News
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...
Mar 25
Physics & Astronomy Offices are Closed
In order to comply with recent public health statements from our Provost, in consultation with OUHSC and the Centers for Disease Control, our departmental offices...
Aug 26
CQRT hiring multiple faculty: applications due by October 20
The Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma (OU) invites applications for five faculty appointments in the areas of...
Jul 29
Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
CUWiP, also known as Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, is an annual conference series that has been running since 2006. Since its start, conference participation...
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…
