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  Solid-state spectroscopy of laser-type materials, luminescence spectroscopy, flash photolysis and molecular spectroscopy, photoacoustics, femtospectroscopy, summer schools in atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Professor Di Bartolo; program sponsored by NASA and NATO.

  Low temperature condensed matter physics; materials in strong magnetic fields, nanostructured superconductors, heavy fermion superconductors, thermoelectric materials. Professor Graf; program supported through Petroleum Research Fund and National Science Foundation.

  Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy on novel electronic materials, including Kondo impurities and high temperature superconductors. Professor Madhavan; program supported by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

  Physics and chemistry of quasi one and quasi two dimensional electron systems; low temperature, high magnetic fieldelectricaland magnetic properties of organic conductors and superconductors, cuprate superconductors, low dimensional semiconductor structures and novel magnetic systems; anisotropic torque and magnetotransport measurements; commensurability resonances and spin density wave states; growth of organic conductors; magnetometry techniques in large static and pulsed magnetic fields. Professor Naughton; program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

  Materials physics, including: synthesis, characterization, and physics of carbon nanotubes; single crystal growth, film deposition, and bulk processing of high temperature superconducting materials; processing and physics of giant magnetoresistive materials; synthesis and characterization of superhard materials C3N4 by PECVD. Professor Ren.

  Resonant ultrasound and Barkhausen noise in shape memory alloys, such as Ni2MnGa and AuZn. Professor Opeil.

  Experimental studies of semiconductors, oxides, strongly correlated electron systems including high Tc superconductors and metamaterials. Experimental methods include far infrared spectroscopy and THz time domain spectroscopy. Investigation of the symmetry of metamaterials and their relation to complex electromagnetic behavior by point group theoretical methods. Computational studies of metamaterial structures at THz and optical frequencies using the finite element method. Professor Padilla.

 



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