Instrumentation Division overview
Mission
Develop state-of-the-art instrumentation for current and future Laboratory programs
Established
1948
Division Head
Veljko Radeka
Staff
- 28 Scientific/Professional
- 12 Technical
- 4 Administrative
Research Areas
- Semiconductor detectors
- Gas and Noble liquid detectors
- Microelectronics
- Lasers and Optics
- Micro/Nano fabrication
Facilities
- Clean rooms for semiconductor processing (Class 100) and detector fabrication
- Laser and optics laboratories
- Hybrid and integrated circuit design and testing
- Microfabrication and electron microscopy laboratory
- Vacuum deposition laboratory
- Printed circuit fabrication
- Irradiation facility
Highlights of Accomplishments
- Fast transistorized electronics for physics experiments (1956)
- First video game (1958))
- Positron emission tomography (PET) detector (1960))
- Neutron detectors (1973)
- Liquid argon calorimeter (1973)
- Synchrotron radiation detectors (1982)
- Silicon drift detector (1983)
- Long Trace Profiler (1987)
- Monolithic low-noise circuits (1990)
- Nanostructures (1994)
- Deep sub-micron low-noise circuits (1999)
Total Laboratory/Office Space
36,000 sq. feet
Last Modified: Wednesday, 02-May-2007 15:53:00 EDT
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