Government Agencies

 

• NPL, The National Physical Laboratory.
  Quantification and calibration services to Industry and Academia. The surfaces and Interfaces division can be found here.
• NEXUS
  The UK's National EPSRC XPS Users' Service, hosted by nanoLAB near the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
• Defence Research Agency
• RUSTI, The Research Unit for Surfaces, Transforms and Interfaces, Daresbury Laboratory
  Commercial XPS, imaging XPS, EDX and plasma processing.
• EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
  Paymasters
• Other Research Councils
  Additional sources of funds (or not)
• DTI, OST and other central government departments.
  Assorted politicians and bureaucrats
• ISO, International Standards Organisation
  Coordination of standardisation and quantification
• Other standards bodies
• NIST
  The National Institute of Standards & Technology
• Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM)
  Surface Science Division of German Standards Body
• UK Patent Office
  UK patents can now be searched online
• US Patent Office
  Every patent issued in the US in the last 20 years is now available on-line
• Canadian Patent Office
  Search Canadain patents
• IBM Patent Sever
  26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last ten years of images.
• Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System
  Online guide to patents and searching them
• European Patent Office
• Surface Science Branch, NASA Lewis Research Center
• Materials Science Division, NASA

 

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Synchrotron Sources

 

• SRS, Daresbury Laboratory, UK
• ESRF, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
• ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy
• DESY, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
• BESSY, Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung , Berlin, Germany
• ANKA, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt, Germany
• NSLS, National Synchrotron Light Source, USA
• ALS, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
• APS, Advanced Photon Source, USA
• CAMDA, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• CHESS, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, USA
• SSRL, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, USA
• DELTA, Dortmund ELectron Test Accelerator, Germany
• Duke University, Free electron laser, FEL, Laboratory. USA
• ELSA, (Electron Stretcher Accelerator), Group of Bonn University
• MAX-Lab, Lund University, Sweden
• LURE, France
• SPring 8, Japan
• KEK, Japan
• SURF, Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
• SLS, Swiss Light Source
• CISR, The Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation
• SRRC, Synchrotron Research Centre, Taiwan
• BSRF, Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, China
• INDUS, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India
• Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
• LSB, Spanish Project for a Synchrotron Laboratory at Barcelona
• ASTRID, Institute for Storage Ring Facilities, University of Aarhus, Denmark