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EBIT Milestones
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| A brief history of the development of the NIST EBIT Facility: |
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| 1991 | First staff hired (Gillaspy). Begin preparation of laboratory space, control electronics, etc. |
| 1992 | Begin assembly of EBIT. |
| 1993 | First trapped ions. |
| 1994 | First major atomic physics results submitted for publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1716 (1995)]. Begin planning of ion-surface studies (5 year competence building funds secured). Second staff hired (Ratliff). |
| 1995 | First extracted ions. |
| 1996 | Beamline for extracted ions fully operational. Beamline publications document record beam fluxes. |
| 1997 | First ion-surface results submitted for publication. UHV Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) purchased, and installation begun. |
| 1998 | SPM coupled to EBIT. Vibration isolation developed. Atomic scale imaging demonstrated. |
| 1999 | First in-situ images of surfaces bombarded with highly charged ions submitted for publication. Microcalorimeter installed by collaborators from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |
| 2000 | Visible/UV work on Ti-like data complete (>125 cumulative citations to date). First data using microcalorimeter published. First QED results on He-like ions published (funded by ARC). |
| 2001 | NASA funding begins. Intel asks NIST to deploy EBIT for EUV lithography. First low energy (<100 eV) EBIT operation. Invited HCI review article published in J. Phys. B. |
| 2002 | International SEMATECH funding begins. Ion-gas collision studies with extracted beams begin. Compilation of first 42 NIST EBIT papers published. |
| 2003 | DOE funding begins. Joseph Tan and Josh Pomeroy hired. EPSRC funding begins (UK theory support for NIST EBIT work). First EUV spectroscopy. |
| 2004 | Second generation Harvard-Smithsonian microcalorimeter deployed. Switchable NRL MEVVA deployed. Belfast fellowship and collaboration. |
| 2005 | Collaboration with NIH Radiation Oncology Branch begins. Fusion research agreements signed with JAERI and IAEA. First QED measurements on H-like ions performed (funded by ARC). |
Created March 1, 2010, Updated November 15, 2019