Faculty Research Capabilities
| Research Expertise | Name |
| Ni-Based Superalloys; Organic and Inorganic Nonlinear Optical Materials; Ion Implantation; Microgravity Research; Solution Soil Moisture Sensors; Bulk Growth of Piezoelectric Materials; Scintillator Materials; Triboluminescent Materials; Crystal Growth Methods: Melt Single (Nonlinear Optical Materials), Czochralski Crystal Pulling, Bridgman-Stockbarger, Solution (IR Materials, Infrared Window, and Dome Materials) | Dr. M. Aggarwal |
| Crystal Growth (U-VI, lll-V Semiconductors and Scintillators) for Nuclear Radiation Detection Applications; Advanced Nuclear Detectors Development; Fabrication, Characterization and Testing; Opto-Electronic Studies (Internal Electric Field Of Crystals), Material Surface And Metal-Semiconductor lnterface Modification; Electronic Characterization (Charge-Transport Properties) | Dr. S. Babalola |
| Sensors; Piezoelectrics; Nanocomposites; Hybrid Energy Harvesting, Organic Electronics, and related Biomedical Sensors; Organic Solar Cells | Dr. A. Batra |
| Optical Diagnostics and Interferometry; Optical Sensors; Nanostructures in Glasses; Laser Materials; Rare-Earth Ion Doped Crystals, Glasses, and Fibers; Glass investigation; Laser Spectroscopy; Optical Hole Burning Studies | Dr. R. Bommareddi |
| Optical actuators, optical switching and nonlinear optics | Dr. M. Curley |
| Sensor Science, Energy Harvesting, Solitons Dynamics, Electro-Optics (Kerr and Pockels Effects), Surface Electrical Current/Voltage Characterization of thin films, Quantum Physics and Quantum Computing. | Dr. M. Edwards |
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Electrical and Optical Characterization; Optical Sensors; Nano-Based Materials; Devices and their Applications to Optical Communication; Biological and Chemical Sensors; Synthesizing Green Nano-materials |
Dr. V. Edwards |
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Energy Harvesting; Nanocomposite Materials; Infrared Sensors; Perovskite Materials; Thin film and Thick Film Technology; Electrical and Optical Characterization |
Dr. P. Guggilla |
| Testing of COTS Systems in Space Radiation Environments | Dr. J. Lassiter |
| Plasma physics theory and simulations: Astrophysics: Relativistic jets; reconnections: particle acceleration: radiations: General Relativistic Particle-in-cell (GRPIC) simulations of black hole | Dr. K. Nishikawa |
| Micro Sensors and Systems; Fiber Optics; Nano-Based Materials; Photonic Materials and Crystal Devices and their Applications to Optical Communication | Dr. P. Ruffin |
| Optics, Computational Physics; Artificial Neural Networks/Genetic Algorithms | Dr. M. Schamschula |
| Raman Spectroscopy; Chemical Sensors; Remote Sensing; Sensing Food Adulteration; Explosives; Fiber Optics; UV Lithography; Photodegradation | Dr. A. Sharma |
| Optical Metrology (broad area), Optical Instrumentation, Laser Applications, Speckle Metrology (specific area) Shearography (topic) | Dr. R. Sirohi |
| Satellite Fragmentation; Orbital Debris | Dr. A. Tan |
| Theoretical and Numerical Modeling of: Solar Energetic Particle; Coronal Mass Ejection; Coronal Hole Heating; Plasma Antenna and Diagnostics; Plasma Heating and Fusion; Gravitation and Unification; Neutron Star; Quasar; Gamma-Ray Burst; Black Hole Universe | Dr. T. Zhang |
