Experimental Plasma Physics
Intense Laser Matter Interactions - Milchberg
- Atomic and Plasma Dynamics in Relativistically Intense Laser Fields
- Laser-Driven Particle Accelerators
- Coherence and Incoherent Laser-Driven X-ray Generation and Applications
- Studies in Highly Nonperturbative Nonlinear Optics
- Intense Laser-Cluster Interactions
- State-of-the-Art High-Energy Femtosecond and Picosecond Laser Development
- Optical, X-ray and Fast Particle Diagnostic Development
Laboratory for Ultra Fast Optical Science (UFOs) - Kim
- Ultrafast terahertz science
- Intense laser interaction with atoms, solids, and plasmas
- Ultrafast nano-optics and surface plasmonics
- High-energy-density laboratory plasma physics
- Tabletop particle acceleration and radiation generation
Maryland Centrifugal Experiment - Ellis, Hassam, Romero-Talamás
- Doppler spectrometry
- Magnetic measurements of the rotating plasma
- Electron temperature measurements using electron cyclotron radiometry
- Electric field modification in the outer edge of the MCX plasma via a biased plasma limited
Maryland NanoCenter - Rubloff
Materials and Interface Nanotechnology - Rabin
- Directed self-assembly of silver nanocubes for SERS (Raman) sensing
- Bulk nanostructures as improved thermoelectric materials
- Eutectic Nanowires - structure and transport
- Nanoparticle formulations for X-ray tomography (medical imaging)
- Nanofluidic channels
Maryland Nanophotonics Group - Waks
- Nanophotonic Devices
- Photonic crystal structures
- Quantum dots and semiconductor nanocrystals
- Integrated photonics
- Quantum Optics
- Photon number generation
- Nonclassical light
- Cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum Information Processing
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum computing
- Long distance quantum networking
Laboratory for Solar and Quantum Technology - Munday
- Nano-optics
- Quantum Engineering
- Energy Harvesting
- Photovoltaic Applications
Nonlinear Dynamics Research
Particle Beam Dynamics Group
- Charged Particle Beams for Advanced Accelerator Applications
- University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) - Kishek, O'Shea, Bernal, Haber, Sutter, Koeth, Beaudoin
- Heavy Ion Fusion - Kishek, O'Shea, Beaudoin, Haber
- Free Electron Laser Group - Kishek, Fiorito, Shkvarunets, Koeth, Feldman, Montgomery
- Photocathode Research - O'Shea, Feldman, Montgomery, Jensen
- Diagnostics Laboratory - Fiorito, Shkvarunets
- Energetic Particle Laboratory - Koeth, O'Shea, Lathrop, Beaudoin
- High Power Microwave Research
- Gyrotron Oscillators for Controlled Fusion Experiments - Nusinovich, Antonsen, Sinitsyn
- Pasotron Research - Rodgers, Nusinovich, Shkvarunets
- Theory and Simulation of Microwave Sources - Nusinovich, Sinitsyn, Antonsen
- High-Gradient Accelerating Structures: Theory and Modeling - Nusinovich, Antonsen, Kishek, Sinitsyn
Photonics Research Laboratory - Murphy
- Exploring new devices and techniques that improve the speed, sensitivity, resolution, and efficiency of optical communication and sensor systems
- Integrated optics, nanophotonic devices, optical sensors
- Terahertz generation, nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics
- Nonlinear dynamics, optical communication systems
Plasma Processing of Materials - Oehrlein
- Low-Temperature Plasma Science and Technology
- Plasma and Process Diagnostics
- Plasma-Surface Interactions
- Physics and Chemistry of Micro- and Nanostructure Fabrication
- Novel Materials
- Plasma wall interactions for fusion plasmas
Plasma Theory Group
THz Gyrotron Laboratory -- Granatstein, Nusinovich, Romero-Talamás, Rodgers
- High power gyrotron design and construction at submillimeter wavelengths
- Plasma spectroscopy of air breakdown
- Remote detection of concealed radioactive materials
