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Researchers build first ‘microwave brain’ on a chip
Cornell Engineering researchers have developed a low-power microchip they call a “microwave brain,” the first processor to compute on both ultrafast data signals and wireless communication signals by harnessing the physics of microwaves.
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Fix discovered for elusive gallium-oxide contact problem
Cornell researchers have uncovered a microscopic layer of carbon contamination, often left behind by air exposure and fabrication techniques, that impairs electrical flow in devices made with gallium oxide. They also found a solution.
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![Doctoral students Amir Amhaz, left, and Connor Davis work in the Ultrafast Phenomena, Ultrafast Technologies and Nonlinear Optics laboratory led by Jeffrey Moses, Ph.D. ’07, associate professor in Cornell Engineering’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics.]()
Research at risk: Advancing ultrafast lasers for national defense
A Cornell Engineering team was on the cusp of significant progress developing an advanced laser useful for military and civilian applications, but a stop-work order prevented final experiments from proceeding.
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Two doctoral students awarded DOE fellowships
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LASSP/AEP Seminar: Chaitanya Murthy (Rochester)
A modified interferometer to measure anyonic braiding statistics A major advance in the study of topological quantum phases of matter has been achieved through the first direct measurements of the fra…
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Controlling the spatiotemporal quantum noise of light Noise presents a fundamental limit to the precision of sensitive measurements made using light. Interactions between photons mediated by nonlinea…
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