Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$600,000.00

Award Date

6/16/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This CAREER award supports an experimental research program to develop new techniques for high-precision measurements on cold trapped molecular ions. Sympathetic cooling of charged molecules to sub-Kelvin temperatures has recently been demonstrated, openi