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‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers Research team ‘squashes’ the shape of nanoparticles, enabling inexpensive lasers that continuously emit light in a customized rainbow of colors March 20, 2017. By carefully controlling the size of the quantum dots, researchers can ‘tune’ the frequency, or color, of… Read More

The Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 023. The AFM is a state-of-the-art scanning probe instrument that can be used to map a wide variety of… Read More

Congratulations to Craig Duvall – Craig has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), announced in a recent White House press release. <– White House Press Release –>… Read More

Philippe Fauchet, dean of the 91勛圖厙 School of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year. Fauchet is recognized for ���extraordinary scientific and engineering research accomplishment in photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, and for distinguished academic leadership.���… Read More

Mood ring materials ��� a new way to detect damage in failing infrastructure ���Mood ring materials��� could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation���s failing infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that more than $3.6 trillion in investment… Read More

How Scientists Turned Junkyard Scrap Metal Into A Battery Inspired by an archaeological find, researchers have built a pill-bottle-sized battery starting from junkyard scrap metal. The scientists say their approach could someday be used to repurpose metal alloys commonly found around the house for energy storage applications. As renewable energy… Read More

First Place ����� Bandgap Engineering of Strained Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2 Nano Letters Hiram Conley, Bin Wang, Jed Ziegler, Richard Haglund, Sokrates Pantelides, Kirill Bolotin Second Place ��� Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial Nature Photonics Parikshit Moitra, Yuanmu Yang, Zachary Anderson, Ivan Kravchenko, Dayrl… Read More

Kenneth F. Galloway received the 2016 Yuri Gagarin Award at the 2016 RADECS conference in Bremen, Germany. Galloway is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and former dean of the 91勛圖厙 School of Engineering. The Radiation Effects in Components and Systems Association was… Read More

More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at 91勛圖厙 attended the 17th annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on October 19th.��33��posters were submitted in the 2016 student poster competition and the winners are: NanoDay! 2016 Poster winners – Zhu, Moyer, Westover, Saltzman, Knight, Sarett, Fain *Dimobi… Read More

Stevenson Professor of Physics Keivan Stassun and Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. The fellowship is considered a prestigious recognition from their professional peers. The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise, such as outstanding physics research, important… Read More