates, along with an ellipsometer for assessing film thickness, and are setting up a facility for carrying out dynamic and static light scattering studies. We have recently acquired a 12 kW rotating anode X-ray source and diffractometer, which is shared with the groups of Professors Schuller and Maple. These facilities are used for preparing samples and for preliminary inspection of samples we plan to take to the synchrotron or neutron facilities (see below).

For the bulk of our X-ray and neutron scattering studies, we use large facilities across the United States and around the world.

• Advanced Light Source (ALS), Berkeley, CA.

• Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne, IL.

• National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Upton, NY.

• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), Menlo Park, CA.

Neutron sources

• Manuel Lujan Neutron Scattering Centre (LANSCE), Los Alamos, NM.

• NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD.

• Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS), Argonne, IL.

• ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, UK.

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