Renovation of Laboratories in Meyer Hall

迈耶大厅，建于1963年，是家庭物理系的校园内的科罗拉多学校的矿业。 该设施主要是为非物理科学和工程本科生提供入门课程的设施，不足以支持目前由20名教师，40名研究生和100名本科生进行的大量研究活动。 该部门的两个主要研究重点是凝聚态物理学和材料科学。 随着这些领域的实验工作的增加，有毒化学品和危险加工程序的使用大大增加，该设施无法容纳研究。 目前，这些活动分散在整个建筑中，通常位于教室，教学实验室或办公室附近。 由于建筑物内没有专门设计的地方供安全处理这些材料，这种情况很快变得无法容忍。 边缘设施通风不良，并包括许多临时安全结构。 随着凝聚态科学的进步，样品制备能力是重要的和需要的，特别是在半导体器件物理学和表面科学中。 为了纠正和改善这种状况，科罗拉多矿业学院将从学术研究基础设施计划中获得资金，以翻新位于四楼的一个区域，作为安全处理有毒化学品和危险材料的专用设施。翻修将包括重新配置空间和改善基础设施，以及安装通风柜、长凳、橱柜和手套箱。 还将建立化学品储存设施和一个小型洁净室。 材料处理和加工实验室的翻新将为该部门提供现代化的设施，支持金属光学特性，半导体加工，薄膜生长和非晶硅特性的研究。 该设施不仅将有利于物理系的研究项目，而且将加强科罗拉多先进材料研究所附属研究人员进行的几个研究项目，该研究所是一个国家材料计划，涉及促进选定技术的研究和经济发展。

Meyer Hall, constructed in 1963, is home to the Department of Physics on the campus of the Colorado School of the Mines. Primarily designed as a facility for the delivery of introductory courses to non-physics science and engineering undergraduates, the facility is inadequate to support the voluminous research activities currently being conducted by 20 faculty members, 40 graduate students, and 100 undergraduate students. Two major emphases of research in the department are in condensed matter physics and materials science. As experimental work in these areas has increased, the use of toxic chemicals and hazardous processing procedures has greatly expanded and the facility is unable to accommodate research. Currently, these activities are dispersed throughout the building, often located near classrooms, instructional laboratories, or offices. Since there are no areas in the building designed specifically to accommodate the safe handling of such materials, the situation has rapidly become intolerable. The marginal facility is poorly ventilated, and includes a number of temporary safety structures. With advances in condensed matter science, sample preparation capabilities are important and needed, especially in semiconductor device physics and in surface science. To rectify and improve this condition, the Colorado School of the Mines will receive funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program to renovate an area located on the fourth floor as a dedicated facility for the safe handling of toxic chemical and hazardous materials. The renovation will consists of reconfiguring space and improving infrastructural utilities, in addition to installing fume hoods, benches, cabinets, and glove boxes. chemical storage facilities and a small clean room will be created as well. Renovation of the materials handling and processing laboratories will provide the department with modern facilities crucial in supporting research in optical properties of metals, semiconductor processing, thin film growth, and the characterization of amorphous silicon. The facility will not only benefit research programs in the Physics Department, but several research projects conducted by researchers affiliated with Colorado Advanced Materials Institute, a State materials program involved with promoting research and economic development in selected technologies, will be enhanced.