News: AEP

Selected news pieces highlighting accomplishments of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics faculty, students and alumni.

Rewritable magnetic patterning: think tiny Etch A Sketch

June 12, 2020By: Syl Kacapyr

AEP Associate Professor Greg Fuchs among the multifaceted team that recently published “ Local Photothermal Control of Phase Transitions for On-Demand Room-Temperature Rewritable Magnetic Patterning” in Advanced Materials. The study demonstrates a technique for writing, erasing and rewriting microscopic magnetic patterns onto a material and has applications for ultrafast computer memory. Read the Cornell Chronicle article: " Rewritable magnetic patterning: think tiny Etch A Sketch." Read more

AEP & ECE collaborate on recent Optica paper on ultra-thin flat lenses

June 8, 2020

Lynden Archer named dean of College of Engineering

June 8, 2020

Muller Continues Working Towards EMPAD Mass Production

May 29, 2020

A recent Cornell Research article explores impressive statistics regarding accomplishments of the Cornell community that are changing the world. The article explores Cornell University's role as one of the top 10 academic innovators in the world according to Reuters News Agency. Cornell also ranked number one in research expenditures among New York State educational institutions, according to the National Science Foundation. The work of AEP Professor David Muller is highlighted as one of these projects. Muller continues his decades-long development of electron microscope pixel array detector... Read more

New microscopy tool sheds light on adult zebrafish brain

May 5, 2020By: Krishna Ramanujan

Watch an animation of a three-dimensional reconstruction of the zebra fish brain. Read more

Cornell researchers stacked two atomic monolayers of a semiconductor – tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide – to create a moiré superlattice that acts as a simulator for the Hubbard model. This simplified system enables the team to better understand the essential physics of many interacting quantum particles.

Model simulator helps researchers map complex physics phenomena

March 18, 2020By: David Nutt

A Cornell-led collaboration has created a model simulator from overlapping ultrathin monolayers and have used it to map a longstanding conundrum in physics. Read more

Quantum Computing

February 19, 2020By: Jackie Swift

You may have noticed quantum computing cropping up in the news a lot lately. Last October Google announced they’d pulled off quantum supremacy when their prototype quantum computer solved a problem they claimed would take a classical supercomputer 10,000 years to solve. Meanwhile, the National Science Foundation kicked off its Quantum Leap Challenges Institutes program which will fund large-scale projects in quantum science, and the U.S. Department of Energy announced $625 million in funding for centers to advance quantum information science. It’s easy to see why there’s so much interest... Read more