U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: Synchrotron Radiation Methods for Structural Studies of Materials

该奖项将使斯坦福大学的Keith Hodgson教授领导的一组研究人员在日本筑波国家高能物理实验室的Chikawa博士的指导下，在两年的时间内进行合作。研究人员将利用同步辐射生产的最新进展，加上X射线探测器的进步，对材料结构进行新的实验。由日本研究人员开发的用于X射线衍射和散射应用的X射线探测器系统将与斯坦福实验室开发的非常高亮度的光子源相结合，以研究薄膜、结构的时间分辨变化和生物分子结构。这一材料结构研究计划将继续美国和日本实验室在单色仪和仪器设计、摇摆器和波动器插入设备开发以及机器操作和改进方面多年的科学和技术交流。

This award will enable a group of researchers headed by Professor Keith Hodgson of Stanford University to collaborate with researchers under the direction of Dr. Jun-ichi Chikawa at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics in Tsukuba, Japan over a two-year period. Investigators will take advantage of recent advances in the production of synchrotron radiation, coupled with advances in x-ray detectors, to carry out new experiments on the structure of materials. X-ray detector systems, developed by Japanese researchers for x-ray diffraction and scattering applications, will be coupled with a very high brilliance source of photons developed at Stanford laboratories to study thin films, time-resolved changes in structure, and the structure of biological molecules. This program of structural studies of materials will continue many years of scientific and technical exchange between the U.S. and Japanese laboratories in areas of monochromator and instrument design, wiggler and undulator insertion device development, and machine operation and improvements.