Applied Physics
Field Description
The applied physics program combines a core physics curriculum with research and study in areas that also includes the application of physics to the broader scientific and engineering communities. Students in applied physics may pursue research in any one of several broad areas, including nanoscience, advanced materials, condensed matter physics; renewable energy; quantum information and photonics; biological physics; astrophysics and plasma physics.
The Ph.D. program in the graduate field of Applied Physics (AP) is a flexible, research-oriented doctoral program tailored to individual interests. AP combines a core physics curriculum with research and study usually in one of the areas discussed above. Graduate students can engage in a wide range of cross-disciplinary research activities, bringing their expertise as an applied physicist to bear, often in a collaborative environment. Instead of a qualifying exam, students are expected take classes in a common core of physics subjects, being quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, and advanced laboratory techniques.
The two-year Master of Science in Applied Physics program offers advanced study and training in the three cores of AP: Quantum Systems and Photonics, Nanotechnologies, and Biotechnologies. This program provides training and research/design project experience sought after by industry, government and R&D organizations.
The professional Master of Engineering program in Engineering Physics prepares you for engineering design and development employment or further graduate work. You can broaden and deepen your preparation in AP, or prepare for professional engineering in quantum, photonic and optical technology, nanostructure science and technology, device physics, materials characterization, or computational physics and engineering.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.aep.cornell.eduEmail: aep_info@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-0638
261 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-2501
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Subject and Degrees
Applied Physics
Engineering Physics
Concentrations by Subject
Applied Physics
- applied physics
Engineering Physics
- engineering physics
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: first-principles studies of complex materials structure and properties, materials design
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: x-ray diffraction; synchrotron radiation; charged density waves; thin film growth and surface processing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: complex matter physics with focus on colloidal suspensions; biological tissues; fluid-membrane interfaces
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: nanofabrication; physics of ultrasmall devices and structures; biological nanostructures
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: Optical control of quantum materials; thin films, interfaces, and atomically layered heterostructures; ultrafast THz, optical, and x-ray spectroscopy; picoscale structure and dynamics of quantum solids; condensed matter and materials physics.
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: Quantum coherent devices, superconductivity, nanoscopic and mesoscopic physics, condensed matter and materials physics, quantum microwave systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: applied physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: understanding controlling spin in solid state physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: hybrid nanomaterials for energy, biomedical, transportation and packaging
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: plasma physics; fusion; gas discharges; high-energy-density plasmas
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: surface physics and chemistry
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: high-energy density plasma physics
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics; Engineering Physics: engineering physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics; Engineering Physics: engineering physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: trapped ions, integrated photonics, quantum optics, quantum information science and engineering
- 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
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: biophysics; RNA folding; electrolstatics and DNA; protein conformational dynamics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: nanoelectronics and magnetics
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: fluid dynamics, in vivo engineering, biological cybernetics, comparative biomechanics, entomology, evolutionary biology, ecology, agricultural engineering
- 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
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: Spectroscopy and synthesis of thin film quantum materials; unconventional and high-temperature superconductivity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: ultralow temperature processing of silicon; point defect and impurity diffusion in Si; rapid phase transformations
- 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
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: Areas of research: quantum information theory, quantum communication, quantum computation (algorithms and complexity), quantum error correction, bosonic Gaussian states and channels
- 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
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: biomedical imaging; optical instrumentation; optical communications
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Applied Physics: applied physics
- Research Interests: biomedical imaging and instrumentation