Dr. Bowers obtained his B.S. from Gonzaga University and his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of Illinois. After two years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Laboratory he joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 1968. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The work is a blend of experiment and theory. We bring a chemical physics outlook to problems of broad chemical interest.
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This new technique was developed in our lab. By accurately measuring the time for a mass selected species to drift through a cell containing He gas, collision cross sections can be determined. At present we are developing several new ion sources to increase the kinds of systems we can study. This powerful method is being applied to the types of problem given below. Structures of Metallic, Semiconductor, and Mixed Clusters Laser desorption sources can readily generate intense beams of many interesting species.