Faculty: 28
Staff: 9
Post Docs: 4
Grads: 12
Under Grads: 300
Research Areas:
Solid State Physics;
Optical Spectroscopy;
Materials;
Nanophysics;
Biophysics;
Acoustics;
Facilities:
Facility for Optical Characterisation and Spectroscopy (FOCAS.dit.ie);
Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics (IEO.dit.ie)
'There is no inductive method which could lead to the fundamental concepts of physics. Failure to understand this fact constituted the basic philosophical error of so many investigators of the nineteenth century.'