Physics and Engineering Physics

Professor Stefan Strauf Publishes Two News & Views Articles in Nature Journals

March 12, 2010

Professor Stefan Strauf, the director of NanoPhotonics Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been recently invited by Nature Photonics and by Nature Physics to contribute News & Views articles, which are published in the March and April issues, respectively. The News & Views section provides a forum in which scientific news can be communicated to a wider community spanning disciplines from fundamental physics and optics to photonics technology. Such an invitation from these prestigious journals comes as recognition of Prof. Strauf's contributions and expertise in the emerging fields of Semiconductor Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics. In his News & [Read more...]

Enterprise Development & Licensing Launches New Website - Implements Technogenesis II

February 11, 2010

Stevens Institute of Technology is proud to announce the launching of the Enterprise Development & Licensing website. Edwin A. Stevens founded the University in 1870 on the basis of pioneering research and entrepreneurship. Today, that focus is stronger than ever, and the Enterprise Development & Licensing group aims to take innovation to the next level by spinning out new startup companies based on Stevens innovative technologies and to provide students with real-world experiences designed to build tomorrow’s technology leaders that will help bring high-tech manufacturing back to the United States. In addition to starting several new companies [Read more...]

Stevens Alumni Are Among the Most Highly Paid Professionals

January 19, 2010

Stevens Institute of Technology is a leader in research development and has become a key provider of knowledge in areas such as nanotechnology, systems engineering, and security development. The University also thrives on an entrepreneurial environment that spawns creativity and insight which efficiently makes use of this technology. These core abilities, combined with challenging academic programs, world class laboratory facilities and renowned faculty help pave the way for graduates to have extremely successful careers, and new statistics show just how lucrative this can be. According to the PayScale College Salary Report, Stevens Alumni have enjoyed a median starting [Read more...]

Alfred M. Mayer - Pioneering Acoustics and the Invention of the Topophone

December 14, 2009

Alfred M. Mayer, Distinguished Physics Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology from 1871 – 1897, was the first to devise methods to measure the intensity of sound by nonelectrical means. He used the term “pendulum vibration” for simple harmonic motion, and his experiments with ticking clocks and soundproofed rooms show that one sound could be obliterated with a second lower-frequency sound. He was also the first to discover the phenomenon of masking, in which a lower pitched sound could obliterate a higher-pitched sound even if the latter was intense. Highlighted in the July 3, 1880 issue of Scientific [Read more...]

ICE Blog Launched on Research Enterprise Website!

October 2, 2009

Stevens Institute of Technology is happy to announce the launching of their new Inventiveness, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Blog! As a part of the Research Enterprise website, ICE blog will highlight innovative research and educational opportunities within the University. The goal of ICE blog is to provide an in-depth look at some of the unique research being done by our faculty, complete with media, professor and student insights. Many of the research projects that our faculty study are on the leading edge of technology innovation; our students are surrounded by incredible learning opportunities and gain critical experience for a successful [Read more...]

Physics Department Launches New Website!

August 14, 2009

Stevens Institute of Technology would like to announce the launching of the new Physics & Engineering Physics website. As an integral part of the School of Engineering and Science, the Physics department is on the forefront of new technology development, groundbreaking research and outstanding academic programs. "The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics maintains a solid and vibrant educational and research program that focuses on the Center for Controlled Quantum Systems (CCQS) - a cross-disciplinary research center involving collaborations between multiple research groups in the fields of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, semiconductor photonics, quantum optics, and quantum [Read more...]

Stevens faculty release study on free-space optical communication in Optics Express

March 17, 2009

Paper shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect [Read more...]

Reading the Waters: Dr. Stamnes Takes a Satellite's Eye-View

February 23, 2009

Physicist Knut Stamnes sits at his computer, staring at the riotous swirl of glowing green, blue, orange, and yellow on his screen. This striking image could be an abstract painting, with bright hues sitting amidst a sea of black, but it’s not. It is actually a data map of the Santa Barbara Channel, with the solid black background depicting land and the sea flowing with color. This data quantifies the chlorophyll and dissolved or floating inorganic matter such as silt, clay or sand in these waters. High chlorophyll levels may indicate an overgrowth of the algae that sits at the [Read more...]

Dr. Ting Yu's research featured in latest issue of Science magazine

January 30, 2009

Article looks at new developments in the dynamical behavior of quantum systems An article co-authored by Dr. Ting Yu, an [Read more...]

Professor Malinovskaya's Research Featured in Optics Letters

November 15, 2008

In a recent publication in the high impact journal Optics Letters, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Associate Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence. Controlling coherence can overcome current barriers in a variety of fields, from quantum computing to molecular selective bio-imaging. Coherence is a natural phenomenon where molecules exist in a superposition of states. “In condensed phase, molecules interact with environment, for example, with water molecules. This interaction increases complexity of the energy distribution causing molecules to lose their quantum properties, such as coherence, faster than in the gas phase,” [Read more...]