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ELORET employs a group of physical chemists and materials engineers who conduct experimental research in gas phase chemistry and physics. These experiments provide valuable information for the development of thermal protection systems for industrial customers and for NASA. There is also a group focusing on CVD plasma physics related to the semiconductor industry.

Gas Phase and Gas-Surface Reaction Chemistry

• Crossed Beam Diagnostics for studies of CVD processes (silane and other reactive species)
• diamond film deposition using arcjets
• oxygen and nitrogen atom recombination reactions catalyzed by TPS surfaces
• arcjet flow diagnostics
• oxygen atom destruction of materials in low earth orbit
• material ablation

Experimental Techniques

• Laser-induced fluorescence
• UV and visible absorption emission spectroscopy
• mass spectroscopy