On March 17, the NSF NeXUS team welcomed a group from Intel as part of a campus-wide tour of some of Ohio State’s most cutting-edge research facilities with implications for the field of semiconductor research and development. The Intel team toured the NeXUS lab and learned about the project’s progress, goals and capabilities. The following day, Intel announced that it …
HHG Chambers Installed in the NeXUS Lab
Two more key pieces of equipment were installed in the NeXUS Lab last month. The custom-built high harmonic generation (HHG) chambers are designed to accept light from the NeXUS laser and output extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light to the NeXUS System’s experimental end stations. In the photograph below, the chamber in the foreground will supply XUV light to the XAS/XRS end …
Wolf Prizes in Chemistry and Physics Awarded
This month the Wolf Foundation awarded its prestigious annual Wolf Prizes – considered a potential predictor of the Nobel Prize. 2022 Wolf Laureates include: In the field of Chemistry – Professors Bonnie L. Bassler of Princeton University, Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, and Benjamin F. Cravatt III of Scripps Research Institute “for their seminal contributions to understanding the chemistry …
2nd NeXUS User Workshop Scheduled
The 2nd NSF NeXUS Users Workshop has been scheduled for July 25 & 26, 2022. In person and virtual participation options are being planned. More details to come.
NSF NeXUS Facility Achieves Major Milestones; Two Experimental End Stations Installed
The NSF NeXUS Facility is beginning to take shape! Fall of 2021 brought a number of significant milestones to the project, including the delivery and installation of two experimental end stations. Following the successful renovation of the laser lab and installation of an optical table system to support multiple beamlines (both completed this summer), the next phase of construction turns …
NSF NeXUS Welcomes Two New Staff Members
The NSF NeXUS Facility is pleased to welcome two new members to the facility’s professional staff. Vyacheslav Leshchenko formally joined NSF NeXUS on October 25 as the facility’s Instrument Technician. Leshchenko has worked in NSF NeXUS Co-Director Lou DiMauro’s research group in the Department of Physics as a postdoctoral researcher since May 2019. He previously was a postdoctoral researcher at …