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History
In 1987 the Board of Regents of the State of Ohio recognized the Ohio University program in Condensed Matter and Surface Science (CMSS) for an
Academic Challenge grant. The interdisciplinary CMSS program has been administered by physics faculty but has major involvement from the Chemistry, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
departments. To date, the program has received funding of well over $2,000,000. In 1992, the final year of the Academic Challenge grant, the CMSS program's funding was absorbed into the general funding
of the University. The funding level has been maintained at the present level, as it has been for all other successful Academic Challenge programs. The CMSS program has provided two new faculty positions
in physics, new postdoctoral and graduate student appointments, and significant start-up funds for the new faculty as well as over $400,000 in equipment to support the projects of its faculty members.
Project Description
With the founding in 1994 of the W.M. Keck Thin Film Analysis Facility, the materials science capabilities of the Accelerator
Laboratory have been greatly extended. The materials science research that is performed includes work on diamond films for electronic applications, solar cell materials, materials for fusion reactors and
light weight materials for aerospace applications, in addition to basic research to broaden our understanding of these materials. Much of this work is performed through interdisciplinary
collaborations at Ohio University involving the Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program (CMSS) or the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP). Both CMSS and CAMP involve faculty from both
the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, including the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Just as in the area of
nuclear physics, collaborations are undertaken with U.S. universities and national laboratories who wish to use our facilities. The range of materials analysis capabilities here are not found in any
other U.S. universities or national laboratories. This facility is now unique in the United States in the extent of both the nuclear physics and materials science research that may be undertaken..
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Phase 1
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November 22, 1999
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