News: AEP

Professor Jie Shan and Associate Professor Kin Fai Mak co-author recent paper on a new real-time imaging technique that is fast and sensitive enough to observe elusive critical fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets. This technique allows researchers to control the fluctuations and switch magnetism via a “passive” mechanism that could eventually lead to more energy-efficient magnetic storage devices. The team’s paper, “ Imaging and Control of Critical Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Magnets,” published June 8 in Nature Materials. Learn more in the Cornell Chronicle article here. Read more

Fuchs’s group demonstrates spin resonance can be driven solely by acoustics. eliminates need for the magnetic antenna. The team’s paper, “ Acoustically Driving the Single Quantum Spin Transition of Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers,” published May 27 in Physical Review Applied. Read more

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

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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

The Bernard J. Couillaud Prize "provides the opportunity for an early-career professional (1-5 years post highest degree) to pursue a compelling and innovative project that has the potential to make a meaningful and positive impact on the science and applications of ultrafast lasers. One early career professional will receive a merit-based award which includes a $20,500 USD prize and $5,000 USD in travel expenses. The goal is to support individuals in the area of ultrafast photonics for the purpose of providing dynamic and rigorous research with a state of the art approach to solving difficult... Read more

For 32 years the Cornell chapter of the national group called Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) has been hosting an on-campus event packed full of hands-on science activities for 7th through 9th grade girls. When the Cornell campus closed in March, the organizers had to change gears very quickly and create the 33rd annual EYH event as a strictly online happening. Berit Goodge, Ph.D. student in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP) and conference chair of the event, got busy. “Typically, we bring about 500 middle school girls plus parents and teachers to campus for one day for EYH,”... Read more

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

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