Carol Thompson

Resident Associate

Materials Science Divsion; Bldg. 223
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne IL 60439

phone: 630-252-7378
fax: 630-252-7777
email: c_thompson@anl.gov

Carol Thompson is a Resident Associate in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Northern Illinois University. She earned her MS in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and her Ph.D degree in Physics at the University of Houston. Thompson's research uses modern x-ray scattering techniques to study surface, interface and bulk structures and to correlate the structure and changes in the structure to physical properties. Current aspects of her research emphasize studies in real-time during processing and under in-situ conditions. These types of experiments benefit from the brilliance and high intensity available at synchrotron sources. The newest and brightest source in the US for the hard x-ray region, is the third generation source, the Advanced Photon Source, at the Argonne National Laboratory.Please see the following webiste for more information about my position at Northern Illinois University - http://www.physics.niu.edu/~cthompson/