Physics and Engineering Physics

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...]

The Center for Quantum Control at Stevens Institute of Technology

November 10, 2008

With the different backgrounds of its five faculty members, the Stevens Center for Quantum Control has all the knowledge for developing a new quantum device right in its own building. Since the Center’s inception in 2004, the separate pieces of the research puzzle are starting to come together. “We expect a big leap forward this year,” according to one of the researchers. “The key to any new scientific discovery is control,” said Rainer Martini, assistant professor of Physics. “And the new development in physics will come from control of quantum particles, such as photons and electrons.” Martini is [Read more...]

Profs. Shi (ME), Choi (ME), Fisher (ME), Yang (ME), and Strauf (PEP) awaded NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant

July 1, 2008

NSF ECCS-0821606 MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Etcher for Nano/Micro Device FabricationProf. Yong Shi and co-PIs Chang-Hwan Choi, Frank Fisher, and EH Yang (Mechanical Engineering) and Stefan Strauf (Physics and Engineering Physics) were awarded an MRI grant to enable the purchase of an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Etcher for nano/micro device fabrication. The requested ICP etching system will greatly augment existing micro/nano fabrication capabilities within the MicroDevices Laboratory (MDL) at Stevens. Research projects directly benefiting from the requested system include: 1). Nano and micro devices for sensing, communications and medicine; 2) Single-electron carbon nanotube memory devices; 3) [Read more...]

Dr. Whittaker: Senior Faculty Fellow for ONR-ASEE

April 4, 2008

Recently, Dr. Edward Whittaker from the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics was appointed a Senior Faculty Fellow to the 2008 ONR-ASEE Summer Faculty Research Program. Dr. Whittaker will be a guest researcher at the Naval Research Lab in Washington (see http://chemistry.nrl.navy.mil/6180/index.php) where he will work on development of laser spectroscopic methods for analysis of fire suppression for the Navy. [Read more...]

Stevens professor's research is based on carbon nanotube quantum dots

March 24, 2008

HOBOKEN , N.J. -- Eui-Hyeok Yang, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has received a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for nanoelectronics research based on carbon nanotube quantum dots. Yang will serve as the Principle Investigator on the project, titled, “ Ultra-High-Speed Single Electron Memory Devices based on Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots.” “New analog and digital electronic devices based on single electron behavior are considered strong candidates to replace silicon transistors in future [Read more...]