Highlights

The MSD facility collaborates with research groups internationally and across the UK, as well as internally within the STFC to develop and support leading research facilities and research programs. Recent highlights include:

Scientific Highlights

• Protein Dynamics
• DNA Dynamics
• Fundamental Chemical Dynamics
• Broadband Mie Scattering

Instrumentation and Technique Developments

• ULTRA
• ULTRA detectors & generic readout
• TRIR on crystalline materials Application of time resolved spectroscopy in crystalline excited state studies
• T-Jump (Picosecond induced temperature jumps)
• SORS
• Tweezers Nanoprobes (STFC Technology Partnership programme)
• OPIC sensor (Prototype 'look at me' active pixel sensor)
• Streak Camera R&D (Gianluca Gregori, CLF & Oxford - femtosecond high dynamic range)
• Microstructures & Targets (LIBRA Laser targetry)
• Sample handling solutions (Intelligent and fast scanning for high rate pump-probe)