Physics research underlies the progress in almost every area of science, from chemistry to biology to electronics to medicine, and physicists defined the html code for the Internet as we know it. You want to see tumors in your body, try tools from physics. You want to see better, try laser surgery using the math that we astronomers invented to see better on the ground and in space. You want to see oil reserves underground, use sound waves and the math that physicists invented.

Then of course there is the cultural benefit of understanding who we are and where we could go if we try.

-- Dr. John C. Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Faculty Research

Condensed Matter

Theory

David Dunlap

David Dunlap

Transport and tunneling, disordered materials, molecular solids

Experiment

Victor Acosta

Victor Acosta

Quantum sensing, NV centers, biological and chemical imaging

Darcy Barron

Darcy Barron

Low-temperature detectors, millimeter-wave instrumentation

James Thomas

James Thomas

Biophysics, fluorescence microscopy, ultrasound methods

Affiliated research faculty

Stephen Boyd - Low-temperature physics, SQUIDs, transport phenomena, calorimetry

Paul Schwoebel - Crystal growth, surface science, x-ray imaging

Related Websites:

Optical Science & Engineering

Center For High Technology Materials