http://lsm.rutgers.edu/

The mission of the Laboratory for Surface Modification is to provide a focus for research in basic and applied studies of high technology surfaces and interfaces. Surface modification encompasses a broad spectrum of structural and chemical phenomena that occur on the surfaces of solids. Surface modification at the atomic level requires the overlap of many disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, and using these newly designed surfaces for technological applications involves several engineering efforts in electrical, chemical, biochemical and biomedical engineering.

The major goals of the laboratory are:

• to promote research on a cooperative basis between university departments, and with industry, other universities and government, to study fundamental phenomena underlying the science and technology of surface modification;
• to offer the facilities and curriculum necessary for training graduate and undergraduate students as engineers and scientists experienced in the field of surface modification;
• to promote active seminar programs and lecture series;
• to organize technical conferences in the science and technology of surface modification;
• to foster a forum for the exchange of ideas among the industrial, academic and governmental personnel involved in surface modification and analysis.

Medium Energy Ion Scattering (MEIS) machine
The Medium Energy Ion Scattering (MEIS) machine for ultra sensitive elemental analysis of ultra-thin films with ~few Angstrom depth resolution

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