Recent News

11/02/2020

New collaboration to break ground — by breaking symmetries

Department: Applied Physics

A new generation of materials, engineered at the microscopic level, is poised to bring major advances to wireless communications, biomedical research, laser technologies, energy research, and...

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10/13/2020

Hong Tang Named Fellow of OSA

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

Prof. Hong Tang has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious Optical Society (OSA).

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10/12/2020

Researchers Create a Single-Molecule Switch – a Step Toward Ever-Smaller Electronics

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule electret - a device that could be one of the keys to molecular computers.

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10/12/2020

AP Alums Win National Society Awards

Department: Applied Physics

Two Applied Physics graduate student alums, Irfan Siddiqi and Elie Track, were recently selected for prestigious awards by national societies.

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10/08/2020

Mochrie Named Allen Distinguished Investigator

Department: Applied Physics

Simon Mochrie, PhD, professor of physics and of applied physics, and Megan C. King, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, have...

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09/17/2020

SEAS Welcomes New Faculty

Department: Applied Physics, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For the new semester SEAS abounds with new faculty, new research and new collaborations.

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08/26/2020

Yale scientists and engineers to help lead national quantum center

Department: Applied Physics

Yale will play a major role in a new, national center for quantum research announced Aug. 26 by the White House and the United States Department of Energy.

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08/12/2020

Yale quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat

Department: Applied Physics

Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger's cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the...

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08/04/2020

Yale Researchers Part of New NSF-Funded Quantum Center

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

Yale University is among the core partners of the new Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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07/16/2020

Applied Physics joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science

Department: Applied Physics

In celebration and acknowledgment of their long intellectual and working history at Yale, the Department of Applied Physics (AP) and the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) have...

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06/29/2020

A Race to Solve the COVID Protein Puzzle

Department: Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Among the many unknown factors in the science of COVID-19, one involves the structures of the proteins that make up the exterior of the coronavirus. A coronavirus particle has multiple proteins,...

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03/12/2020

Ahn Named Materials Research Society Fellow

Department: Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Charles Ahn, the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).

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02/26/2020

Yale to explore new building for quantum research and engineering

Department: Applied Physics, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Following a key recommendation from a major university report on Yale’s science priorities, the university will consider developing a state-of-the-art building that is intended to transform the...

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10/07/2019

‘Picoscience’ and a plethora of new materials

Department: Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades, the ones that will change daily life, may come from new materials so small they make nanomaterials look like lumpy behemoths.

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08/05/2019

Peter Schiffer named the Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics

Department: Applied Physics

Peter E. Schiffer, recently appointed the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics, is an international leader in experimental condensed matter physics, specializing in the study of...

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