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including digital processing oscilloscopes and network and impedance analyzers, and
for computer-aided design; clean room and semiconductor nMOS fabrication
laboratory for integrated circuits; a molecular beam epitaxy laboratory for III-V
compound semiconductor crystal growth using a Riber Model 3R&D MBE system;
access to the design, fabrication, and research facilities of the Microelectronics Center of
North Carolina; and an ion implanter and MOCVD epitaxial growth system in a III-V
compound semiconductor lab at the Research Triangle Institute.
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. The department has a number of wellequipped
laboratories for studies in aerodynamics, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics and
chaos, microscale and convective heat transfer, computational fluid mechanics and heat
transfer, control theory, cell and membrane biomechanics, biorheology, polymer
engineering, corrosion, electronic materials, physical metallurgy, positron annihilation
spectroscopy, and expert systems. Equipment in these laboratories includes a wind
tunnel, a scanning electron microscope, a scanning tunneling microscope, doppler
broadening and lifetime positron systems, a liquid helium cryostat, DSC/DMA facilities
and diffusion furnace, inverted microscopes, low-light-level video cameras and a
photon counter, cell-culture systems, an anechoic chamber, a dynamic signal analyzer
and laser velocimeter for bearing analysis, an X-ray generator and diffractometer, FTIR
spectrometer, a high-power laser with lock-in amplifier, and a fluorescence microscope.
A variety of computational equipment is available including a mini-supercomputer
access to a regional supercomputer.
The Duke Hypo-Hyperbaric Center is a major center for research, treatment and
training involving hyperbaric and hypobaric exposure and simulation. The facility
includes the F. G. Hall Laboratory, a large multi-chamber complex, and supporting
clinical and laboratory services. Hyperbaric oxygen is used in the treatment of many
disorders, including decompression illness, gas gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning
and wound healing. The hyperbaric facility is fully equipped with state-of-the-art
hemodynamic and blood gas monitoring equipment, allowing uninterrupted delivery
of critical care for patients requiring intermittent hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
As the headquarters of the National Diver's Alert Network (DAN), the lab is a
major resource for the referral and treatment of serious diving accidents and air
embolism cases and for the largest recreational diving illness data base in the world.
The laboratory provides opportunities for research and for training for physicians,
postdoctorates, and graduate students in pressure-related medicine and physiology.
The program is multidisciplinary with major participation by the Departments of
Anesthesiology, Medicine, Surgery, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and the Pratt School of
Engineering.
The Medical Center. Currently the Medical Center at Duke University occupies
approximately 140 acres on the West Campus. The southern quadrant is contiguous
with the main quadrangle of the university and consists of the following: Davison
Building, Duke Hospital South, Baker House, Barnes Woodhall Building, Diagnostic
and Treatment Building, Ewald W. Busse Building, Eugene A. Stead Building, Clinical
Research II, and the Edwin A. Morris Clinical Cancer Research Building.
The northern portion includes the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Research Building
for Neurobiology, Nanaline H. Duke Medical Sciences Building, Alex H. Sands
Medical Sciences Building, Edwin L. Jones Basic Cancer Research Building, Clinical
and Research Laboratory Building, Bell Building, Seeley G. Mudd Communications
Center and Library, Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Building (Eye Center), Duke Hospital
North Division and Anlyan Tower, and Lenox Baker Hospital.
In the eastern section of the campus are Pickens Rehabilitation Center, Civitan
Mental Retardation and Child Development Center, and Trent Drive Hall.In the
western section of the campus are: Surgical Oncology Research Building;
Environmental Safety Building; Research Park Buildings I, II, III, and IV; the
Vivarium; and the Cancer Center Isolation Facility.
Science Laboratories 297