MRI: Acquisition of a Multifunctional X-Ray Diffraction System for Multidisciplinary Research and Education

技术摘要博伊西州立大学（BSU）将获得一个多功能X射线衍射系统（XRD），用于多学科研究和教育。这种最先进的仪器将配备一个铜管X射线发生器，交叉光束光学，广角测角仪，衍射光束光学，闪烁探测器，小角散射单元，冷和热阶段，先进的薄膜测量单元，和劳厄单位。对于包括纳米结构、生物矿物、蛋白质晶体、薄膜、半导体、金属、陶瓷、聚合物、病毒晶体和纳米晶体在内的晶体物体，X射线衍射是用于分析原子和分子的局部和全局排列的通用工具。 XRD将服务于六个部门的十五个以上的教师。项目涵盖了纳米技术和其他材料相关领域的各种主题，包括：通过还原形成的纳米颗粒，嵌段共聚物中的纳米相结构，纳米磁力学，新型存储材料，矿物中的生物还原转化，合金中的相变，铁磁薄膜，胶原蛋白，自旋电子学，电子材料和相识别。该战略将大大加强和促进现有的和正在发展的部门间和机构间的国家和国际合作。XRD将成为学生培训以及本科生和研究生研究的主要资源。XRD将用于几个本科和研究生水平的课程，包括PHYS 523，材料表征的物理方法，在MSE研究生课程的核心课程，以及地质学和生物学课程。莱摘要博伊西州立大学是一个快速发展的大都市研究机构，位于博伊西，爱达荷州，在该国发展最快的高科技地区之一。美光科技和其他当地公司需要表征专业知识，并派遣员工到BSU接受纳米技术主题（包括材料表征）的培训。通过新的XRD，我们通过吸引更多的学生到科学和工程，通过改善本科和研究生阶段的科学和工程教育，并通过促进尖端的基础研究和与当地产业的互动来应对这一需求。XRD将被用作小学生图尔斯参观的演示工具，包括每年在工程学院为9年级和10年级女生举办的为期两天的冒险活动“电子女孩”，并将作为展示工具促进科学和工程专业的招生。它将大量利用本科生做跨学科材料未成年人和化学，物理，地球科学，生物学和材料科学与工程专业的研究。它也将是一个主要的表征工具，为大量和越来越多的研究生和教师。通过新的XRD，BSU将通过培训熟练的科学家和工程师来满足爱达荷州南部快速发展的高科技和纳米技术产业日益增长的科学和教育需求。

Technical AbstractBoise State University (BSU) will acquire a multifunctional x-ray diffraction system (XRD) for multidisciplinary research and education. This state-of-the-art instrumentation will be equipped with a Cu tube x-ray generator, cross beam optics, a wide angle goniometer, diffracted-beam optics, a scintillation detector, a small angle scattering unit, cold and hot stages, an advanced thin film measurement unit, and a Laue unit. For crystalline objects including nanostructures, biominerals, protein crystals, thin films, semiconductors, metals, ceramics, polymers, virus crystals, and nanocrystals, x-ray diffraction is a versatile tool used to analyze local and global arrangements of atoms and molecules. The XRD will serve more than fifteen faculty of six departments. Projects cover a diverse range of topics of nanotechnology and other materials-related areas including: nanoparticles formed via reduction, nanophase structures in block copolymers, nano-magneto-mechanics, novel storage materials, bioreductive transformations in minerals, phase transformations in alloys, ferromagnetic thin films, collagen, spintronics, electronic materials, and phase identification. The XRD will significantly enhance and foster existing and developing inter-departmental and inter-institutional national and international collaborations. The XRD will become a major resource for student training and undergraduate and graduate student research. The XRD will be utilized in several undergraduate and graduate level courses including PHYS 523, Physical Methods of Materials Characterization, a core course in the MSE graduate program, and courses in Geology and Biology.Lay AbstractBoise State University is a rapidly growing metropolitan research institution located in Boise, Idaho, one of the fastest growing high technology regions in the country. Micron Technology and other local companies are in need of characterization expertise and send their employees to BSU for training in nanotechnology subjects including materials characterization. With the new XRD we respond to this demand by attracting more students to science and engineering, by improving science and engineering education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and by fostering cutting-edge basic research and interaction with local industry. The XRD will be used as a demonstration instrument for tours by grade school children including a yearly two-day adventure "e-Girls" for female students in 9th and 10th grade held at the College of Engineering, and will promote recruitment in science and engineering by serving as a showcase instrument. It will be heavily utilized by undergraduates doing research in the interdisciplinary materials minor and by majors in chemistry, physics, geosciences, biology and materials science and engineering. It will also be a chief characterization tool for a large and growing number of graduate students and faculty. Through the new XRD, BSU will accomplish the increasing scientific and educational needs of the rapidly growing high-tech and nanotechnology industry of Southern Idaho by training skilled scientists and engineers.