“Engineering the Electronic, Thermoelectric, and Excitonic Properties of Two-Dimensional Group-III Nitrides through Alloying for Optoelectronic Devices (B1–xAlxN, Al1–xGaxN, and Ga1–xInxN)”...

Prof. Zhibo Zhang was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of a high-impact journal—Remote Sensing of Environment. Remote Sensing of Environment is a highly-selective journal that...

Matthew Pelton, Associate Professor in the UMBC Department of Physics, was recently elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). Since its founding in 1916, the OSA has been the world’s...

Alexandria Udenkwo has been selected to participate in University System of Maryland’s Louis Stokes Alliance (LSAMP) for Minority Participation 2020 Fall Research Program. This award is to support...

Ellen Gulian is a senior, with a double major in physics and mathematics, and a minor in computer science. She is a Meyerhoff Scholar (M29), two-time URA Scholar, and LSAMP Scholar. What...

A group of researchers led by Prof. Hinczewski and Prof. Scott from the Case Western Reserve University have demonstrated that quantum control techniques can be applied to evolutionary dynamics....

Prof. Sebastian Deffner was recently appointed to the inaugural Editorial Board of the American Physical Society's newest high-impact journal, PRX Quantum. PRX Quantum is a highly selective, open...

This year we are celebrating 100 Ph.D. degrees awarded by our Department. Dr. Mary Keenan became number 100 on Monday, July 27th! Her dissertation focused on “Investigating the Role of Jet...

“Janus PtXnY2−n (X, Y = S, Se, Te; 0≤n≤2) Monolayers for Enhanced Photocatalytic Water Splitting” Fatih Ersan, Can Ataca Dr. Ataca’s group predicted a new Pt based two-dimensional monolayer...

Undergraduate researcher and recent physics graduate Zack Smith (Class 2020) publishes his first paper. Together with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Pal and Assistant Professor Dr. Deffner, Zack...