The State Layout of Experimental Physics

  • Astronomy
  • Condensed Matter
  • High Energy
  • Bio Physics
  • Photonics

Astronomy

  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Astrobiology
  • Planetary Science

Better telescopes

Size, location.

Condensed Matter

Formerly Solid Sate

"the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional lattice, such as diamond, and amorphous materials in which atomic position is more irregular, like in glass."

Low Dimensional Systems

https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dulab/realhallbarpic1.jpg

  • Quantum Hall
  • Nanotubes
  • Graphene

Materials Science

Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Atomic level control over materials

Bose-Einstein

Engels Lab

High Energy

aka Particle Physics

  • Standard Model

ATLAS (CERN)

STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Biophysics

https://ipst.umd.edu/graduate-programs/biophysics

Photonics

Instrumentation

RSI →

  • Electronics Measurements/Circuits
  • Data acquisition
  • Microscopy
  • Spectroscopy
  • Vacuum Technology
  • Machine Shop/Maker Spaces
  • Magnets (big ones)
  • Wet lab
  • Nanofab
  • Heating and Cooling