Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering

• Electronic packaging
• Heat transfer
• Thermal engineering

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Low temperature grown GaAs (LTG-GaAs)
• Chirped superlattices for MQW waveguide and transverse electroabsorption modulators
• Superlattice and asymmetric quantum well for infrared detectors

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• YBCO Uncooled Infrared Detectors
• Micromachined Infrared Sensor Arrays on Flexible Polyimide
• Infrared Sensors on Flexible Substrates for Smart Skin

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Noise and reliability in electronic devices.
• High-k dielectrics
• Sensors and detectors on flexible substrates for smart skin
• Wafer-level packaging

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Microelectromechanical system wireless and optical devices
• Wavelength-division-multiplexing optical components and networking
• Quasi-optical wireless communication/radar components and systems

integration of medical imaging
computer-aided-design
finite element analysis for applications in the planning and optimization of maxillofacial surgery

Chemistry, College of Science

• Electrically conductive polymers
• Mechanistic organic and polymer chemistry
• Materials science of conjugated polymers

The development of large area simple nanopattern generation tools
The fabrication of magnetic thin films and small structures
The characterization and modeling of the magnetic behavior of the resulting films and nanostructures, and their applications in biomedical devices and magnetic data storage devices.

Nanotechnology and MEMS
Biosensors and Bio-Inspired Fabrication.

Chalcopyrite Polycrystalline Thin-Film Solar Cells
Organic Solar Cells
Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (AACVD)
Soft Lithography

Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering

• interconnect technology for microelectronics
• metrologies for microelectronics
• advanced solar cell materials

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Quantum electronic devices
• Semiconductor devices and materials
• Molecular-beam epitaxy and semiconductor processing

Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering

• Single electron devices
• Carbon nanotube devices
• Surface Science

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Feedback control systems
• Intelligent control with neural networks and fuzzy logic systems
• Manufacturing jobshop dispatching and control

Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Medical instrumentation and imaging
• Minimally invasive and non-invasive spectroscopy and imaging of tissue
• Optical diffuse imaging for cancer prognosis and brain activities

Chemistry, College of Science

• Multi-electron photocatalysts for efficient solar hydrogen production
• Chirality, supramolecular chemistry and hierarchical structure in coordination complexes
• Novel cancer therapies using DNA-binding chiral coordination complexes

Surface engineering
Multifunctional thin films
Nano-scale materials
Material-environment interactions

Molecular and cellular engineering
Tissue engineering
Drug delivery systems including micro- and nanoparticles
Cell-material interactions
Effects of biomechanical and biochemical factors on vascular cells
Mechanisms of metastasis, especially cancer cell-endothelial cell interactions

Chemistry, College of Science

• Ionically self-assembled polymeric thin films
• 2nd order NLO films
• Electrically conductive and electroluminescent polymers

Semiconductor Electrochemistry and Photocatalysis
Conducting Oxides and Polymers
Environmental Electrochemistry

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Semiconductor surfaces and interfaces free of electronic states
• All wet-chemical fabrication of high-efficiency inorganic solar cells
• Growth and doping kinetics in chemical vapor deposition

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Nonlinear and quantum optics: manipulation of quantum properties of light; generation, characterization, and application of non-classical states of light
• Optical communication systems: ultra-high-capacity and ultra-long-reach transmission systems and networks, novel optical amplifiers, all-optical regenerators and signal processors, new modulation formats
• Nanophotonics: nonlinear-optical effects and quantum information processing in micro- and nanoscale structures

Physics, College of Science

• Use of PAES in studies of the growth, stability, and interdifussion of unltrathin layers of metals on metals semiconductors
• Synchrotron studies of surfaces, interfaces and multilayer structures (at the National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Studies of charged and open volume defects in semiconductors using a variable energy positron beam

Physics, College of Science

• Experimental high energy physics (esp. detector component design)
• Detector simulation hadron collider physics (esp. super symmetry)
• Computing techniques in high-energy physics

Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering

• Optoelectronic devices and materials
• Photonic crystals and nanophotonics
• Silicon photonics and photonic integration