The Center for Materials Science & Engineering provides an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of materials. The faculty members conduct research in many areas, including the following:
- Polymer engineering
- Polymer chemistry
- Polymer physics
- Nanomaterials
- Electronic materials
- Metallurgy
- Theoretical solid state physics
- Transport phenomena
- Electron-phonon interactions
- Nonlinear phenomena
- Electronic properties of molecular crystals
- Experimental low temperature physics
- Large scale computations
- Parallel processing
- Superconductivity
- Low temperature physics
- Photographic materials
- Transport phenomena in solids
- Amorphous (glassy) material stress and adhesion in thin films
- Surface modification by glow discharge plasma and/or ion bombardment
- Dislocation theory
- X-ray diffraction
- Sintering
- Numerical modeling
- Digital image analysis
- Computer integrated manufacturing
- Micromechanics of heteroepitaxial structures
- Experimental physics
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- Orphological filters in image processing of microstructures
- Synthesis and characterization of polymers with nonlinear optical properties
- Hybrid organic/inorganic polymers
- Ferroelectric ceramics and speciality materials
- Optical properties of photoreceptor materials
- Electronics
- Microcomputer interfacing
- Characterization of structure and phase transitions in surfactant systems (micelles, microemulsions and liquid crystals) using scattering techniques
- Mass and surface fractals in condensed matter systems
- Theories of liquids
- Chaos in simple non-linear physical systems
- Deposition of metals onto polymeric substrates
- Effects of surface modification of polymer substrates on growth of PVD (physical vapor deposited) films
- Glow discharge and ion bombardment
- Stress in sputtered thin films
- Adhesion of PVD thin films
- Multilayer optical filters
- Microlithography
- 193 nm lithography
- Multilayer resist processing
- Attenuated phase shift mask materials
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