Watson Laser Lab


The Watson Laser Lab is a broad physical chemistry research group at Curtin University with specialisations in gas-phase spectroscopy.

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First Publication from HFML-FELIX
First Publication from HFML-FELIX

The first paper to come from beamtime runs at HFML-FELIX has been accepted!

Published as part of the Mike Duncan Festschrift special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, this paper represent the first output to come from Mackenzie Group collaborations with the Bakker Group at HFML-FELUX. The work here was part of the first beamtime run lead by Peter with colleagues from the University of Oxford and is an infrared multiple-photon photodissociation (IRMPD) study of cationic cobalt clusters (Con+) with bound NO molecules and argon tags.

Noah Tours Europe Collecting Data on Potential Sea Sensor Materials
Noah Tours Europe Collecting Data on Potential Sea Sensor Materials

Honours Student Noah Corbett travelled to Europe for a new collaboration.

As part of his training, Honours student Noah Corbett travelled to the Europe to work with local beamline scientists, Todd Martz from UC San Diego and Prof. Roland De Marco on a project examining new materials as potential sea sensors.