Department of Applied Physics

The department of Applied physics has structured its research programs around a portfolio of research strengths. Research in these focus areas is conducted by small and flexible research groups. These are:

• Functional Materials
• Physics of Nanostructures (FNA)
• Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics (PSN)
• Molecular Materials and Nanosystems (MMN)
• Theory of Polymers and Soft matter (TPS)
• Molecular Biosensors for Medical Diagnostics (MBx)

• Plasma physics and Radiation Technology:
• Coherence and Quantum Technology (CQT)
• Elementairy Processes in Gas discharges (EPG)
• Plasma and Materials Processing (P&MP)
• Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion (FUSION)

• Transport Physics:
• Low-Temperature Physics (LTE)
• Mesoscopic Transport Phenomena (MTP)
• Turbulence and Vortex Dynamics (WDY)
• Transport in Permeable Media (TPM)