Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

Welcome to IREAP

We invite you to take a look at our latest research, achievements, discoveries, expertise and events

About IREAP A Message from our Director

Paint Branch Lecture - 2023

Dr. John C. Mather, College Park Professor of Physics and NASA Senior Scientist will speak about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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NSF $2M grant

Carlos Ocampo, Yifei Mo, and Ichiro Takeuchi - NSF has awarded three University of Maryland researchers a $2M grant to advance semiconductor technologies

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Tom Antonsen receives award

Professor Tom Antonsen has been awarded the 2023 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

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Nasa's Parker Solar Probe

James F. Drake and Marc Swisdak - New Study Identifies Mechanism Driving the Sun's Fast Wind -- The research team, co-led by James Drake and Stuart Bale of UC Berkeley, used data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe to explain how the solar wind is capable of surpassing speeds of 1 million miles per hour. They found that the energy released from the magnetic field near the sun’s surface is powerful enough to drive the fast solar wind.

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Dedicated to research from the very beginning

IREAP was established with the purpose to introduce visibility into the world of applied physics with the mission to solve the world's problems by way of research and scientific innovations.

An institute born from two extraordinary colleges

IREAP is a joint institute of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) and A. James Clark School of Engineering (ENGR) and works to support the research and sustained innovations of faculty from both fields.