News: AEP
Selected news pieces highlighting accomplishments of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics faculty, students and alumni.
Cornell receives nearly $3.5M in federal push for quantum information research
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
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
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?
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
Professor Lois Pollack discusses x-ray free electron lasers in this podcast by c&en Read more
Logan Wright, Ph.D. '18 receives Tingye Li Prize
The prize is awarded through the Optical Society Read more
Electron microscope detector achieves record resolution
A group led by applied and engineering physics professor David Muller has achieved a record for electron microscopy resolution, using a device developed at Cornell by professor Sol Gruner. Read more
Married physics researchers share lab, students and the joy of discovery
Married researchers Jie Shan, professor of applied and engineering physics in the College of Engineering, and Kin Fai Mak, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, are experts on atomically thin materials and share a lab in the Physical Sciences Building. Read more
AEP Graduate Student Kayla Nguyen awarded $15,000 “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Prize
Kayla Nguyen, '18 was awarded the $15,000 2018 “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her inventive work in helping to develop new electron microscopy techniques. She developed software, tested and demonstrated a new type of scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) camera, called an Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector (EMPAD). The EMPAD camera sensor was based on x-ray detector technology pioneered by the Gruner research group in the Physics department. The Muller and Gruner research groups collaborated to adapt the technology for use on an electron microscope. For this project... Read more