Our Mission:

• Identification of new opportunities in basic and applied research.
• Coordination of research among participating institutions and outreach to industry.
• Organization of lecture series, topical groups and workshops.
• Acquisition of support for students, postdoctoral and visiting scholars.
• Establishment and maintenance of databases and information exchange between academic and non-academic institutions.

Our Research Interests:

• Controlled surface modifications with ion beams.
• Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS).
• Sputtering.
• Electron exchange and electron emission in ion-surface collisions.

Participating Institutions:

• Cornell University
• University of Florida
• Kansas State University
  • James R. Macdonald Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• National Institutes of Standards and Technnology (NIST)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • ORNL Multicharged Ion Research Facility

Participants:

• Fred W. Meyer, ORNL
• Victor Morozov, ORNL
• Dieter H. Schneider, LLNL
• Norman Bardsley, LLNL
• Alex Hamza, LLNL
• Alan V. Barnes, LLNL
• Thomas Schenkel, LLNL
• Uwe Thumm, KSU & JRM Lab
• Martin Stöckli, KSU & JRM Lab
• John D. Gillaspy, NIST
• Laura Ratliff, NIST Gaithersburg
• Jim Roberts, NIST Gaithersburg
• Ronnie Minniti, NIST Gaithersburg
• Vaclav O. Kostroun, Cornell
• Hai-Ping Cheng, Florida