Physics

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Benjamin J. Crowe III, Interim Chair
Room 1202 Mary M. Townes Science Building
Department Telephone: 919-530-7253
Fax: 919-530-5103
Email: bcrowe@nccu.edu

Overview

The goal of the M.S. program in Physics is to provide innovative and high quality education and training opportunities to students interested in continuing their education beyond the undergraduate level. The program aims at providing a strong foundation for further study at the Ph. D. level in Physics or related fields, for acquiring positions in industry, and for teaching at secondary and post-secondary institutions. The Department of Physics has an active research program with modern on-campus experimental facilities, and with access to regional and national research facilities including the nuclear and free electron laser labs located on the nearby Duke University campus. The department strives to extend its research capabilities with strong student participation through significant and valuable contributions to science and technology.

Research Specialization (Major)

The Department of Physics offers research opportunities with specializations in Nuclear Physics, Solid State Physics, Theoretical Physics, Computational Physics, Nanotechnology, and Spectroscopy. Theoretical and experimental research activities are available in most areas. A student may select one of the areas of specialization for research towards fulfillment of the requirement of a thesis or non-thesis research project.

Research subfields include:

• Experimental low-energy nuclear physics
• Experimental intermediate-energy nuclear physics
• Experimental Neutrino physics
• Experimental studies of X-ray pumped nuclear isomer states
• Theoretical high/low-energy nuclear physics
• Nanotechnology/nanoscale materials – theoretical studies of the optoelectronic and sensory properties
• Semiconductors – material formation and characterization, optoelectronics (experiment & theory)
• Renewable energy – photovoltaic solar cells (experiment & theory)
• Gigahertz to terahertz radiation (experiment)

Regional collaborative projects include:

Duke University, North Carolina

• Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory: Experimental low-energy nuclear physics
• Physics Department: Neutrino physics, Nanotechnology
• Chemistry Department: Nanoscale materials
• Free Electron Laser Laboratory: Materials research
• Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics: Metamaterials, Nanophotonics

Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Virginia

• Hyper-nucleon physics research
• Nuclear and nucleon structures and strong interactions
• Polarimeter for linearly polarized protons

National Institute of Science and Technology, Maryland

• Fundamental neutron physics experimental collaboration with Neutron Interactions and Radiation group

Active national and international collaborations exists between department faculty and scientists at Cornell University, State University of new York (Albany), University of South Florida, Ohio University (Athens), Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, NASA - Glenn research laboratory in Ohio, National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, research centers in Japan, Korea, Russia, Croatia, and Western Europe.

Admission Requirements

A minimum of 30 credits in Physics at the undergraduate level, with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in the Physics courses, is required for unconditional admission to the graduate program. A conditional admission may involve correcting physics topic deficiencies by taking undergraduate courses which are prerequisites to graduate courses. Undergraduate physics course deficiencies need to be removed within one semester of admission into the program.

Physics Graduate Faculty

Bondarev , Igor (Associate Professor)
M.S., Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus
Ph.D., Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus
D.Sc. (Habilitation Degree), National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus

Crowe , Benjamin J. (Associate Professor)
B.S., Lincoln University, Lincoln University Pennsylvania
M.S., Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana
Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana

Filikhin, Igor (Research Professor)
Ph.D., St.-Peterburg State University, Russian Federation

Kim, Kinney H. (Professor)
B.S., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Ph.D., University of Vienna, Vienna Austria

Markoff, Dianne (Associate Professor)
B.S., University of California at Berkeley
M.S., University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Tang, Tongan (Adjunct Professor)
M.S., Hangzhou University
Ph.D., University of Arkansas

Matinyan, Sergey (Adjunct Professor)
M.S., Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Ph.D. Tbilisi State University
D.Sc. (Habilitation Degree), TBILISI State University

Suslov, Vladimir (Adjunct Professor)
M.S., Leningrad State University (USSR)
Ph.D., St.-Petersburg State University, Russian Federation

Vlahovic, Branislav (Professor)
M.S., University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Croatia

Wu, Marvin (Associate Professor)
B.S., Brown University, Providence Rhode Island
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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