The Department of Physics

• The humidity characterisation and stabilisation of local timber.
• Modification of Trinidad Lake Asphalt by Air-Blowing.
• Thin Film: The transport, optical, mechanical and magnetic properties of metallic, multilayer, alloy and superconducting thin films.
• Ceramics and Refractories: Development of ceramics and refractories for a wide range of applications using regional raw materials. Current research includes characterisation of raw materials, compositional studies, mechanical testing, X-ray and DTA Analyses, Micro-structure/property relationship and slip casting.
• Grease lubricants.

• Recordings of mass potentials as well as signals from neurons to determine the manner in which the brain with its neural network functions.
• EEG Studies.
• Blood flow studies for photoplethysmography.
• Magnetocardiography using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID).
• Nuclear medicine studies using radio pharmaceuticals.

Extragalactic Astronomy
Theoretical Astronomy

Statistical analysers and model building in areas of large scale structure of the universe and studies of quasars.

Observational Astronomy

This project utilises the 40-cm Meade Telescope on the Natural Sciences Building Rooftop. It is in conjunction with Tuorla Observatory in Finland. Studies involve monitoring the variability of BL Lac objects

Solar Energy Studies

The design, construction and testing of low and high temperature flat plate collectors for use with:

• Solar crop dryers
• Solar air-conditioners, refrigerators and solar powered heat engines
• Solar timber dryers

This area of research is done as a joint effort with other departments.

Earth Materials Studies

Various aspects of Mineralogy and Petrology of Trinidad & Tobago including resources of the continental shelf.

• Environmental monitoring with respect to sound and aerosols in certain work environments.
• Use of sea surface temperatures for the Caribbean region in environmental studies.
• Climate change studies.

• Theoretical modelling of entangled states of light, optical parametric oscillators, squeezed states.
• Applications of entangled states in quantum imaging, quantum communication and quantum computing.

• Development of fibre optic sensors sensitive to diverse environmental and other measurands such as temperature, strain, seismic, and chemical.
• Transceivers for use in photoplethysmography.
• Steelpan analysis via optoelectronics.
• Fibre Optic Lasers.
• Communications.
• Robotics.

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