Research - Physics

Graphite Magnified Highly competitive research is on the march in the IUP Physics Department. With the addition of several new, strongly research-oriented faculty, and a renewed commitment to research by our new president, the Physics faculty at IUP is entering an exciting era in undergraduate, graduate and faculty research.

Individual Projects: Experimental

Complex Magnetic and Neural Network Materials: Physical Aging Phenomena.
Finite Size Effects and Multilayer Films: An understanding of finite size effects is crucial for the development of nano-sized materials with useful properties.
Nanoparticles Including Nanoparticles Arrays: Ferrite and ferromagnetic nanoparticles in our laboratory and the potential applications.
Properties of New Optical Materials: Development of new optical materials for laser applications, such as new laser gain media made of ceramics.
Spin Related Phenomena in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors: The mass, charge, and spin of electrons in the solid state laid the foundation of the information technology that we are using today.

Individual Projects: Theoretical

Band Structure Calculations: Performing Electronic Band Structure calculations.
Lattice Dynamical Properties of Semiconductor Superlattices: A new class of beryllium chalcogenides (BeS, BeSe and BeTe) belonging to group II-VI compound semiconductor family and crystallizing in the four-fold coordinated zinc-blende structure has received considerable attention in recent years.
Molecular Dynamics and Crack Propogation: The subject of crack propagation, which is related to the subject of how things break, is an important area of research in material science.
Neural Network Modeling: Neural network modeling is a multidisciplinary research area with research is done in collaboration with the Psychology department at IUP.

Novel GaInNAs Laser Materials: Laser devices and materials.
Quasi-Crystals: Symmetry of Quasi-Crystals
Type II Strained Layer Superlattice Based Infrared Detectors: Infrared Sources and Detectors.