Magnetic resonance and quantum sensing with applications to problems in physical chemistry; nanoscale spin dynamics; control of quantum systems

Electronic and photonic materials synthesis of compound semiconductor thin films and nanostructures using chemical vapor deposition for electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Theoretical and Applied Fluid Dynamics, Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena, Ocean Renewable Energy and Nonlinear Waves

Computational modelling and clinical translation of spoken language
technologies.

Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, bioenergy, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space

Research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational tools in the modeling and design of complex materials systems for structural and energy related applications. In this context, first-principles-based atomic-scale modeling and simulation methods are applied in studies of the structural, thermodynamic and dynamic properties of bulk phases, surfaces and interfaces.

Partially coherent radiation at short wave-lengths, synchrotrons, undulators, x-ray lasers, processes in hot dense plasmas; x-ray optics, microscopes, and holography; application of element specific x-ray microscopy to studies in the life and physical sciences.

Nuclear Fusion
LBNL/UCB Nuclear Data Group

Thermodynamics of small systems and its applications to both biological and non-biological systems.

Prof. Cao’s primary research
interest is in the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional
materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them using
cross-disiplinary approaches including nanotechnology, metamaterials, and
microelectricalmechanical systems (MEMS).

Computational materials science, with emphases on dislocation dynamics and the growth of thin films.

Development of new algorithms and software for partial differential equations and the application of those algorithms and software to a variety of problems in science and engineering.

Local electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures.

Environmental
monitoring using computer vision

Electronic materials processing, low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), growth and properties of group IV alloys, synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures.

Quantum electronics and short wavelength coherent light sources, with applications to atomic physics, solid state physics and plasma physics.

Conversion of solar energy into chemical energy using hybrid biological nano-structured materials.

Micro/nanoscale transport and processing.

Modern optics and quantum electronic techniques; non-linear phenomena; coherence in electronic materials.

Quantum information applications with trapped ions such as scalable quantum computers, solid-state to AMO interfaces, quantum electronics, and quantum emulation of complex condensed matter systems.

Biophysics theory and experiments. We generally explore the emergence of complex self-organization in proliferating active matter, including the dynamics of adaptation and ecological pattern formation. We study these collective phenomena using theory and simulations, and wetlab experiments using microfluidics, sequencing, and time lapse microscopy.

My research group prepares and studies thin films of novel magnetic, semiconducting, and superconducting materials, particularly amorphous and multilayered materials, which are of interest to spin electronics industries and for LIGO mirror coatings.

Micro/nanofluidics to quantify biomolecules in complex fluids; clinical and point-of-care diagnostics;electokinetic phenomena.

Applied materials research and development including but not limited to additive manufacturing, materials properties and materials processing.

Interface between statistics and data-rich scientific disciplines such as biology; addressing various modeling and analysis challenges from enormous high-dimensional, complex, noisy data generated from rapidly evolving biological technologies.

Interdisciplinary research in nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology.

We apply methods of optical physics to microscopy technologies.

Nano-optics and composite materials

The application of nanoscale metrology with quantum sensors to materials
science, biophysics, and device engineering.

Hydrogen storage in carbon materials and multifunctional solar cells.

Bioengineering approaches to design and create functional nanostructures for regenerative medicine, therapeutics, biosensing and energy generations.

Research interests: atomic physics; quantum computing; quantum sensing and metrology

Interaction between light and condensed matter (solids and liquids) in uncommon regimes, with an eye out for applications in sensing, human-computer interface, and mixed reality.

Surface/Interfacial Science and Micro-/Nanosystems Technology.

Bifurcations and development of chaotic flows, numerical simulation of three- dimensional fluid flow, vortex dynamics, numerical algorithms for large Reynolds number flows, applications to astrophysics and geophysics.

Learning-based analysis and control of uncertain systems, manufacturing systems, materials processing

Molecular phenomena underlying cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, toward understanding their role in human disease.

