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  1.   1.  Diamond Physics
    1.   1.1  Diamond Electronics
    2.   1.2  Diamond in High Energy Physics Accelerators
    3.   1.3  Diamond Processing
  2.   2.  Nuclear and Particle Physics
    1.   2.1  Particle Physics
    2.   2.2  Medium / High Energy Physics
    3.   2.3  Nuclear Physics
  3.   3.  Interdisciplinery Physics
    1.   3.1  Projects based on the Ion Microprobe facility
  4.   4.  Intellectual property and Commercialisation
  5.   5.  Outreach

1.  Diamond Physics

1.1  Diamond Electronics

There is now device quality synthetic diamond. Devices based on Intrinsic and p-type material are now possible. A new era of diamond based electronics is anticipated. However, research needs to be done to in the following three areas

  • Shallow molecular dopant systems
  • Diamond detectors
  • Correlation between electronic properties, defects, synthesis
  • Hydrogen behavior in diamond
  • Muonium as a hydrogen analogue in diamond

1.2  Diamond in High Energy Physics Accelerators

  • Diamond as a Coherent Radiator in the Multi-Hundred GeV Regime
  • Diamond as a Synchrorton Radiation Beam Optic Element

1.3  Diamond Processing

  • Diamond Processing Laboratory
    This laboratory prepares diamonds for electronic and accelerator applications.
    Key features are crystal quality, unique geometries, defect free surface and subsurface.
    • Laser Ablation
    • Thermo-mechanical Etching
    • Mechanical processing - Polishing and sawing
    • Ion Beam Processing
  • The Thin Diamond Program

2.  Nuclear and Particle Physics

2.1  Particle Physics

  • Higgs boson search at ATLAS

2.2  Medium / High Energy Physics

  • QED under conditions of Strong Fields and Coherence
  • High Energy Photon Initiated Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • High Energy Nuclear Physics

2.3  Nuclear Physics

A comprehensive experimental investigation and theoretical modelling of light-ion induced reaction mechanisms in medium mass targets from the Coulomb barrier to the fission threshold

  • Stacked Foil Spectroscopy
  • Residue Momenta by Doppler Gamma - Ray Spectroscopy
  • Light particle emission spectroscopy

3.  Interdisciplinery Physics

  • Accelerator Physics
  • Development of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
  • GEANT4 detector simulation and E-DE(x,y) detector development
  • GEANT4 Simulation of a an AMS system as one large detector
  • SIMION simulation of Ion Sources and Ion Source Development

3.1  Projects based on the Ion Microprobe facility

  • Residue Analysis in Archeological tools
  • Geochemistry
  • Hydrogen Microscopy (we are workin on Diamond)

4.  Intellectual property and Commercialisation

  • Patents
  • Product development
    • Doping of diamond
    • Coloring of diamond
    • Defect engineering
    • Diamond recovery Mineral-PET
    • Data Acquisition Software (SourceForge Project)
  • Industry Liason
    Currently designing a program of research to support the PBMR project

5.  Outreach

  • The Emasondosondo program
    We are working with the SAIP, the GPEDU and Columbia University on a program to bring Science to disadvantaged schools.