The Department of Physics houses twenty labs, a Center for the Irradiation of Materials, a NSF Center for Nonlinear Optics and Materials, a departmental library, a glass shop, a Learning Resource Center, a graduate student office to house 23 graduate students, and a machine shop.
Research Areas
Materials Science
Nano Technology
Optics
Space Science
Research Topics
Crystal growth from solution, melt, vapor for IR, NLO, and photorefractive materials
Growth of IR window materials, SHG materials, and IR detector materials
Investigation of polymeric carbon and carbide ware
Materials characterization by techniques like, SEM, EPR, RBS, optical and electrical methods, etc.
Surface diffusion studies
Surface modification studies using Ion implantation
Crystal growth modeling
Nonlinear optics in organic and photorefractive materials, and nonlinear fiber optics
Upconversion lasers
Real-time interferometry in photorefractive materials
Integrated optics in thin films of polymeric and organic materials
Optical phase conjugation in photorefractive materials
Study of optical surfaces and lenses
Squeezed states: Applications in optical communication
Quantum computing
Research on optical fiber sensors
Optical hole burning
Optical computing, optical and optically assisted neural network
Planetary and space physics
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