感兴趣的领域包括半导体和绝缘体中缺陷的光学和电子特性，无序固体的集体动力学，铁电体和超导晶体中的结构相变，有机分子晶体，激子动力学，单重态-三重态转换，以及一般而言，电子物理和光电器件，物质的量子物理学，场及其在纳米尺度，表面，界面和异质结构的相互作用，低维材料中的新兴物理学，强相关的电子系统，物质的拓扑相，非常规的超导电性以及经典和量子博士课程包括一组核心课程，其中包括一些高级研究生课程，这些课程提供了从长远来看非常重要的物理学广泛背景，与学生研究领域相关的专业课程以及博士学位论文的研究。在其他机构从事
Activities span from molecular materials organic and inorganic semiconductors, wide bandgap semiconductors, point defects, rare earth doping, and ferroelectrics. Exciton dynamics in molecular crystals and organic semiconductors, including singlet exciton fission and triplet exciton fusion, is studied via pump and probe spectroscopy and fluorescence dynamics (Biaggio). Other techniques include nonlinear optical spectroscopy (Biaggio) and infrared optical spectroscopy under application of hydrostatic pressure, and magnetic fields (Stavola). Point defects in insulating materials with ferroelectric domain walls and other dopants, excitation processes of rare earth in wide band gap semiconductors, formation dynamics of single crystals in glass (Dierolf). For Defects in semiconductors, current interest is in defect complexes that contain light- element impurities such as H, C, O, and N, where vibrational spectroscopy and uniaxial stress techniques are used to elucidate microscopic properties (Stavola, Fowler). Other topics include Raman and neutron scattering, dielectric and ultrasonic spectroscopies, collective vibrational dynamics of disordered ferroelectrics and glasses (Toulouse).