Want to get a feel for what our lab looks like? Check out this virtual tour of some of the interesting sites in our lab.
This is the pulsed nozzle Fourier Transform Microwave Spectrometer (FTMW) that we use in the majority of our studies.
We have to climb a ladder and stand on the instrument support beams to get to the top of the FTMW.
Sometimes it takes more than one person to do the job. We work on the computer, tuning the antenna, and many other things to keep the FTMW working in top shape.
Here is an example of some of the different controls we have to deal with to turn on, while running, and turning off the FTMW. Most are fairly simple to operate.
This is a closeup of the injection needle, which we use to mix reactive gases into a supersonic expansion. As you can see, it is quite fine.
This is a portion of our Tunable Far Infrared Spectrometer, which is also in our labratory. This instrument was used to probe the soft vibrational modes of weakly bound complexes.
Finally, we have one of our many pumps we use to get the pressures in our FTMW's vacuum chamber as low as we get them. It's quite loud, but thankfully it's in a back room.