Spintronics
John Y. Fu
Multifunctional materials and devices, material physics, dielectrics, ferroelectrics, and flexoelectric effects in biomaterials.
Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
Quantum transport in nanostructures; nanoelectronics; condensed matter physics at low temperatures.
Joseph A. Gardella, Jr.
Mass spectrometry, electron spectrometry, vibrational spectrometry of surfaces and biomaterials; surface and thin film analysis of compound semiconductors as spintronic materials, quantum wells and quantum dots; drug delivery and release; tissue engineering; quantitative surface analysis; geospatial and multivariate statistics of surface and environmental data; environmental public policy and analytical chemistry; public service learning.
Matthew D. Jones, PhD
- Materials by design
- Highly correlated electronic systems
- Electronic behavior under applied fields
- Computational modeling/high-performance computing
Hong Luo
Spin-related effects and devices with semiconductors and hybrid materials; fabrication of nanoelectronic and photonic materials and structures; imaging and spectroscopy of nanostructures.
Bruce D. McCombe
Electronic states of III-V and II-VI quantum dots; spin injection into narrow gap semiconductors and spin lifetimes; understanding the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic diluted magnetic semiconductors; the optical Aharonov-Bohm effect in columnar type II quantum dots in the AnTe/ZnSe system; vibrational properties of nanoparticles.
Gottfried Strasser
Semiconductor electronics, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology of advanced materials; epitaxial growth and device processing.
Bernard A. Weinstein, PhD
Optical and high-pressure studies of the vibrational and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures; effects of nanoscale geometry on phase stability; confined effects and coupled excitations for lattice modes and electronic levels; impurity and defect states in confined geometries.
Hao Zeng
Synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles and nanowires; nanoscale magnetism; charge transport in self-assembled nanostructures; biological applications of nanoparticles.
Peihong Zhang
Ab initio calculations of electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials; nanostructured materials and their applications; high performance computing.