News: AEP

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

Fine-tuning photons to capture fleeting electron motions

April 1, 2019By: Melanie Lefkowitz

Nature Communications features Shvets Lab photonic research

March 22, 2019

Cornell and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to study ‘disruptive material’ in new center: AFRL-Cornell Center for Epitaxial Solutions (ACCESS)

March 19, 2019By: Syl Kacapyr

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul with professor joel brock in chess facility

Lt. governor returns to proclaim CHESS upgrade complete

January 18, 2019By: Tom Fleischman

The microscope revolution that’s sweeping through materials science

November 26, 2018

Cornell receives nearly $3.5M in federal push for quantum information research

October 23, 2018

Four Cornell researchers have received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a $218 million federal push to advance quantum information science. Read more

Exposing secrets of ‘superbugs,’ bioprocesses continues with NSF grant

September 26, 2018

A five-year, $22.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will continue to develop advanced imaging techniques for biological processes. Read more

Cryo-electron microscopy sheds new light on batteries

August 15, 2018

A collaboration involving researchers from physics and engineering used a new cryogenic microscopy technique to study the solid-liquid interface in lithium-metal batteries. Read more

A Tabletop Magnetic Microscope? Diamonds?

August 2, 2018

The Gregory Fuchs lab is on a quest: Build a tabletop microscope that can image at extremely high spatial and temporal resolutions at the same time. Read more

Listen in on X-ray laser science

July 31, 2018

Professor Lois Pollack discusses x-ray free electron lasers in this podcast by c&en Read more