News
Aug 13
Robert Lewis-Swan contributes to Science article
Robert Lewis-Swan, an assistant professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University...
Apr 16
HLD students win first prize at Undergraduate Research Day presentation
HDL undergraduate students Cora De Francesco and Julianna Voelker were selected as First Prize winners in the Multidisciplinary Research category at the 2021 Undergraduate Research Day....
Mar 16
Joseph Choi & Kellen Lawson awarded Bullard Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Joseph Choi & Kellen Lawson are recipients of a 2021-2022 Bullard Dissertation Completion Fellowships from OU's Graduate college. The fellowship will provide Joseph &...
Mar 04
A blazing nearby super-Earth
A hot super-Earth in our neighbourhood promises to be a suitable candidate to test rocky planet atmosphere models. During the recent two and a half...
Dec 10
Amber Roepe selected for APS Division of Particles and Fields Ethics Advisory Committee
This past summer, the American Physical Society’s (APS) Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) formed the Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC). The...
Featured Research: Valley Photovoltaics: Towards the Realization of Ultra-High Efficiency Solar Cells
Experimental condensed matter physicists in the Department of Physics at OU have developed an approach to circumvent a major loss process that currently limits commercial solar cells to conversion efficiencies less than 30 %. In this new approach, recently published in the journal Nature Energy, members of the Photovoltaic Materials & Devices Group led by Dr. Ian Sellers along with theorists at Arizona State University (David K. Ferry), have demonstrated…
