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physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter

condensed matter physics and materials science

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Ultrafast atomic, molecular, and solid-state dynamics, attosecond physics and chemistry, soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet sources, high harmonic generation, ultrafast lasers and optical physics, extreme ultraviolet four wave mixing and multidimensional spectroscopy, ultrafast processes in quantum matter, including electron and spin dynamics and phase transitions, semiconductor electronic and structural physics, carrier transport in junctions, coherent electronic, vibrational and phonon superpositions, nonadiabatic dynamics at curve crossings and conical intersections, charge switching and charge migration, photophysics of nanoparticles, nanostructures, and materials with energy applications.

Complex Oxides, novel electronic materials, thin films, materials processing, materials characterization, memory, logic, information technologies, energy conversion, thermal properties, dielectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, magnetics, multiferroics, transducers, devices

processing of complex oxide heterostructures, spin-charge coupling, nanoscale characterization/device structures, thin film growth and materials physics of complex oxides, materials processing for devices, information technologies

finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles