At the heart of this group of projects is a planned progressive extension of the AMPL research coverage in at least three specific ways;

• First, we investigate the interaction of radiation with matter at far higher energies (for example 4.5 GeV heavy uranium ions with crystals). Therefore, for solids, we investigate the processes whereby energy deposited is converted into crystal defects, the mechanisms for latent track registration (the physics of 'particle' detectors), and the atomic and molecular physics of radiation induced condensed matter phase changes.
  
  
• Secondly, we study the fundamental act in nanomolecular self assembly of the 'new' and in general larger nanostructures, including for example the fullerene C60 molecular family, and corresponding nanotubes. This in turn implies that we also have an ongoing program on the interaction of beams of 40 MeV C60 ions with both gases and solids and, inter alia, a growing involvement in three to many-body low energy electron scattering events by molecules themselves (up to and including C60).
  
  
• Finally, we carry out a variety of experiments using various electron microscopic techniques directed at three-dimensional nano quantum dot arrays on superlattices in crystals.

For further information please contact
(Adj) Professor Lewis Chadderton