**William Bailey, Materials Science and Engineering**
Nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
**Katayun Barmak, Materials Science and Engineering**
Processing and structure (crystal structure and microstructure) relationships to electrical and magnetic properties of metal films; developing transmission electron microscopy automated orientation imaging techniques that can be applied to the study of nanostructured materials; use of differential scanning calorimetry for the study solid state reactions and phase transformations in thin films
**Latha Venkataraman, Applied Physics**
Single-molecule transport and mechanics, electron transport at the nano-scale, x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
**Nanfang Yu, Applied Physics**
Nanophotonics, mid-infrared and far-infrared optics and optoelectronic devices, 2D and 1D designer optical structures, active plasmonics and meta-surfaces integrating gain and nonlinear media, quantum cascade lasers, infrared imaging and spectroscopy, biophysics: perception and control of infrared radiation by insects