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The study of condensed matter and materials at Carolina offers students a unique opportunity to participate in theoretical and experimental research. Discover the exciting, diminuitive world of condensed matter and materials here at UNC.
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Search for any faculty in the department. Information available includes: name, email address, and office number.
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Since the discovery of microscopic nanotubes, Nanomaterials at UNC has helped lead the way for a deeper understanding of this newborn technology. The implications of these studies promise widely felt improvements in a variety of research fields, ranging from computer science to biology.
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Materials synthesis and analysis research involves a large number of faculty and students and a wide range of materials and techniques. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD), laser ablation, and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are used to produce carbon nanotubes, novel metallic thin films, and other nanostructures. These and other materials (such as metallic glasses, inorganic and organic semiconductors, and solar cell materials) are studied using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) electrical transport, electron microscopy, ion-beam analysis, optical spectroscopy, and the nanoManipulator.
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Problems in biology, such as, for instance, the human genome or the brain, are increasingly attracting the attention of physicists. At UNC, biological physicists develop biophysical models for information processing in the brain and develop techniques to probe and manipulate biological tissue on nanoscales. Future expansion of the biological physics group will further increase the scope of graduate and undergraduate research opportunities.
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Both theoretical and experimental work on phase transitions in quantum systems is carried out in our department. The work includes studies of metal-insulator transitions in alkali-atom fluid and in two-dimensional electron gases, and interacting fermions in superconducting cuprates and quantum Hall liquids.
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