News and Events:
- 05/29/12 - Joint AFRL/WSU Seminar:
Writing graphene on SiC using a laser beam under ambient conditions and graphene/Si heterostructures
Yong Zhang (UNC Charlotte)
3:00pm - FH204 - 2012 CoSM Award for Outstanding Teaching: Dr. Steve Adams '87 (adjunct category)
- 2012 CoSM Outstanding Alumni Awardee:
Dr. Randall Wagner, M.D. '80
- WSU Physics Research in the News
Read what an M.S. student did - This Month in Physics - March 1913:
March 6, 1913: Bohr describes his model of atom to Rutherford
APS News 21(3) (2012)
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Welcome
The Physics Department at Wright State University is a medium size department, with around 40+ majors, 20+ MS students, 15 faculty and 4 research professors.For undergraduate students, we provide a wide variety of programs in physics preparing them for either graduate school or for careers. Graduate students can choose either a Master's of Science (Physics) or a Master's in Teaching (Physics), or an interdisciplinary PhD (Biomedical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Engineering).
The major research areas of the faculty include atmospheric science, biophysics, geophysics, materials science, nanotechnology, and physics education. They study topics as fundamental as chemical reactions in the atmosphere of Mars to topics with societal impact such as the use of T-rays for full-body scanners at airports.
The Physics Department leads the college, the university, and the country in a variety of measures. For instance,
- three graduate students have received national SMART fellowships from 2009-11 to pursue a PhD degree,
- our four national fellows (an American Geophysical Union fellow, two American Physical Society fellows, an IEEE fellow) is unmatched at WSU and, per faculty, is above some of the largest doctoral programs such as Kansas State University,
- the department has the only endowed chair position in the college,
- our four female faculty, per faculty, is above the national average of women faculty in physics departments,
- the external research funding received by physics faculty over the 2006-11 is tops in the college, averaging over $2.5M a year,
- over 25% of the faculty serve on editorial boards of international journals,
- the first ever International Conference on Zinc Oxide was organized at WSU. Zinc oxide is the next generation optical material, with applications ranging from suncreams to DVD lasers.
Our research programs are associated with the Institute for the Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), the Semiconductor Research Center at WSU and the department houses the WeEXCEL center in science education.
Click the links on the left for additional information on any of the above or contact us.
