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Faculty Research

Our program offers world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities. Currently the Department offers first-rate facilities in atomic force microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, ultrafast optical spectroscopy and microscopy, terahertz spectroscopy, pulsed laser thin film deposition, thin film characterization, atomic layer deposition and mass spectrometry.

In 2009 the Department of Physics and Astronomy will relocate to a new, custom-made, high tech building which will expand the size of individual laboratories and further enhance the quality and global impact of the research carried out in the program.

Students accepted into our Graduate program can develop expertise with some of the most progressive techniques and instrumentations and alongside some of the finest researchers in the nation. Students will also have access to outstanding computational facilities and top-notch facilities for the construction of space physics instrumentation that participate in prestigious NASA space missions, through the partnership with the Southwest Research Institute.

Research areas span across many different fields ranging from Astrophysics to Material Science and from Biophysics to Nanotechnology. The research carried out by the faculty members is avant-grade and proudly produces many publications in high impact, world renowned journals (including Science, Nature, etc.)

Experimental Condensed Matter	Theoretical Condensed Matter
CHONGLIN CHEN DHIJAR SARDAR ANDREY CHABANOV MIGUEL JOSE YACAMAN XOMALIN PERALTA	PATRICK NASH ZLATKO KOINOV LIAO CHEN ANETA KOYNOVA XOCHITL LOPEZ-LOZANO
Astrophysics and Cosmology	Nanotechnology Materials Physics
ERIC SCHLEGEL RAFAEL LOPEZ-MOBILIA DANIEL BOICE ICHISHIRO KONNO	ARTURO AYON DHIJAR SARDAR ANDREY CHABANOV MIGUEL JOSE YACAMAN CHONGLIN CHEN
Biophysics	Space Physics
LORENZO BRANCALEON DHIJAR SARDAR LIAO CHEN XOMALIN PERALTA	SWRI-SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Terahertz Spectroscopy	Computational Physics
XOMALIN PERALTA	LIAO CHEN PATRICK NASH XOCHITL LOPEZ-LOZANO
Ultramicroscopy
MIGUEL JOSE YACAMAN LORENZO BRANCALEON