There's room in materials, optics, biophysics, and now nano stuff (the Quake lab at caltech- http://thebigone.caltech.edu/quake/index.html - I toured it and it rocked my world. In my opinion, this stuff will only get bigger). All of which can be found in physics departments and also tucked in medical schools and chemistry departments too.
Some programs don't dig on people who intend to work on that stuff, others do.
