Applied Physics

Field Description

Contact Information

212 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Data and Statistics

• Doctoral Program Statistics

Subject and Degrees

Applied Physics

• Applied Physics (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Engineering Physics

• Engineering Physics (M.Eng.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Applied Physics

• applied physics

Engineering Physics

• engineering physics

Faculty

Donald Heywood Bilderback

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: x-ray optics and x-ray detectors for a wide variety of x-ray experiments in the physical sciences; x-ray microbeams with glass capillary optics; Energy Recovery Linac source of x-rays that surpass current generations of storage rings in producing high spectral brightness and the smallest x-ray nanobeams for research

Joel Donald Brock

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: x-ray diffraction; synchrotron radiation; charged density waves; thin film growth and surface processing

Robert Alan Buhrman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: physics of nanoscale structures and devices; superconducting, magnetic, and semiconductor thin film materials; scanned probe studies of electronic systems; lithography

Itai Cohen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: complex matter physics with focus on colloidal suspensions; biological tissues; fluid-membrane interfaces

Harold Gene Craighead

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: nanofabrication; physics of ultrasmall devices and structures; biological nanostructures

Francis J DiSalvo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: prepares and studies new materials that potentially can address critical needs in energy generation, conversion or storage

David Erickson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: microfluidics and nanofluidics as applied to optofluidics; biomolecular detection; biologicallly enabled robotics; nanomedicine; programmable matter; fluid and thermal dynamics; nanophotonics; nanofabrication; chemistry and biology

Craig J. Fennie

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: applied physics

Gregory Fuchs

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: understanding controlling spin in solid state physics

Emmanuel P Giannelis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: hybrid nanomaterials for energy, biomedical, transportation and packaging

Sol Michael Gruner

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: biological physics; polymer and other soft condensed matter physics; x-ray and synchrotron radiation science; scientific instrumentation and technique development; development of novel x-ray detectors

David A Hammer

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: plasma physics; fusion; gas discharges; high-energy-density plasmas

Melissa A Hines

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: surface physics and chemistry

Debdeep Jena

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics

Lena F. Kourkoutis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: Nanostructured material, Biophysics, Condensed matter and Materials Physics, Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Renewable energy materials

Bruce Raymond Kusse

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: high-energy density plasma physics

Amit Lal

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: micro/nano-electromechanical systems; physical acoustics; ultrasonic engineering; biomedical MEMS; microfluidics; analog and digital circuit design; solid-state electronics; radioactive thin films for autonomous microsystems and nanofabrication

Guillaume Lambert

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics

Manfred Lindau

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: cellular and molecular biophysics; mechanisms of exocytosis and endocytosis in cell biology

Michal Lipson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: nanophotonics; optical nanostructures for short and long interconnect distances

Richard V Lovelace

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: plasma physics theory; astrophysics

Kin Fai Mak

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics; Engineering Physics: engineering physics

Paul L. McEuen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: the science and technology of nanostructures; novel fabrication techniques at the nanometer scale; scanned probe microscopy of nanostructures; assembly and measurement of chemical and biological nanostructures

Jeffrey Andrew Moses

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics; Engineering Physics: engineering physics
• Research Interests: Ultrafast laser spectroscopy and technology, Physical chemistry, Biophysics, Ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter, materials and nanostructures, Nonlinear optics

David A. Muller

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: structure and properties of nanoscale materials; atomically-engineered materials for energy applications; atomic resolution electron spectroscopy and microscopy

Lois Pollack

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: biophysics; RNA folding; electrolstatics and DNA; protein conformational dynamics

Clifford Raymond Pollock

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: lasers; fiberoptics; quantum electronics

Daniel C Ralph

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: nanoelectronics and magnetics

Richard D. Robinson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: physics and chemistry of low-dimensional materials and to produce a variety of nano-materials targeted for energy applications

Arthur Louis Ruoff

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: high-pressure phenomena; imperfections in crystals; creep

Chris B. Schaffer

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: focuses on the use of nonlinear interactions between femto-second-duration laster pulses and biological materials

Darrell G. Schlom

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of oxide thin films; preparation of oxide superlattices and metastable phases by reactive molecular-beam epitaxy

Charles Eugene Seyler

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: computational studies of the dynamics of high energy density plasmas such as those produced in pulsed power experiments at Cornell (COBRA), which are capable of producing intense bursts of x-rays; theory and simulation of upper atmospheric, ionospheric, and magnetospheric process of Earth solar-terrestrial environment

David I Shalloway

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: computational biology; multidimensional data clustering and dynamic modeling of cell differentiation and proliferation

Jie Shan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics

Gennady Shvets

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics

John Silcox

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: electron microscopy and spectroscopy

Michael Olgar Thompson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: ultralow temperature processing of silicon; point defect and impurity diffusion in Si; rapid phase transformations

Sandip Tiwari

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: electronic and optoelectronic devices at small dimensions; nano- and quantum structures; three-dimensional integration

Robert Bruce van Dover

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: growth and properties of magnetic, dielectric, superconducting and optical think films; fabrication and characterization of thin film devices; properties of magnetic and superconducting ceramics; development and use of high throughput synthesis/evaluation experimental strategies

Zheng Jane Wang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: insect flight as a model system to study the role of aerodynamics on the evolution of flapping flight in nature

Michelle D Wang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics

Frank William Wise

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: semiconductor nanocrystals, with applications to solar energy; spatio-temporal aspects of nonlinear optical waves; development of fiber lasers that generate ultrashort optical pulses, with applications to bioimaging

Chunhui (Chris) Xu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: biomedical imaging; optical instrumentation; optical communications

Warren R. Zipfel

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
• Research Interests: biomedical imaging and instrumentation