Multifunctional Materials Integration Research News

Opto-Electrical Converter Allows Communications Systems to Maintain Stable and Accurate Microwave Signals Over Long Distances

NIST research team converts high-performance signals from optical clocks into microwave signals for modern electronic systems.

Team’s Fabrication Process Achieves Long-Wavelength Sensitivity, Ultra-Low Noise and Design Flexibility

The team’s low-noise, two-micrometer avalanche photodiode enables higher-power operation that is eye-safe.

Nature Communications Publishes UVA and Peking University’s Innovation in Microcombs

Researchers demonstrate the broadest microcomb spectral span ever recorded.

Platform Enhances Functional Properties and Affordability of Materials for Next-Gen Devices

Nature and Nature Nanotechnology publish papers extending Lee's seminal research in epitaxy.

Multi-institutional Team Achieves Fast, Flexible and Accurate Calibration of Radio Telescope Receivers

The team achieved system calibration with a compact multi-functional materials micromachined chip that can be easily implanted in the heart of the receiver.

Kyusang Lee Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant to Build the Equivalent of a Human Eye and Its Visual Cortex

Device promises to be 1,000 times more efficient in computing than current technology.

Funding Supports Modeling and Measurement of Digital Alloys Used to Fabricate Avalanche Photon Detectors

A $500,000 NSF research grant adds to the team’s modeling and measurement work over the next three years.

Endowments Will Support Faculty Recruitment and Retention, Ph.D. Fellowships and Strategic Initiatives

Alumnus Greg Olsen credits his materials science and engineering faculty mentor, William A. Jesser, for launching his career and inspiring his historic contribution.

Patrick Hopkins, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, has been selected for the U.S. Defense Science Study Group, a program bringing together top American scientists and engineers to address national security challenges.

Breakthroughs in Low Light and Long Wavelength Detection Bring Quantum Technology Closer to Reality

Research group pushes boundaries in quantum information and quantum computing.