Department of Physics

Anderson, Phillip

Ionospheric and magnetospheric electrodynamics; space weather; space environment effects on human systems.

Research in theoretical aspects of solid state physics are in progress. Calculation of electronic structure of solids by LCAO; electron-beam lithography.

Research into collisional processes occurring in planetary atmospheres, governing gas laser operation, important in thin film plasma deposition, and determining the output of high intensity lamps.

Dr. Earle is a member of the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, with primary research interests in satellite and rocket-borne instrumentation, ionospheric electrodynamics at mid- and low latitudes, and thermospheric neutral wind systems.

Elementary particles; cosmic rays; gamma-ray astrophysics; gamma-ray and neutrino detectors. Participation in the LHC (CERN) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration forward muon detector design and construction.

Gartstein, Yuri

Condensed matter physics with emphasis on nanoscience; electronic, optical and transport properties of organic materials.

Glosser, Robert

Research interests relate to the study of optical properties of solids using techniques including Raman, photoluminescence and modulation spectroscopies. Materials of interest are semiconductors, thermoelectric materials and nanomaterials.

Plasma processes and electrodynamics in planetary atmospheres and ionospheres; space flight instrumentation.

Ionospheric com­position; mass spectroscopy; stratospheric cluster ion composition. Dr. Hoffman's research involves studies of planetary atmospheres, particularly the composition of the neutral and ionic constituents.

Gravitational lensing and applications to cosmology, acceleration of the expansion of the universe: cosmological constant, dark energy, Einstein's equations, junction conditions for matching space-times and constructing wormholes and spacetime thin-shells, computer algebra (symbolic computing).

Experimental high energy particle physics exploring high energy proton collisions produced at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and electron-positron collisions at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory. He is Principal Investigator for UT Dallas' High Energy Physics Group that works on the ATLAS and BaBar experiments.

Experimental condensed matter physics with emphasis on biomedical applications of nanomaterials including magnetically targeted drug delivery, nanoparticles for low-field magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic microparticles for bioassays and fundamental understanding of magnetic nanomaterials

Elementary particle physics experiments at electron-position colliders, high performance cluster computing, and application of data mining techniques to other fields of research

Dr. MacAlevey’s principal activity at UTD is teaching. Research interests focus on gravitational radiation.

Dr. Malko's areas of interest include:

• Molecular/cell science, sorting in microfluidic environments, using optical tweezers
• Photoluminescence spectroscopy of single semiconductor quantum dots
• Single photon sources and single photon correlation spectroscopy
• Femotosecond spectroscopy
• Non-linear optics and spectroscopy of quantum dots and other semiconductor materials
• Optical limiting devices, Nano-optics
• Solid state physics, Laser physics
• Fiber optics (hi-power fiber lasers & amplifiers)
• Optical engineering

A study on Equatorial Spread F in the earth’s ionosphere.

Rindler, Wolfgang

Theoretical relativistic cosmology and basic problems in general relativity.

Experimental condensed matter physics, phase transitions, superconductivity and the properties of magnetic materials. 

Airglow; aurora; theoretical research in aeronomy; instrumentation for atmospheric spectroscopy; observational and theoretical research on upper atmosphere processes (aeronomy) for more than 40 years, and has served on many national and international organizations in this field.

Current interests are centered on surface chemical functionalization of semiconductor and oxide surfaces, atomic layer deposition, organic electronics, biosensors and H2 storage materials.

Computational materials science of nanomaterials and electronic device materials, carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires for nanoelectronics, metal nanoparticles for catalyst design in renewable energy applications and interface modeling of high-k gate stack systems.

Polymeric organic semiconductors and intrinsic conductors; advanced lithographic resist materials.

Dr. Hilborn’s research interests include lasers, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, and nonlinear dynamic systems. He has earned the American Physical Society prize for research in an undergraduate institution and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Distinguished Service Citation. Most recently, in 2004, he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Aspects of the search for alternative gate dielectrics for use in advanced CMOS devices, novel approaches to film growth and interfacial compatibility, remote plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition processes and areas of film characterization including AES, XPS, SIMS, RBS, C-V, J-V, FTIR, XAS and NRA.

Wallace, Robert
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Advanced materials for device scaling, Semiconductor materials, Dielectric materials, Surface science, Ion beam characterization, Molecular beam epitaxy Field-emission display materials, Self-assembled monolayers, First-principles materials computations.