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The Department of Physics' project and master thesis proposals are published here.

Video from the Department's information meeting about the master possibilities [2017]

The proposals are relevant for the following programmes #

• Master of Science in Physics
• Applied Physics and Mathematics (master's degree programme, 5 years)
• Nanotechnology (master's degree programme, 5 years)
• Natural Science with Teacher Education
• Innovative Sustainable Energy Engineering (ISEE), study track Solar Cell Systems and Materials (Joint Nordic Master's Degree Programme, 2 years)

About Specialization Project at the Department of Physics #

• Specialization project at the Department of Physics [Norwegian]
  - only relevant for 5 year's programmes and ISEE

Master's Thesis at the Department of Physics #

• Writing your master's thesis

How is the Master's Thesis assessed? #

• Assessment Guidance for Master's Thesis at the Department of Physics

Project and thesis proposals from the Department's research divisions #

Applied Physics #

• Atmospheric and Environmental Physics (several topics) | contact: Patrick Espy
• Mass transport in laser-heated semiconductor microwires | contact: Alex Hansen
• From statistical distribution of the two-phase system to the overall permeability | contact: Alex Hansen
• Geologic Process Modeler | contact: Alex Hansen
• Modeling of diagenesis in carbonate rock from flow through porous media of reactive fluids | contact: Alex Hansen
• Chiral-plasmonics | contact: Morten Kildemo
• Experimental characterizationof hyper lensing properties of self assembled plasmonic hyperbolic metamaterial | contact: Morten Kildemo
• Development of Spectroscopic (Mueller Matrix) Scatterometer | contact: Morten Kildemo
• Development of Spectroscopic Mueller Matrix Imaging Microscope | contact: Morten Kildemo
• Manufacture and optical characterization of array of core shell particles | contact: Morten Kildemo
• TBA | contact: Turid Worren Reenaas
• Further development of advanced Er- and Tm- fiber lasers for positioning and remote sensing applications; test of prototype system with an eyesafe 1550 nm Er+ Fiber laser technology | contact: Irina Sorokina
• Broadband Cr:ZnS waveguide light sourse | contact: Irina Sorokina
• Novel graphene-based saturable absorbers for mode-locked laster | contact: Irina Sorokina
• Specialty optical fibers for mid-IR photonics | contact: Irina Sorokina

Biophysics and Medical Technology  #

• Multifunctional nanoparticles and ultrasound to improve cancer therapy (several topics) | contact: Catharina de Lange Davies
• Synergistic effects in DNA condensation | contact: Rita de Sousa Dias
• Diffusion of nanoparticles from and across complex interfaces | contact: Rita de Sousa Dias
• Development of novel methodologies to quantify turgor pressure levels in plant cells | contact: Rita de Sousa Dias
• Coarse grained modelling of nanoparticle polymer interactions | contact: Rita de Sousa Dias
• Clinical applications of nonlinear optical microscopy | contact: Magnus Borstad Lilledahl
• Multiparametric functional MRI for radiotherapy response prediction | contact: Kathrine Røe Redalen
• Biomaterials and nanostructured surfaces (several topics) | contact: Pawel Tadeusz Sikorski
• Biological polymers: Mesoscale structure formation and interactions | contact: Bjørn Torger Stokke

Complex Materials #

• Lab for Soft and Complex Matter Studies | contact: Jon Otto Fossum
• Properties of nano-structured surfaces | contact: Steinar Raaen

Condensed Matter Physics #

• Simulaions of Amorphous Selenium Films | contact: Jaakko Akola
• Simulations of Dysprosium Sulphide Films | contact: Jaakko Akola
• Simulations of Aluminium Alloys | contact: Jaakko Akola
• Material Physics (several topics) | contact: Dag Werner Breiby
• TEM Gemini Centre (several topics) | contact: Randi Holmestad og Antonius T. J. van Helvoort
• TEM Japan | contact: Randi Holmestad
• Experimental magnetodynamics and quantum transport | contact: Erik Wahlström
• Quantum wells for silicon based quantum | contact: Justin Wells
• Wells-Nanoscience and chemotherapy | contact: Justin Wells

Theoretical Physics #

• Extreme QCD | contact: Jens Oluf Andersen
• Antiferromagnetic Emergent Electrodynamics | contact: Arne Brataas
• Optical spin transfer torque in two dimensional ferromagnets | contact: Arne Brataas
• A-strongly driven NV center as accurate magnetometer | contact: Jeroen Danon
• The persistent spin helix in the presence of hyperfine interactions | contact: Jeroen Danon
• Frustrated quantum antiferromagnets | contact: John Ove Fjærestad
• Astroparticle Physics | contact: Michael Kachelriess
• Quantum condensed matter theory | contact: Jacob Linder

NTNU's resource centre for STEM-education (for MLREAL) #

•  Fysikk fagdidaktikk (flere oppgaver) [Norwegian] | contact: Rolf Jonas Persson

External proposals in cooperation with the Department of Physics #

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

• Studying the function of neural circuits in zebrafish brain | contact: Emre Yaksi
• Development of infrared fish tracking | contact: Emre Yaksi

Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt 

• Semiconductor Physics and Condensed Matter Theory | contact: Trond Brudevoll
• Pulsede infrarøde fiberlasere [Norwegian] | contact: Magnus W. Haakestad
• Design av en laserkilde for generering av nanosekundpulser i det infrarøde bølgelengdeområdet [Norwegian] | contact: Magnus W. Haakestad
• Optiske parametriske oscillatorer med høy pulsenergi [Norwegian] | contact: Magnus W. Haakestad

Haukeland universitetssykehus

• Masteroppgaver innen røntgen og CT (flere oppgaver) [Norwegian] | contact: Kirsten Hansine Helene Nygaard Bolstad

Justervesenet

• Weighing photons | contact: Jarle Gran
• Photodiodes at cryogenic temperatures | contact: Jarle Gran

SINTEF Energi

• Elektrisk gjennomslag i isolasjonsvæsker [Norwegian] | contact: Øystein Hestad
• Numeriske beregninger på hydrogenflammer ]Norwegian] | contact: Sigurd Sannan
• Complex Network Approaches to Analysing Large Blackouts | contact: Iver Bakken Sperstad
• Rapid depressurization of CO2-rich mixtures | contact: Svend Tollak Munkejord

SINTEF Ocean

• Parallel simulations of transport and mixing in the ocean | contact: Tor Nordam

SINTEF Multiphase Flow Laboratory

• Fluid Density Mapping with X-rays and -rays in Multiphase Pipe Flow | contact: Christian Brekken

St. Olavs hospital

• Parameter estimation in diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging | contact: Peter Thomas While
• Radiation therapy of cervical cancer Optimisation of treatment plans with simultaneous integrated boost | contact: Anne Beate Langeland Marthinsen
• Protonterapi ved Lungekreft | contact: Nina Levin

NTNU Bridge #

• Go to NTNU Bridge to get in contact with external institutions