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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's programs sponsored by NASA and NATO).

  • Strongly correlated electron systems, including high temperature superconductors, through high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements and scanning tunneling microscopy. (Professor Ding).

  • Optical properties of low-dimensional and organic semiconductors; modulation spectroscopy (Professor Goldsmith).

  • 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).

  • 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).



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