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Facilities
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hirsch Observatory
Located atop the Science Center, the Hirsch Observatory houses a Boller and Chivens 16" Cassegrain Telescope, SBIG imaging camera, SBIG spectrograph, and CFW-8 filter wheel.
Beyond Rensselaer Physics
The astrophysics group makes use of ground-based telescopes located at world class observing sites in Hawaii, Australia, Chile, and South Africa.
The group also has access to data from major satellite facilities:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Chandra
- Infrared Space Observatory
And large ground-based astronomy projects:
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
Condensed Matter Physics
Our state of the art equipment allows you to use the following experimental techniques:
- auger electron spectroscopy
- high-resolution low-energy electron diffraction
- reflection high-energy electron diffraction
- atomic force microscopy
- scanning tunneling microscopy
- X-ray absorption spectroscopy
- X-ray crystallography
- ellipsometry
Beyond Rensselaer Physics
Other experimental facilities used in these programs include:
- Center for Integrated Electronics
- accelerators at the University at Albany
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Optical Physics
The optical physics facilities allow you to perform:
- optical absorption
- luminescence
- Brillouin scattering
- Raman scattering
- Rayleigh scattering
- photomodulation spectroscopies
- photothermal deflection spectroscopy
- magneto-optic Kerr effect
- Faraday rotation
Teaching Equipment
Click here for an inventory of equipment and supplies located in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy. Direct requests to Scott Dwyer, x8414, JRSC 2C09.
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