Characterization of structural materials using synchrotron radiation

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) applied to radio frequency (RF) communication sensor devices.

Our research aims to advance our theoretical understanding of both natural and synthetic soft matter systems by leveraging the tools of statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics and computer simulation.

Instrumentation and detector development for fundamental and applied neutrino physics, including remote reactor monitoring.

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Theoretical and computational mechanics of solids.

Computational fluid and solid mechanics, high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods, fluid-structure interaction, unstructured mesh generation, adjoint-based optimization, parallel computing.

Professor Persson is involved in several materials research areas, such as Li-ion batteries, Mg batteries, photocatalysts, etc.

Power and hierarchy in classrooms and schools and society

Physics of nanoscale devices encompassing full spectrum of Physics, Materials Science and Electrical Engineering. Visit at: www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sayeef.

Research is focused on compact laser-plasma-based acceleration of electrons and ions, and the development of high brightness particle and photon sources.

Computational imaging methods applied to electron microscopy.

Numerical solution at differential equations applied by fluid mechanics, materials sciences, and engineering.

Physics-based Modeling and Simulation

Quantum Information Science, Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits.

Quantum information devices; superconducting qubits, solid-state defects, nanomechanics, and nanophotonics; hybrid quantum systems.

Developing optical or electronics-based on-chip platform technologies for single-cell analysis.

Application of Continuum Mechanics to Problems in Biophysics.

Aziza Suleymanzade is an Assistant Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley. Her group explores hybrid quantum systems that combine Rydberg atoms, superconducting circuits, and nanophotonics. Her research focuses on creating novel quantum interfaces and generating entanglement resources that link these platforms for quantum information processing, communication, and sensing.

Micro and nano-fabrication processes applied to biological tissue culture; integration of diffractive optics with MEMS and microfluids for imaging and lithography.

Fabrication of electronic and medical nanoscale devices via molecular programming.

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Her research focuses on investigating the generation of magnetic fields within fusion conditions as well as the production of collisionless shock waves.

Nanophotonics, quantum optics, materials synthesis, and coherent phenomena in optical nanomaterials for applications in energy and quantum information science.

The research of my group is situated at the nexus of basic and applied nuclear, particle, accelerator, and instrumentation science, encompassing applied neutrino physics for nuclear non-proliferation, development of novel neutron sources and applications to geochronology, nuclear medicine, etc., and innovative accelerator technology and applications to heavy ion fusion and particle astrophysics.

Development of deterministic and Monte Carlo numerical methods in neutral particle transport, and their application in reactor design, nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear medicine and cancer therapy.

The computational imaging lab develops new optical systems that optimize hardware and computation simultaneously, for measuring optical wave-field effects (e.g. phase imaging, coherence imaging, and nonlinear optics).

Laser spectroscopy, nanophotonics and plasmonics.

Investigate the development of preferred orientation materials using high-pressure synchrotron x-rays diffraction techniques.

Theory of atomic and molecular clusters, nanostructures, and high-energy density materials.

Partial differential equations, spectral methods, approximation theory and optimization, with applications in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, materials science and plasma physics.

I am a learning scientist whose work explores computational literacy, with special focus on how young people learn about scientific computing, its power, and its limitations.

Nanomaterials for applications in electronics, photovoltaics, and photonics.

Trapping of anti-matter; free-electron laser x-ray sources; intense laser-plasma interactions; high-energy density physics.

Self-assembly of polymer, peptide, peptidomimetic and nanoparticle for functional soft materials

Silicon nano-photonics, nano-electronics, plasmonics, and the development of components for quantum information processing technology.

Optical Materials and Nanophotonics

Additive manufacturing and processes for micro-electro-mechanical system,
material processing for energy storage and transduction materials

Multiscale representation of materials.

Ultrafast laser and X-ray spectroscopy, study of dynamics and correlations in quantum materials and systems of relevance to energy applications.