These are photos of Rutgers Universities 1.7 MeV Tandetron accelerator. It is located in the main vault in the Physics Departments NPL (Nanophysics Laboratory) building. It sits in place of the orginal 20 MeV Rutgers Tandem Van de Graff accelerator.
	The accelerator is used for determination the structure and chemical composition of very thin films of technological materials ( 1-100 nm thick).  It works by bombarding the thin films  with energetic ions, and measuring the ions that scatter back to a detector (Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy).  The different metal "pipes' in the foreground are beamlines used for different experiments.

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