Electrophysics
 Featured Research
 "Scientists have ideas; engineers make them work," said Nobel Prize winner Jack Kilby. Electrophysics is a key part of this concept. Engineers concentrating in the area of Electrophysics bring ideas that emerge from basic physics, and work to develop them into practical reality. Electrophysics represents the overlap between physics and electrical and computer engineering, and the products of Electrophysics ultimately fit into other areas of electrical and computer engineering such as: communications and signal processing, computer engineering, microelectronics, and controls. Electrophysics is an essential component to bring concepts grounded in the principles of physics together with systems engineering to create complex systems that work in real life. Devices that emerge from electrophysics are embedded in almost all modern electronics.
Electrophysics education and research deals with optics, lasers, detectors, microwaves, particle beams, nanotechnology, magnetics, and electromagnetic phenomena at all wavelengths, from x-rays, to radio waves. Creating light where there is darkness is part of what Electrophysicists do, in order to improve how we see things both large and small; communicate information of all sorts; and process materials, whether by cooking with microwaves or even performing laser surgery.
Spotlight on Research:
Resonant Cavity Nonlinear Detectors for Optical Signal Processing
Prof. Thomas E. Murphy
The Maryland Center for Free-Electron Laser Research
Prof. Patrick G. O'Shea
Plasmon Superlens Microscope
Prof. Christopher Davis
World's First Nano-Scale Invisibility Cloak
Prof. Christopher Davis
Drive Independent Data Recovery and Data Forensics
Prof. Isaak Mayergoyz
Wobbling of the Millennium Bridge
Prof. Edward Ott
Broadband Directional Wireless Communication Networks
Prof. Christopher C. Davis
Optical Micro-Ring Resonators
Prof. Ping-Tong Ho
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