The CMSS program at Ohio University gives students the opportunity to use state-of-the-art research equipment from many different university departments. Equipment available to CMSS faculty and students include dilution and other helium refrigerators and cryostats, superconducting and normal magnets, computer-controlled furnaces, a Mossbauer spectrometer, ultra-high-vacuum systems, an infrared spectrometer, electron microscopes, a scanning tunneling microscope, and a number of workstations and minicomputers with access to the Cray Y-MP supercomputer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

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