An NSF funded research training group program in collaboration with the Rutgers-Newark departments of chemistry, and biological sciences and the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience provides training and research opportunities in frontier interdisciplinary biophysics areas including spectroscopy, signal processing and biomedical instrumentation. Device Physics Professor Kenneth R.Farmer works with his graduate student to perform ultrathin silicon oxide film characterization. Studies at Rutgers-Newark involve sensors for biophysics applications. Optical characterization of materials includes visible and far-infrared spectroscopy, photoconductivity, photoluminescence, spectral emissiometry and thermal modulation spectroscopy. Graduate students Lan Chen and Mahalingam Bhaskaran work in Professor Roland Levy's CVD lab.
Terahertz spectroscopy is used to study ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductors.
Other areas include ultrafast photodetectors, ultrashort nonlinear pulse propagation in optical fibers and planar waveguides, and the ultrafast photophysics of semiconductor and quantum well devices. Professor John Federici and graduate student Denise Chew operate the femtosecond laser. Technology A developing initiative builds upon NJIT's nationally recognized work in infrared imaging technology, applying it to the promising area of infrared solar physics. This area focuses on research on laser-induced physical processes on surfaces. One area of current interest is laser stimulated desorption ad atoms on S.E. ion surface.