Overview of Research at SRC

SRC is a national facility open to all qualified investigators. It is operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding primarily from the National Science Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Time on the storage ring is made available free of charge to scientists who perform research intended to be published in the open literature.

Proprietary research is also possible, with charges based on full cost recovery.  The research performed at SRC since 1968 has been extremely successful, by any standard. The major factors in the continuing success of SRC are the creativity of the Users and the properties of the Aladdin storage ring beamlines that make it a nearly ideal source for infrared, vacuum ultraviolet (vuv) and soft x-ray (sxr) research. Some of these properties include:

  • Excellent electron beam stability as far as intensity, position, and energy are concerned.
  • Compatibility with the ultrahigh vacuum (uhv) requirements of many experiments.
  • Ability to optimize the electron beam’s operating parameters.

The SRC serves the scientific needs of a wide variety of disciplines. A partial list includes:

  • High resolution optical absorption spectroscopy of solids and gases
  • High resolution reflectance spectroscopy of solids
  • High resolution angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Angle integrated photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Total and partial electron and ion-yield x-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • X-ray Photo Electron Emission Microscopy (X-PEEM)
  • Photoinduced luminescence in solids and gases
  • Fluorescence spectroscopy
  • Photoabsorption, dissociation, and ionization cross section measurements
  • Chemisorption and physisorption studies
  • Photon stimulated desorption
  • Photoelectron diffraction
  • Magnetic linear and circular dichroism
  • Calibration and standard source for VUV and SXR detectors
  • X-ray lithography
  • Photon assisted processing
  • X-ray scattering
  • Infrared microscopy and spectroscopy

Furthermore, the development of vuv and sxr optical instrumentation is an advanced field of applied research in its own right. SRC is one of the leading facilities in this area.