皇家华人

Overview

Basic and applied research in Solid-state and Materials Physics at the University of South 皇家华人 aims to improve the understanding of physical phenomena and to develop advanced materials and processes for technologically significant applications.

The range of topical areas of interest include:

• Carbon Nanotubes
• Heterostructures
• Magnetic Semiconductors
• Magnetic Nanostructures
• Multiferroics
• Nanocomposites
• Novel Semiconductors and Intermetallics
• Quasicrystals
• Quantum Dots
• Oxides
• Organic Electronic Materials
• Energetic materials
• Polymers
• Colloids

Growth capabilities include a variety of physical techniques such as high-temperature and thermal decomposition for single-crystal and bulk polycrystalline materials; RF magnetron sputtering as well as laser, plasma and microwave methods for the fabrication of thin-film and quantum-dot structures; and chemical techniques for nanomaterials synthesis. A broad range of physical-properties-measurement capabilities over a wide temperature range together with theory and computational modeling at the electronic, atomistic, and coarse-grained levels are employed in investigating biomaterials, soft materials such as polymers, coatings, molecular electronics, spintronics, multifunctional electronic devices, and power-conversion technologies. Access to a four-thousand-CPU cluster is available for computational modeling of materials. Strong links with major national and international facilities are typical in this interdisciplinary research program.

Research projects are funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, the Office of Naval Research, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.