Equipment Supplement to MBRS-SCORE Program at UPR-Cayey

描述（由申请人提供）：波多黎各大学Cayey分校的MBRS-SCORE项目于2001年5月1日开始。它的目标是建立一个有竞争力的生物医学研究基础，一个教师和研究基础设施的结合，将成为一个有竞争力的生物医学研究项目将在该机构进一步发展的核心。为了进一步加强这一承诺，UPR-Cayey向SCORE项目提供了15万美元，为期三年，以支持其两个研究项目和其他教师发展项目。这两个项目，一个是常规项目，一个是试点项目，都是在物理/材料科学应用于生物材料领域。提高这些项目的质量是本方案的最高优先事项之一。常规项目是合成具有生物医学意义的材料，使用物理气相沉积方法沉积为薄膜。该试点项目使用一些精心制备的具有有趣电子特性的薄膜来制造生物医学仪器中潜在用途的设备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MBRS-SCORE Program of the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR-Cayey) started on May 1, 2001. Its goal is to develop a competitive biomedical research foundation, a combination of faculty and research infrastructure that will be the nucleus around which a competitive biomedical research program will be further developed in the institution. To further strengthen this commitment UPR-Cayey granted $150,000 to the SCORE Program for three years to support its two research projects and other faculty development projects as well. Both projects, a regular and a pilot one, are in the area of Physics/Materials Science applied to biomaterials. It is one of the highest priorities of the Program to increase the quality of those projects. The regular project is in the synthesis of materials with biomedical interest, deposited as thin films, using physical vapor deposition methods. The pilot project uses some of those carefully prepared films with interesting electronic properties to make devices of potential use in biomedical instrumentation. The goal of this supplement is to acquire equipment that will enhance the progress of both research projects. Three pieces of equipment are solicited with the objectives of a) improving the performance of the thin films synthesis system, b) providing in-situ real time information of the films deposited, and c) measure the aerial thickness and surface roughness of the films. The accomplishment of these objectives will create a strong research physical infrastructure that will allow the investigators to develop a world-class research program. UPR-Cayey, committed with this effort, will create a fund for equipment maintenance equal to 15% of the indirect costs of the projects.