Master of Science [M.S] [Physics] From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

State-of-the art equipment for graduate students’ experimental research in optics and condensed matter physics is provided in the physics department. 

The equipment includes optical, electronic, and cryogenic instruments, surface science techniques and materials growth equipment. 

Examples are Atomic Force Microscopy, Auger Electron Spectroscopy, Ellipsometry, High-Resolution Low Energy Electron Diffraction, Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction, X-Ray Crystallography, and Super-Resolution Microscopy. 

Also available for research are terahertz radiation sources and ultrafast laser systems. 

Students engage in absorption, light scattering, and photoluminescence spectroscopy using systems operating from the terahertz frequency band to the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum.