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French Family Science Center (FFSC), and the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (FEL. Graduate students
conducting research in these buildings usually have their offices there.
About half of the Physics space is devoted to research laboratories for the department's programs. Among the
Special equipment housed in the department are: 1 GeV linear accelerator; a high current electron storage ring driving
an ultraviolet to soft X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL) (this facility is used, among other things, to produce a highintensity
gamma-ray source known as the HIGS); a high-resolution 4 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator; a 20 MeV
tandem Van de Graaff accelerator with polarized source and cryogenically-cooled polarized targets. In addition the
department houses a number of table top laboratories with state of the art equipment used in performing experiments
in hard and soft condensed matter, biophysics, nonlinear and complex systems, and optics. Examples include
ultrafast, high power, short wavelength, far-infrared and frequency-stabilized lasers, traps for ultra-cold atoms, highspeed
oscilloscopes, classical and quantum optical telecommunication systems, entangled-photon sources, specially
designed apparatus or soft matter experiments, conventional and ultra-high speed imaging equipment, cryostats,
superconducting magnets, and associated equipment for research in condensed matter physics. In addition a scanning
electron microscope with electron beam lithographic capability and other materials processing equipment is housed
in the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF). Located in the Physics Building is also an appropriately
staffed instrument shop.
The department also contains several computers for data collection and processing in all of the research groups
and a massively parallel computer system for use in particle, nuclear, and condensed matter theory research. Desktop
computers are typically provided for all grad students. The computing infrastructure is maintained and supported by
computing staff located in the physics building
The Physics Building is located near the Bostock Library, which contains a large selection of books and scholarly
periodicals.
Engineering Research Laboratories. The laboratories of the four departments of the Pratt School of Engineering
contain extensive state-of-the-art equipment that may be used in several specialized fields. With the Fall 2004 opening
of the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science (FCIEMAS), departmental
facilities already present in Hudson Hall are now complemented by extensive new infrastructure facilitating interaction
involving all Pratt departments and research centers and also working in close proximity to units from medicine and
the sciences. The Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) provides researchers with high quality and cost
effective access to advanced materials characterization and clean room fabrication capabilities. SMIF operates as a
multidisciplinary shared use facility, and is available to Duke University researchers from the various schools and
departments as well as to external users from other universities, government laboratories, and industry. SMIF is an
official Duke University recharge center open to all trained students, staff, and faculty, and is used for both research and
educational purposes. SMIF is housed in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied
Sciences (CIEMAS). The 11,000 square foot facility consists of 4,000 square feet of class 100 and class 1000 clean room
space, and over 2,600 square feet of specialized laboratory space for characterization equipment. The remainder of the
space is comprised of facility support areas, staff offices, and a conference/classroom.
Facilities available for instruction and research are suggested by the following representative listing of equipment
found in each department:
Biomedical Engineering. Biomechanics laboratories: 6 Terabyte RAID file server with LT03 nightly backup,
mechanical testing systems, optical displacement measuring system, 64 bit, 4 node, 12 processor Beowulf Computer
Cluster, Zonic modal analyzer, inverted microscopes and cell culture facilities. Biomedical materials and surface
interactions laboratories: air- and water-cooled Argon lasers, air convection oven, capillary rheometer, gel permeation
chromatograph, atomic force microscopes, ellipsometers, Real-Time PCR Detection Systems, liquid nitrogen cooled
CCD camera, Nikon inverted microscope with phase contrast and epifluorescence, image analysis systems, vacuum
oven, Zeiss axioplan microscope, cell culture facilities, electrophysiology and neurophysiology instrumentation.
Ultrasound imaging and Biophotonics laboratories, surgical facility; CAD/CAM stations for circuit development,
diamond tip dicing saw, high-speed video system, image processing system, laminar flow hoods, multiple PCs and work
stations, PC board maker, ultrasound mechanical scanner lasers, femtosecond pulsed light source, optical tables, basic
electronic and optical instruments, such as oscilloscopes and optical power meters, and a full complement of optomechanical
elements.
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering routinely design, construct,
and adapt laboratory equipment for specialized teaching and research tasks in engineering mechanics, environmental
engineering, geomechanics, structural engineering, and water resources engineering. In addition, arrays of standard
laboratory facilities are available to support each research area.
Research and teaching facilities in engineering mechanics, structural engineering, and geomechanics include
four independent closed-loop electrohydraulic dynamic loading systems (MTS), with a frequency range up to 100 Hz,
and ranges of load to capacity 6,000, 35,000, 50,000 and 220,000 lbs. The 6,000 lbs. actuator can develop a constant
crosshead speed up to 50,000 in./min. For teaching and research, the department has a 10,000 lb. universal testing
machine and a 10,000 lb. torsion machine both fully instrumented with computer data storage, as well as a Kistler
force plate with 10 decades of sensitivity. Equipment is available for fabricating specimens and testing fiberreinforced
polymer composites. An environmental chamber tests in the temperature range of -100º to +350º F;
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