Research

The experimental, theoretical, and computational research efforts in Delaware span an enormous range of energy scales -  from low energy (~ 1 eV) of atomic, molecular, and condensed matter systems to ultra high energy (~ 10²⁰ eV) cosmic rays.

Faculty by Research Area:

Experiment and Observation:

• Atomic and Optical Physics: DeCamp, Lorenz, Walker.
• Condensed Matter Physics: Glyde, Hadjipanayis, Ji, Mulders, Nowak, Shah, Unruh, Xiao.
• Astronomy: Gizis, Holder, Provencal, Williams.
• Space Physics: Bieber, Clem, Evenson.
• Plasma Physics: Matthaeus.
• High Energy Physics: Evenson, Gaisser, Seckel, Clem, Holder.

Theory and Computation:

• Atomic and Optical Physics: Morgan, Safronova, Szalewicz.
• Condensed Matter Physics: Chui, Glyde, Nikolic.
• Astronomy: MacDonald, Mullan, Owocki.
• Space Physics: Bieber, Matthaeus, Shay.
• Plasma Physics:  Matthaeus, Shay.
• High Energy Physics: Barr, Gaisser, Leung, Shafi, Stanev.
• Nuclear Physics: Pittel.

Multidisciplinary and Applied:

• Nanoscale Physics: Chui, Hadjipanayis, Ji, Nowak, Nikolic, Shah, Unruh, Xiao.
• Molecular Physics: DeCamp, Szalewicz. 

Special Equipment and Facilities:

• Condensed matter and nanoscale physics laboratories have in house scanning and transmission microscopes, a variety of magnetometers, X-ray diffractometers, differential scanning calorimeters, thin-film deposition systems and cryogenic facilities, and make use of accelerator based facilities for X-ray and neutron scattering.
• Atomic, molecular, and optical physics laboratories include femtosecond and high-power pulsed lasers for non-linear optical studies and high resolution multiphoton spectroscopy.
• Astroparticle physics programs include high-altitude balloon flights and high energy cosmic ray and neutrino experiments in Antarctica (IceCube and Anita), as well as high energy gamma-ray observations with the VERITAS telescopes in Arizona.
• Space physics programs maintain a world-wide network of neutron monitors and are involved with MMS, the Magnetosphere MultiScale mission and multi spacecraft missions such as Cluster-2, to study the magnetosphere and the solar wind.
• Astronomy participates in several NASA missions: ACE, The Spitzer infrared telecope, the Chandra X-ray satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope. UD is also part of the SMARTS consortium which allows use of a group telescope in Chile.
• Computational physics research and education operates nine local Linux supercomputing clusters.