The Laboratory of Material Analysis with Ion Beams, LAMFI-USP

LAMFI is a laboratory dedicated to the development and application of ion beam techniques for the analysis of bulk materials and thin films. Its main facilities comprise an 1.7MV Pelletron tandem accelerator and two analytical setups, one mainly for Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS), and channeling, and another, for Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) analysis. Since its beginning in March 1992, over 10 institutions involving about 68 researchers, 42 graduate and 9 undergraduate students have been direct or indirectly users at LAMFI.